What Do Your Corvette's Tires Say About You?
Tires are the Skull & Bones society of the automotive world. If you really know about cars then you know what they say about the man behind the wheel.
Pilot Sport Cup 2
The street tire equivalent of a Cuban cigar. You have taste and money to blow. Maybe you track your car, maybe you don’t, but it doesn’t matter. The Pilot Sport Cup is equally at home on the race track as it is on the street and sticks to the road more than a model’s perfume to your Armani suit. This is the tire for the guy who wants the best and knows why Chevrolet uses this as the benchmark. You probably own a humidor and know about Macallan.
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The 200 Tread Wear Guy
You’re a car nerd and definitely do track days or autocross bro. Pouring over data or reading the latest test online is paramount to your decision. Before you go on vacation you weight out the pros and cons. There is nothing funny about this article. Tires are serious business. You can’t run Pilot Sports because they aren’t class legal and you wouldn’t anyway because the new BF Goodrich Rival S is better in the wet. It’s right here in an article you read alone in your apartment last Saturday night while eating ramen. Does it even rain where you live?
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All Seasons
You either live somewhere where you actually need these tires or you have given up on life in general. If you have a Corvette and run all seasons in anywhere it is warm you need to stop immediately and evaluate what has happened to you since you first purchased this vehicle. As your doctor, I advise healthy doses of full throttle and a prescription of one of the tires listed above. Don’t do it for the Corvette community, do it for yourself. We care about you and we are all concerned.
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Hoosiers
When asked what you would do with your lottery winnings you say, “hookers and cocaine!!!” Hoosiers are the Rolling Stones of the tire world: you are surprised you made it out of the corner alive and you need more. They actually call these tires purple crack. I am not making that up. You get really smug when people talk about Pilot Sports. Everyone remembers their first time on Hoosiers, but the habit isn’t cheap! Look…your tire dealer keeps calling. We know you just wanna go fast, but you might have a problem man…
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Run Flats
Performance first? Nonsense. Better to be safe than sorry. Why would I track my mildly upgraded base Corvette? I don’t care about that. It’s not about that. I just want to cruise with the top down and look good. Does this car even come with a spare? There is still hope for you.
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What tires do you use?
Hopefully, you had a good laugh at this article. No matter what tires you are on at the end of the day as long as they’re on a Corvette you’re heading in the right direction. If this article made you laugh or you have a different opinion on what tires say about you let us know! That’s a wrap!
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