> I'll never understand this bizarre styling trend for making > massive car wheels with thin little tires
When I was spending my hang-out-online time at a popular VW forum (vwvortex), there were constantly users complaining about how they hit some pothole or other, usually in a big city, and bent their 17+" rim because there was zero cushioning in the tire sidewall, being so low profile. These same users would stretch tires onto very wide rims so that the sidewalls weren't even vertical any more -and- they had ridiculous "poke" (wheel sticking out of the fender well) because of the depth of the rim and the offset required to keep the inside of the tire from being sliced to ribbons by the undercarriage of the car.
I like low-ish profile tires, mostly to keep the speedometer/odometer from being way off due to upsizing from the tiny 13" shopping cart wheels that the car was sold with. But I also like being able to run over a rolled-up newspaper without bending anything or having a blowout.
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