Originally Posted by Mike-in-Orange
The optimum wheel size should be what the car came with, because that's how it was designed. You can't directly compare the wheel sizing on the Crossfire to those of the SLK since the suspension is quite different in the two cars. The Crossifre makes use of modified CLK front and S-Class rear suspension to accomodate the larger wheels.
I would have to disagree. I have read some of the misinformation that has been put out there to distance the Crossfire from the SLK320. CLK front suspension is BS as the CLK is McPherson strut. Our front suspensions are Identical to the SLK as well as the rear suspension. As long as you have comittees designing cars which also include the bean counters, very few cars are optimized but rather jsut a bunch of comprimises. Getting the stock boat ancors of my car made a lot of difference.