The trend for fitting ridiculous, cotton-reel wheels and rubber band tyres is great for the tyre manufacturers as they sell more expensive tyres and for the rim manufacturers as more rims are damaged by kerbing and potholes.
Fashion victims have been persuaded they need these absurd wheels on shopping cars.
It's ridiculous and also noticeable that the rest of Europe does not seem to have fallen victim to this nonsense to the same degree as the UK.
It would help though if current cars weren't so grossly oversized and overweight.
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