Thread: tire size help.
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      08-31-2013, 10:50 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Bimmer-Bob View Post
Contact patch is contact patch - if you can fit more tire without penalty, why not? The weight savings for going with a 245 vs. a 235 are pretty minimal. I don't understand the statement that the car "sucks with too much tire." Why?
The argument would be that fun is had at the limits. Hence the BRZ/FRS coming with Summer Touring tires instead of Performance Summers.

Not that I think there is a particularly large difference between 235 and 245.
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