Today I Learned

[For Canada]

The (absolutely horrendous looking) second generation Ford Scorpio, despite it's rather large size, only has four lug wheels. I know. Fascinating.

Even more interestingly, the previous generation had a standard five lug setup. And I'm pretty sure the second generation was bigger. I guess five lugs was too much to ask the next time around when they already spent all their money on drugs coming up with the styling.

[Cé hé sin]

The second was a heavy facelift of the first so I'm guessing they were the same-ish size.

[dogisbadob]

So Ford cheapened shit in Europe, too, not just the US

[Just Jeepin']

I was curious, so I looked around. I'm surprised at how many 4 lug setups are out there.

http://www.ezaccessory.com/Articles.asp?ID=259

[HFV]

@for-canada I thought that was a Daewoo

[nowhere]

FOUR lugs? Wasteful extravagance! Many French cars only needed three!

Come to think of it, if you have knock-off wire wheels you've kind of got just one lug per wheel...

[Just Jeepin']

@nowhere NASCAR concurs

https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2020/03/02/nascar-single-lug-nut-design-wheel-next-gen-car/

[fintail]

One of the most endearing classics of all time had 4 lugs:

[HFV]

@for-canada I bet they are 4x108 too

[Manwich]

@hfv said in Today I Learned:

@for-canada I bet they are 4x108 too

Just like the Ford Focus!

[HFV]

@manwich and the Fox Bodies

[ranwhenparked]

@for-canada Its astounding how many different levels of management that design had to go through for approval

[nowhere]

@just-jeepin It sure makes changing the tire a lot quicker. Now that I think about, I've only owned one car with knock-off wires... and I never had to change a tire on it once!