[Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the May 2012 issue of Grassroots Motorsports.]
Why order fun-sized portions when supersizing costs only 9 cents more and contains 3100 more life-sustaining calories—plus a bonus pig haunch? You’d be crazy not to upgrade, right? It’s the American dream.
Maybe bigger isn’t always better. Can upsizing your wheel-and-tire package actually downgrade your car’s performance? We hit the test track to find out.
Past Present
Back in a simpler time we called the 1980s and 1990s, wheels were smaller. We all sat around in silent wonder when they put 16-inch wheels on Corvettes and Camaros, thinking, “Certainly man has reached the physical limits of the wheel-and-tire universe.”
At the time, most of us were running around in our…
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