My father
A few Christmases ago when I was still living at home, we woke up to lots of lovely snow and ice.

My father, in the throes of some sort of well played mid-life crisis, had recently imported a brand new and rather flash Subaru Impreza at huge expense from Germany or one of those other weird foreign countries where they live on sausages and cabbage. He had also, somewhat misguidedly and against my better judgement, adorned his new baby (the car, not an actual baby, that'd be weird) with gold hubcaps, but we'll gloss over that.

He gleefully suggested that we take the car out on the ice and see what it could do. Being a teenager at the time, whizzing around on the ice in a fast car sounded like a very good idea to me. Still does, in fact.

We jumped into the shiny blue dad-mobile and raced up the little hill near our house, heading for the huge empty carpark of a factory that was closed for the holidays.

The excitement was mounting as we surveyed the expanse of icy freedom in front of us. We were shivering in our seats with anticipation of a high speed Top Gear stylee ice jaunt as we approached the entrance.

We were mere seconds away from glorious frozen father-daughter stunt driving bonding when my dad skidded on the ice and crashed his beloved Subaru into one of the huge concrete blocks flanking the entrance.

I have never felt so deflated, but I expect it was worse for my dad, having royally fucked the front of his brand new toy.
(clumsyeloquence is a girl, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 23:14, 6 replies)

Hubcaps?

( Sir Pigeon Nipples Did you sit in some sugar?, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 1:31, closed)

Er
The metal bits you put on your wheels for scousers to nick?
(clumsyeloquence is a girl, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 2:41, closed)

alloys?
www.motorspeed.com/sitepix/products/mids/mid_SuperleggaraGold.jpg

apologies for link length
(twiceydrinker hmmm is it pint time?, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 8:57, closed)

I'm not sure
They look slightly different:

images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4HPEB_en___GB240&q=hubcaps

images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4HPEB_en___GB240&q=alloys
(clumsyeloquence is a girl, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 10:53, closed)

Wheel Trims??
They're the (normally silver) plastic disc type things that you clip onto plain steel wheels to make the look nicer.

I'd be very surprised though, to find them on a flash shiny new subaru. They're the kind of thing you get on a poverty-model fiesta.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 12:41, closed)

No
Dude, hubcaps. Everyone knows what hubcaps are, surely?

Subarus have them. Look, here are some (albeit quite different to the ones my Dad had):

www.carpartswholesale.com/cpw/subaru~impreza~hubcaps.html

HUBCAPS. I don't understand, I thought hubcaps were common knowledge.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubcaps

Seriously, I don't know how I can be any clearer. The bits in the holes in the middle of the tyres were gold.

Call them what you will.
(clumsyeloquence is a girl, Sat 22 Dec 2007, 15:18, closed)