09-12-2012, 04:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-2012, 04:38 PM by Pompey306mark.)
That's my point, you just wrote it.
"you take a wheel off of a similar price and age car and i bet it will be similar"
It will be similar because at the time, cars as standard came with 14-15 inch alloys. Not because it makes the car handle better to be on smaller alloys.
Remember the alloys are normally made by an alloy wheel company not peugeot. So they most likely had a whole range of designs they could have chosen from.
PS. I am not fighting that smaller alloys do tend to feel better,
I am just saying, i doubt peugeot sat down and said, do you know what this car would look amazing on a set of 17's, then a handling engineer went, well 15's would be better like the amazing handling 205.
It was most likely decided it was going to go on 15's as that is what was done at the time.
As we know from people with challengers, vortex and more modern alloys they do look good on bigger alloys, but it's a trade off In some people's eyes between looks and handling.
"you take a wheel off of a similar price and age car and i bet it will be similar"
It will be similar because at the time, cars as standard came with 14-15 inch alloys. Not because it makes the car handle better to be on smaller alloys.
Remember the alloys are normally made by an alloy wheel company not peugeot. So they most likely had a whole range of designs they could have chosen from.
PS. I am not fighting that smaller alloys do tend to feel better,
I am just saying, i doubt peugeot sat down and said, do you know what this car would look amazing on a set of 17's, then a handling engineer went, well 15's would be better like the amazing handling 205.
It was most likely decided it was going to go on 15's as that is what was done at the time.
As we know from people with challengers, vortex and more modern alloys they do look good on bigger alloys, but it's a trade off In some people's eyes between looks and handling.