A fairly recent article:
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For everyday motoring, you can be sure that the smaller offerings offer the best compromise, especially because “smaller” these days is not really small at all.
To summarise, bigger equates to improved dry grip, braking and roadholding and generally looks macho.
But it promotes increased fuel consumption, harsher/noisier ride, increased wear of suspension parts, greater vulnerabilty to curbing and sidewall damage because of the lower profile and earlier aquaplaning not to mention considerably greater replacement costs.
For everyday motoring, smaller is therefore better.