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Posted (edited)

Hey Guys,

Was down at a Ford dealership today and spoke to a mate who works there, and he was telling me that in June or July, FPV will be releasing the GS with 22's all round. Not sure if the other models will receive the same treatment, but I would assume so. Has anyone else heard this? Just wanna know if there is any truth to this or not, as it sounds like BS to me.

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  • Member For: 22y 7m 13d
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Posted

I would say it is total BS, as 22" offer crappy performance and ride.

People only do them for bling, so I do not see FPV doing more than 20"s tops.

I believe they will be doing a 275 rear in the mid year update to cope with the blown 5lt.

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Posted

Yeah I thought so. Couldn't imagine any car manufacturer releasing a sports sedan with 22's, lol.

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Think the Walkingshaw SuperClubby had 22's on the rear, and it was around 2 seconds faster on 20's around the Top Gear track? 22's would be stupid.

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Posted

Im pretty sure it had 20's and they took it down to 19's for the quicker time..

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I doubt they will even do a 20" x 35.

I have 19" x 255 x 35 on the front and they only just fit at the top of the control arm. And 275's x 30's on the rear. And they like to aqua plane in heavy rain.

20's with a 35 profile would be great. I really hope they do. But I doubt it.

Bloody sales man.

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If you go to the FPV website and look at all of the images of the cars on the salt flats, they CLEARLY have 20" rims and they're a different design to the B series rims, but yet, they kept the same rims from BF to FG. Check out these pics:

Look at the profile of the tyre on the F6 here

range03122009.jpg

Definitely 20's

ford-fpv-fg-falcon1.jpg

Similar to the argents

image46606_b.jpg

image46605_b.jpg

Maybe they made a last minute decision to save the rim upgrade to the series 2..?

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Posted

Nah, they look like the normal GT/F6 19" rims.

I have the same rims as pictured on the GT, so I do not know where you are getting the "CLEARLY 20" from :respeckt:

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Posted (edited)

Well im with R-SPEC there definately bigger check out this pic then compare them to the last..

f6e.jpg

and look at the clearance from the tire to the guard

Edited by berzerker
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In my opinion, any wheels > 21" start to look stupid (not to mention sh1tter dynamics). Once I saw a riced up Accord with 24" rims - I can think of a million better ways to piss away money.

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