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Are thinner tires generally wider?
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It really depends, generally if you are changing a car out to low profile tyres, you would use a larger diameter and slightly wider rim. It generally hardens the ride, and low-pros and super low profile tyres are a lot more expensive and dont do all that well in snow. Personally, prius is really border line, at the time, there really was not a hell of a lot of incentive to go with it, there really wasnt a big reason, and the other problem is, every few years you have to change out batteries, which costs 5-7grand, and thats on top of your regular maintenance, etc. I was looking into upgrading a prius, but it would cost me around 17K to get it to a car i would like to actually have. turn it into a plug in hybrid with a biodegradable battery pack, a change of the main battery to a biodegradable battery and a carbon fiber roof with a molded in solar module built in. Those would get the car to drive me to work and back on battery power alone and get my average gas mileage to probably around 150 miles/gal, which would actually be appealing... but that would bring the price of the car up to 40k, not the money i could really spend on a car, even today... but certainly something i might be looking into in the future...
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