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Ferrari 599 GTB Gets 22-inch Custom Wheels, The Balance Has Been Upset

The car world has become so obsessed with humongous wheels that asking yourself about the possibility of the penny-farthing trend making a comeback almost seems natural.
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And we're here to give you the latest example of that, which comes in the form of a slightly abused Ferrari. We're dealing with a 599 GTB, which has been forced to use 22-inch wheels.

You can check out the car in the images below, which come from Vk Adder, a Dutch new and used high-octane machine dealership that's been in the business for three decades now.

For the record, the factory wheel size for the 599 sees the Prancing Horse being gifted with 19-inch rims up front and 20-inch units at the back. And while most tuners already enjoy playing with the delicate ride and handling balance by adding one extra inch to those values, the risk has been doubled here.

There are plenty of reasons for which such rolling exaggerations should be avoided, but the most obvious one has to do with comfort. More than anything else, the 599 GTB is a Grand Tourer, but you can't expect this label to compensate for the considerably larger wheels as if it was magic.

Forged or not, larger wheels are obviously heavier, which means the unsprung weight, a key factor when it comes to suspension coziness, is also increased.

Even for the most recent V12 Maranello has delivered, namely the insanely fast F12 Tour de France, the Italian engineers haven't gone above 20 inches. Then again, when the obsession for a microscopic tire-wheel gap or perfect fitment is present, such arguments become irrelevant.

This is how the term "stance" has ended up getting a poor reputation. After all, any car has a certain stance, namely the way it sits on the road, but due to all the overkill episodes out there, the issue mentioned above is real.
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