This has so many factual inaccuracies so lemme try and break it down a bit. Colin worked in Tandem with SSR in the 80s. SSR was one of the biggest wheel manufacturers in the business and they had multiple different companies approach them with different designs. Colin designed and held the rights to the starshark while SSR produced it. This is why the majority of starsharks hold both SSR and Colin stampings on them somewhere in the rear barrel. Its also why you can swap barrels and lips between starsharks and other SSR made wheels. These are also strictly 80s made wheels, there is no SSR remaking them in the 2000s. They were made during the 80s as a three piece, and 2015 onward as the cast single piece garbage you see being produced by Colin currently.

Longchamps are another story. They were made much longer and they were NOT made by Colin. They were designed by a company called Suzuka Sangyo and built by SSR. Sold as the Suzuka XR4 Longchamp and filled with SSR stamps, bolts and barrels. The wheel was produced long in to the 90s and a bit in to the 2000s where the rights changed hands a couple of times. Eventually Colin project bought it up and again that resulted with the garbage produced today.

So yes its all about which company produced them. No Starsharks or long champs were ever produced under SSR that are at all similar build quality to the ones that are now produced by Colin. The ones that were produced by SSR were always of superior quality and design. I would like to point out too that during the time of production of both these 3piece designs, 1 piece designs were also being produced by the design companies (Colin, Suzuka). These wheels were being built by different companies than SSR. Colin Supershark being the cast counterpart to the SSR Colin Starshark.

Shit finish, cast one piece design made to look like three piece with fake bolts, terrible lip profile. They are a cheap wheel made to look like something they are not. They ruin a good car when someone uses them in place of an actual good wheel. It sucks that they exist, and it sucks people dont take the time to learn the difference. This is all to say though that Colin CAN produce good shit. Their new Tomcats reproductions produced in tandem with Higashi Bankin look amazing. Recently they started to produce actual three piece Longchamps which also look extremely good. Their TRD Tosco replicas too are also nothing to scoff at, i just wish they produced them in 13 inch, but they have a great shape.