dont all the G's have bigger wheel gaps in the front... my 03 coupe is like that.. but nothing lowering springs cant fix

 

yeah, all the 'real' pics show differently than the one you posted.

 

It's not like the front is really sitting higher than the rear, it's a trick on the eyes, as it's simply the front wheel opening that is bigger than the rear wheel opening. This should be very noticeable just by looking at the opening profile pic in this thread. In fact, it even makes the rear tire look like a smaller diameter than the front, which clearly is not the case.

Of course, this does impact the visual gap between wheel and fender, but that has nothing to do with the ground clearance or ride height.

 

i think it looks off because the wheel well arch in the front is higher up than that of the rear.....

 

To me the wheel opening is the ride height. If the front wheel opening is larger, that signifies (again, to me) that the front is riding higher. After all, it looks that way. If they needed the nose to be higher for ground clearance, why didn't they make the wheel opening smaller (or the rear one larger)? It makes no sense to me that they would purposefully have the wheel gap noticeably larger on the front -- especially when they are going for the rake/down on the front look.

I guess it really doesn't matter -- it is what it is. I was just trying to see if it was just the pics, or if it was really that way. Thankfully, that is what coilovers are for. I just hope someone makes a tapered rocker to even it out when the stance is "proper" (visually).

On a side note, don't race teams measure ride height from the ground to the fender opening?

 

Perhaps I shouldn't have included 'ride height' along with 'ground clearance'. The front wheel opening isn't larger because they need the front to ride higher (have more ground clearance) than in the rear. The ground clearance is almost the same front to rear. The rear wheel opening is smaller for asthetic/design purposes. The design's success is open for debate. The front can't be just as small as the rear, but I agree that the rear should be a little closer to the front wheel opening's dimensions.

They are close, technically, (about the width of the vertical wheel-well/fender lip difference in height), but it certainly looks a lot more pronounced than the difference suggests.

Perhaps some deep-dish wheels in back will give the rear some authority.

 

It's not really the height, it's the huge front wheelwells.

 

Yup!! Like i mentioned above..the front wheel wells are higher up

 

It's the lens on the camera. On most of these wide angle shots edges always appear larger than center when in fact it is an optical distortion. The rear is in the center of the original picture.

 

I never would have figured that one out -- thank you! I am glad to hear that photo exaggerates the wheel gap.

 

I did'nt notice the wheel gap at the ny auto show.The model there did have the 19" sport wheels not the 18's in the picture.Maybe that helps but i think it depends on the angle your looking at.