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khantran04: define performance for you then. After all, even guys going to track or ones developing suspension, advise square setup. And even forced induction/burnouts is not much of reason to put different tires on car ends. If you have forced induction and want more grip, simply put wider but both of same wider width on front and rear. Suspension of our cars was engineered around square setup, electronic nannies like traction control and ABS also expect that and may misbehave or less efficient when it's not. Reasoning that some more upscale cars may have staggered width setup doesn't work, as they simply are engineered to have it that way .. NOT like ours. From practical standpoint it also is good to have staggered wheels & tires setup, as it's easier to find set of same wheels, it's easier to eg. buy 5th wheel for spare if you damage one, without need to buy two or finding available of two different sizes depending if damaged was in front or rear, and as i mentioned above, you can simply rotate front-rear to even out wear and get more mileage from one set of tires. Tire choice for staggered setup often is much more limited, as it may not come in sizes as needed for one of ends. My friend has MR2, that was engineered to have staggered setup. He mostly has only negative comments on that, due all the limitations/extra inconveniences it brings. He'd be more happy to have normal common square setup, if his car wouldn't need staggered one. In general, for this platform most do staggered setup only when they do that for looks reasons (to me it looks more like posing, instead of being cool though), as they try to put very widest ones they can, and it's possible to put wider in one end. Everybody is free to do whatever he wish to his car and money .. but please, don't reason staggered setup with "to improve handling or for more performance". It will not improve, rather will make worse handling/worse performance/less safe/with more issues/more expensive/less practical/limit tire & wheel choice.
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