14 minutes ago, Jundis said:

There are, just never been used in a technic model:

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=42716&idColor=95#T=C&C=95

Is there a corresponding steering hub that has pivot in the middle of the rim? Also This is only for wide 3L wheels and even when there would be ones for 2L wheels, they'd still have the pivot away from the middle.

Here's a simple comparison of that: From the left - standard Technic rim, the Creator Expert rim in the middle and my custom 3d printer rim on the right:

With that said, we could still have a steering hub for this type of Creator Expert rim if the hub went over this sticking out axle socket by half stud to have the ball connectors in the middle of the rim. But then the pin axle without friction would be sticking out to the inner side along its attachment pin hole on the hub in a way that it'd reduce amount of space for the steering linkage in that plane and shifting linkage up by one stud to avoid this collision would mean lower steering angle.

Anyway the rim you showed doesn't solve the problem but just mitigates it partially and they could just copy the real design of a basic wheel rim like this:

 

With that said, the car actually has some photos where it has rims that are really closely matching the Technic rims, and we get to a point where we can think about whether the outer look of the rims is more important than how the steering works and how much space need to be additionally left for the steering because of that:

There's a video available here.

 

At 0:42 you can see the green 20 tooth straight clutch gear, which should be a welcome addition to the one from the Airbus. The driveline is basically same as the 42093.

Edited February 19, 20232 yr by Zerobricks

The green gear is also available on bricks and pieces, and i ordered a few.

Also, never knew i would say this one day, but here we are: I love the stickers in this set, which have like a glittery effect on the "75" number.

 

Now I know why there is 75 on there.

 

Looks like its stock, but it is not:)

 

Mini Review online: https://tangerstechnicblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/lego-technic-42153-mini-review.html