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      08-28-2019, 02:35 PM   #217
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Originally Posted by Obioban View Post
Cars are designed around the performance characteristics of the tires they ship with. Changing the tire absolutely would improve the stopping distances, but you'd no longer have a car properly calibrated for its tires.
Isn't this a BMW NA decision, to have lower performance All-Season tires? You also have a lower top speed limiter as well, don't you?

We don't have that compromise here in the UK, we have OEM performance summer tires and the higher speed limiter.
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