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The Firestone and Ford tire controversy of the 1990s saw hundreds of people die in automobile crashes caused by the failure of Firestone tires installed on light trucks and SUVs made by Ford Motor Company. Unusually high failure rates of P235/75R15 ATX, ATX II, and Wilderness AT tires installed on the first-generation Ford Explorer and similar ...
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturer headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Goodyear manufactures tires for passenger vehicles, aviation, commercial trucks, military and police vehicles, motorcycles, RVs, race cars, and heavy off-road machinery. It also licenses the Goodyear brand to bicycle tire ...
Goodyear (farm tires), Titan, Continental (OTR only) [78] Tigar Tyres Serbia: 2002 Tigar: Tomket Tires [79] [non-primary source needed] Czech Republic: 1997 Tomket (Czech brand of low category is made in China) Toyo Tire & Rubber [80] Japan: 1945 Nitto, Silverstone, Toyo: Trayal Corporation Serbia: 1955 Trayal (farm tires) Triangle Group [81 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Goodyear said on Tuesday it would recall 173,000 G159 tires used on recreational vehicles because of the potential of catastrophic tread separations and after U.S. auto ...
Goodyear is recalling 173,000 tires — certain model G159 tires — for recreational vehicles that it manufactured between 1996 and 2003. Goodyear will recall RV tires 19 years after they were ...
So far this year, Toyota has recalled about 2.5 million vehicles in five campaigns. During the last two years, the automaker recalled 11.8 million vehicles in the U.S., more than any other ...
Between the 1950s to the early 1990s, Formula One tire brands, such as Dunlop, Firestone, Continental, Goodyear, Avon Rubber, Englebert, Pirelli, and Michelin often warred with each other. From 1961 to 1963 the sport used Dunlop tires exclusively, and in 1987 and 1988 Goodyear took the same role during Pirelli's two-year sabbatical.
The Kelly-Springfield Tire Company was an American manufacturer of tires for motor vehicles, it was founded in Springfield, Ohio by Edwin Kelly and Arthur Grant in 1894. It was acquired in 1935 by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company , who maintained it as a subsidiary until 1999 when it was integrated into Goodyear North America. [ 1 ]