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Originally Posted by diesel_john
IMHO wide tires have cost consumers billions of dollars unnecessarily. In fact i would go so far as to call wide tires a conspiracy. With all the money spent on vehicle control from 4WD to stability to compensate for wide tires being worthless in poor traction conditions when it really counts. The only reason cars are safer is because they crash safer. People will drive in over their heads no matter what controls are on the vehicle. Wide tires increase the difference in traction between dry road and poor conditions, thus causing the public to be lawed in to a false sense of security. IMHO
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What you fail to realize is that wide tires reduce the difference in traction between wet and dry roads. Try slapping some 185 wide tires on a new camaro and go drive it in the rain.
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Originally Posted by Varn
I used to have a 1969 Renault 10. It had great all weather traction and wore 135x15 Michelin X tires. Later I had similar great luck with a 1978 R5 which wore 145x13.
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You forgot to mention the 1100cc engine pumping out 40 something HP in a 750kg car. We don't drive tin cans like that anymore. I had both an R8 and R10.