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Old 04-11-2018, 10:22 AM   #27 (permalink)
CapriRacer
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I strongly suspect that the rotating mass of the tire causes an insignificant affect on fuel economy - that even a significantly wider tire barely changes the actual fuel consumption. I suspect this because the car manufacturers continue to go to wider and wider tires.
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