Which alignment term describes the top of the tire pointing inward and the bottom facing outward?

• A. Neutral alignment
• B. Toe-in
• C. Positive Camber
• D. Negative Camber

Answer: (D)

Negative camber is at play here. Camber describes how the wheel tilts from vertical. When the top of the tire leans inward toward the car’s centerline and the bottom leans outward, the wheel has negative camber. This setup helps keep more of the tire’s contact patch on the road during cornering, though excessive negative camber can wear the inner tread. Positive camber would tilt the top outward, and neutral camber would be a perfectly vertical wheel. Toe-in, a different alignment aspect, refers to whether the tires point toward or away from each other when viewed from above, not the vertical tilt. So the described condition matches negative camber.