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Unfortunately tirerack.com is not valid in Europe, would be useful to find something similar.
Yes, it's always good to be specific. So, what suprised me, was that there seems to be no significal difference between aluminium alloy cast wheels and steel alloy pressed in weights. Aluminium/magnesium alloy cast and then forged is obiviously lightest, but they are for racing.
I know basics of feel fitment and bolt patterns, and I use wheel-sizes.com to search for similar wheels from another manufacturers. I'm trying to find 15x5-5,5 rims, offset 45-30 and bolt pattern 4x100 - for Toyota Yaris, but quite common size on smaller cars. So the Mini I mentioned is newer production. Planned 165/65R15 tires on them, propably Kumho Ecowings.
And yes, wheel weight is not very important for fuel efficiency, but wouldn't like to go heavier. In stop and go traffic there could be some difference? Nice and smooth aero wheelhubs are much easier to fit on steel rims, so if those really are not a downgrade, if picked wisely, I'm going to try find ones.
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