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Explain the purpose... that cant be beneficial to handling... so its a fad or?

It's a euro look thing. so yes, a fad.

It's not a euro thing. You can see this style setup on more then euro cars. ESP drift cars. So it's no more a fad then rat rod is to 32 Fords. Just a style of car personalization.

Arsenal741 wrote:Explain the purpose... that cant be beneficial to handling... so its a fad or?

Its not beneficial to handling, but it does'nt kill the handling of the car either...

I saw those in euro style car magazines before I saw it anywhere else. Euro as in that's the origins as far as I've ever seen. But yes I agree, it's a stylistic choice, like rat rods, murdered out cars, slammed cars etc.

The reason for the stretched tire started in germany. People wanted wider wheels but there could not be any tire tread outside the wheel well. Hense getting a nice fat rim and puting a smaller tire to fit inside the wheel well will stretch the side wall of the tire. It caught on as a trend just like any other thing done to a car weather its fuctional or not.

I personally like the look

Yeah, thats where it started and come from. I thought he meant as in its a euro fad that will pass or something. Did'nt really make any sense...

o2designs wrote:I swear im like a year and a half ahead of my time.




But then she was like...

the rims are ............................THE SHIZNIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and i member dooose green rims. but still this is the dopeness fre reals dawg

well, isn't there a benefit in stretch as in your tire doesn't roll when the drifters get it sideways or throw your car in hard? less sidewall movement?

Yes. Less scrub time for the tire sidewall to roll( example on drag cars)

It makes handling quicker and more responsive in most cases.

ahh i see maybe ill start the fat tire on small rim combo

Maybe you could start a new fad!!! WHAOO!!

Arsenal741 wrote:ahh i see maybe ill start the fat tire on small rim combo

The truck scene has done it already sorry..