Bovensiepen’s forged wheel marries lightness with visual precision
The 20-inch wheel for the 05 GT distils engineering purity into ten elongated spokes, each precisely milled to reduce mass without sacrificing the visual drama that defines a machine built in Buchloe.
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The wheel speaks the language Bovensiepen understands: engineering as art, weight as the enemy of clarity, and every millimetre accounted for. The 20-inch forged wheel arrives on the 05 GT with ten elongated double spokes that create what the atelier calls “exceptional visual depth”. Look closely and the geometry reveals itself not as decoration but as consequence. Each spoke carries precisely milled grooves that serve a single purpose: weight reduction. Unsprung mass diminishes, and in return the car responds with greater agility and a ride of composure that only comes from mechanical honesty.
The finish catches light like dark water. Steel and silver speak across the composition, the Bovensiepen emblem set in its blue circle at the centre like a signature beneath a perfectly engineered drawing. The spokes taper as they radiate outward, a visual echo of the performance they deliver. This is not decoration applied to function; it is function made visible, the sort of thinking that has defined the Buchloe workshop for decades.
The 05 GT itself carries this philosophy through every system. The preliminary specifications suggest an efficiency that feels almost contradictory for a car of this character: combined consumption of 5.3 litres per 100 kilometres with a fully charged battery, 17.0 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometres in electric mode. The engineering runs deep, touching every component, from the suspension geometry that the wheel supports to the hybrid powertrain that makes such economy possible without compromise to the drive. Fine Driving, Bovensiepen calls it, and the wheel is where that precision meets the road.
Imagery courtesy of Bovensiepen (@bovensiepen.automobile).
