Comment on Behold, the '98 Ford Aerostar
Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoRecently read or saw in a video, the tire tech hadn’t advanced to the point we really are today.
It sounds funny but they couldn’t make the walls strong enough (and cheap enough) for typical production vehicles like today (if my memory is correct!) that’s why today cars have much “shorter” looking tires
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Interesting! If you run across it again I’d love to see it.
Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sorry, you said wheel but I assumed you were referring to the tires.
I’ll see if I can find it because I found it super interesting as well, haha
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I should have been clearer, I meant the wheel and tire combo. They look like they belong on a much smaller vehicle. And I was alive when this car was new and my memory of it doesn’t look like this lol.