Well, I don't know what's out there now. I've had a Thule for about 10 years and it's been transfered from one car to another (mine, at the moment). It carries two bikes with both wheels on. I never could figure out why someone would want to store one of your wheels inside their car. I can understand it if you had a smaller car like a Golf, but people with SUVs and Minivans. It doesn't make much sense.

Anyway, I like mine and haven't had any realy problems. Yeah, the plastic parts have kinda broken on mine, too, but they werent' that useful anyway.