I took this picture back in 2003. Years later, I still love how they managed to cram those S1 3pc rims onto this Minivan. The mega stretched tire look isnt for everyone…but it cant be denied that a step lip rim with a stretched tire looks hard as hell! Even on a minivan.

A word to those not familiar with this technique:Stretching the tire over a much wider rim allows not only reduced worry about rubbing against the fender but also, it exposes more of the rim which makes the rims look much larger than if they were more covered with tire sidewall. Its a very dramatic effect which works great for show cars, street cars and even drift cars. On my own personal cars I compromise a little on this subject. I don’t like having too much tire on a street car since its less fun to drive (a whole different conversation to save for later), but I also don’t want to overexpose my rims to damage for street use. So on my S2000 for example, I run 265/3518 tires on 10.5 width rims. That gives it a little stretch, but not too much. An example of too much stretch would be like this car shown, which I’m guessing is running a 225-235 with tire on a 10-10.5 width rim.