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Originally Posted by RedBarchetta
This is something I might have considered when I was...17.  
Someday GY is going to get their act together and make the right DOT, radial-based tire that has "the look." And then we're going to view this archived thread and laugh our ass off. |
When I got my tires from the distributor over in Daytona and had them mounted, but not balanced - to the horror of some - I asked the guy why Goodyear didn't make something like the Nitto 555RII. He just shook his head and said that they started to go down that path and had a few tires and then dropped the whole thing. He said they claimed there wasn't enough money in it - which is hard to believe with Kumho, Nitto, Hankook, etc. making them. (Or, maybe they felt they couldn't compete with them.) He then went on to say Goodyear was still in an old, two story factory and was sort of an "old dog" of a company. The point was that they weren't really interested in learning new tricks. After that conversation I wasn't wondering about when we would have a radial version of this tire, but how long it would be before I couldn't get it anymore. He said nothing to indicate they were going away, but a conversation like that doesn't make you think new and better things are coming to the table.
But what do I know...