You don't really need to worry about big wheels and unsprung weight.
Weight is the enemy. In cars, saving weight means more speed, better handling, better ride, and increased efficiency, and while all automotive engineers will try and save a gram wherever they can, not all weight is the same. Unsprung weight is an area of great focus among enthusiasts. The term collectively refers to the weights in a car not controlled by its spring, including the wheel, tire, brake system, and hub.
, unsprung weight is best understood as being a function of a vehicle's total weight. Let's do a silly thought experiment: If you could take a Range Rover's 23s and put them on a Miata, the resultant huge increase in unsprung mass would transfer a lot of energy into the sprung mass as the tires moved along a road source. But a Range Rover weighs nearly a ton more than a Miata, so all its unsprung weight doesn't make nearly as much of a difference.
I think where people get confused is from the conventional wisdom around tire sizes. If on your car, you switch to a larger aftermarket wheel that's much heavier than stock, it will likely have a big negative effect on ride both because of the increase in unsprung weight and because of the possible decrease in tire sidewall size.
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