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    Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    I can achieve the same effect with a brush and some roofing tar.
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    Image of junkman junkman
    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    The next hot ticket from Kumho will be the 5 series crawler tracks for Hummers in green, red and blue.
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    Find a heavy car with 385s on it, and follow it for a smoooooooth ride.


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    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    People running these things are just BEGGING to pay for a rim job.


    What? Why is everyone looking at me?

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    Could somebody please just wish these into the cornfield?
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    If tire profiles get much lower, Kumho is gonna have to outsource manufacturing to Trojan or Durex
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    Image of Bret Bret
    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    Geez, when will the "appearance racer" crowd go away? Can't these people get into someting legitimately cool like mural covered vans or Raptor pickups?


    I am sick to death of these sort of folks asking me why my car's exhaust is so tiny, or why the wheels are so small.


    They glaze when I answer something like, "It's tuned to my car's displacement and power band, and works very well for what I need it to do - be light and keep the car within sound limits."


    I guess I just don't understand the need to "100K C001, y0!"

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    Image of acarr260 acarr260
    11/04/08

    @Bret: Do they look very confused when you say the phrase "sound limits"?
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    Image of Bret Bret
    11/04/08

    @acarr260: Yeah, but they also confused by the concept of autocross itself; let alone the use of a Miata in any type of competition.


    I do like showing how capable Miatas are at doing burnouts. I call it the "disappearing girly car trick".

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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    At what point do we just start gluing a chunk of tread onto the wheels?


    Oh, wait...


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    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    I don't think these "tyres" will be available in the USA. We will have to wait for the "tires" version...


    I like how they lump together a F430 and a Z06. I guess the idea is to sell a lot of tires to the Z06 owners who can then tell their friends they have "Ferrari grade (TM)" tires!

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    Image of wookie1901 wookie1901
    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    I think the aroma of which they speak is lavender.


    Seriously.

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    Image of six six
    11/04/08

    @wookie1901: It's Glade.
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    11/04/08

    @six: No, it's Gla-de.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    A glued rubber must be as comfortable as these tires, with the advantage that the glued rubber does not puncture and go even to a lower profile.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    I'd like to get tires that smell like patchouli when roasted, thus causing any nearby hippies to implode from the cognitive dissonance.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    As a former tire mounter, I cringe and worry about my fingertips just looking at these.


    Super low-profile tires are a trifecta of misery:

    difficult to get mounted

    + expensive, easily scratched wheels

    + asshole owners

    =

    PITA

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    Image of layabout layabout
    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    I wince when i have to buy 225 width tyres,the very thought of 385's brings me out in a sweat.
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    Image of Amalgamated Stainless Headers, est.1978 Amalgamated Stainless Headers, est.1978
    11/04/08

    In reply to Kumho Launches Ultra-Low-Profile 15-Series Tires
    Might as well get Rhino and Line-X into the business. Just spray a 1/8" coating of truck bedliner onto the outside of the rim and voila!
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