TO BE OR NOT TO BE

Well the low profile tires on the modern sports cars (my Vette)

and sportier sedans (like my son’s WRX) certainly wouldn’t benefit from them.  

not sure they would do anything for SUVs which dominate today.  

On my 68 Charger (not mine pictured) I had raised white letter Goodyear although the red lines look good on others.   

On my 73 Cougar XR7 the white walls looked right.

George, the answer is "no."  "Lo-pros" are here to stay....and as many of you know, "lo-pro run flats" suck!  Even with MRC and/or ride options...they suck!  Unless you're in a Rolls Royce or Bently, NOTHING beats the ride of larger, softer, shock absorbing tires with sidewalls.

We may see colored rubber tires one day. Drive a blue car? No problem, buy blue tires!

Maybe on a Rolls-Royce: 

but not an SUV.

I'm not sure that much of anything looks classy on an SUV.

As far as whether they look classy or not, our European and UK folks might have different opinions. 

As far as whether they look classy or not, our European and UK folks might have different opinions. Whitewalls look as strange to them as blackwalls look to us. 

Well, my personal opinion here, and I'm okay with being in the (perhaps huge) minority, TIRES are the ugliest part of a car.  And for that reason I hate ALL cars today that have completely open wheel-wells that show not only the ugly tires, but also lots of the undercarriage of a car.  There is NOTHING beautiful about the undercarriage of any car.  Period.  As for all the many wheels that have replaced nice hub-caps on all cars today, give me back the hub-caps and white walls!

First of all, I agree with Chris about low profile tires. Secondly my Nissan Murano and Crown Victoria look great with black wall tires IMO. My 55 Imperial, 61 Corvette and 63 Thunderbird would look stupid with black wall tires. My pet peeve is seeing original collector cars with the incorrect white wall width.

Posted by: @bob-jackman

My pet peeve is seeing original collector cars with the incorrect white wall width.

MINE TOO!  Practically on every collector car I've ever owned, the first thing I did was "correct" incorrect tires.

I’ve said it time and again that black wall tires with the really dark or black wheels so popular today make the wheel openings on todays cars look like a huge black hole!

also while the low profile tires help styling the problem with curb rash damage on those pretty fancy wheels we like is really frustrating!!!🤯

Posted by: @chris

Posted by: @bob-jackman

My pet peeve is seeing original collector cars with the incorrect white wall width.

MINE TOO!  Practically on every collector car I've ever owned, the first thing I did was "correct" incorrect tires.

MINE THREE!  But for a different reason.  When I see movies that supposedly take place in another decade, and there will be cars in it that have INCORRECT tires on them.  Tells me that the producers of the movie didn't take the time to research the cars for correctness.  One of those movies that comes to mind is the Johnny Cash bio-pic, "Walk the Line".  They are in 1955 and there are cars on the road with "thin-whites" on them.  Not only period incorrect, but impossible because in 1955 "thin-whites" were not yet produced.  

@georgeschire 

Concerning movies and correct cars/whitewalls.  This bugs me too.  When I worked with my car on a movie taking place in 1969, I painted my BF Goodrich T/A Radial's white letters black on my '65 Mustang because the tires didn't exist then.  However, that was just something I did.  The producers/transportation coordinators didn't care, they just wanted a bunch of pre-1970 cars to create street traffic.  

@pete-rovero 

Being a "period correct" guy that I am, any movie I see with incorrect cars and/or tires that is supposedly taking place in a certain year or decade, bugs me to no end.  The movie automatically gets a bad review from me.  If the producers aren't going to do the research and take the time to assure period correctness, they lose me.