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I'm working from home today so I drove to a coffee shop and can see it out the window. I'm liking them more and more as I look at them. It's amazing how much of an affect the tire size has on the ride and responsiveness. Driving it with the 185/65 vs the 165/80's that were on it, It feels like a completely different car. It feels like it has 10 more horsepower and the grip on the road feels like it doubled. The tiny front tires have also taken away anything resembling a suspension on the front. Every bump rattles through the whole car. Lifting it to change the tires out you see that the suspension naturally has so little travel that once the tires are a low profile there's really nothing left to damper any bumps in the road. Here in potholes-ville Pennsylvania that means a lot of swerving.

All those complaints about the suspension and I have to admit that I was smiling the entire drive here. I really love driving it like this. I'm going to change the front tires out to the 185/65 to match the back but I think that will have limited affect on the suspension but still give it a little more grip with the wider profile and make it look more even. 

Thanks for the positive comments.

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