The answer to the above question?
The wheels . Lok closely at the piucture on the right. It has standard Mini wheels which look wrong on a lot of Mini bodies because they are too small and look out of scale.
Now look at the picture on the left. These are the new off the production line Ride "inch up" rims and tyres. The tyres are 60D style diameter but they have low sidewalls because Ride made a slightly larger diameter rim.
The advantage apart from looking more scale? Well , in theory you have the advantage of 60mm diameter tyres on your Mini without having the high tyre sidewalls which tend to flex.
Will they be an advantage? Only time will tell.
They come in two compounds ... a front 38 and a rear 36. The tyres come with a foam insert (not moulded) but some intial testing shows that a TC insert can be squeezed down to fit inside the tyres
Last edited by cannon; 10-23-2010 at 05:26 PM.