{"id":90,"date":"2009-02-02T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T11:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=90"},"modified":"2023-01-24T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T12:41:08","slug":"black-alloy-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/culture\/black-alloy-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Black Alloys."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/black-alloys.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-91\" title=\"Black on Bentley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/black-alloys.jpg\" alt=\"The Bentley GT Speed is the perfect platform for Automotive darkness.\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s undeniable. Ebony paint jobs with black alloys look cool. It might seem a bit of an affectation, and you might be accused of wanting to play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EXeTwQWrcwY&amp;ab_channel=RottenTomatoesClassicTrailers\">the Dark Knight<\/a>. To roll with black 20s may even summon visions of subtly veiled automotive kinkiness. Context, no doubt, is everything. Try rocking the look on a your average lukewarm hatch, for example \u2013 or fail to to keep the wax clean and mean on the Audi Sportwagon and you&#8217;re likely to fall in everyone&#8217;s estimation. But take up the option on your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1bPPJXU4vVs&amp;ab_channel=carwow\">Bentley GT Speed<\/a> and it adds just the right dash of hooligan chic to your premiership-level pose. The inverse can be true. Back in the day the most desirable girls of Metropolitan Essex aspired collectively to the white-on-white Golf GTi Cabriolet along with power shoulders, teased peroxide and a date with George Michael. Does it follow, then, that white cars equate with femininity and black with all things masculine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black is back &#8211; but what kind of statement do dark alloy wheels make?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,1781],"tags":[1972],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cars","category-culture","tag-culture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Beauty of Black Alloys. - Influx<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Black is back - but what kind of statement do dark alloy wheels make?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/culture\/black-alloy-wheels\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Beauty of Black Alloys. - 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