My local guy says they come from Japan. Wouldn't be the first thing that's
made in Japan but not sold there.
Unfortunately the Yokohame Australia website is "under construction".
Wes Dayton
On 28/10/03 1:34 PM, "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com> wrote:
>> What we did wonder was "are the U.S. tires manufactured locally"? It's
>> quite possible that Yokohama hsa a plant somewhere in the U.S. producing
>> performance tires including the A032R?
>
> I'm pretty sure that's the case, the Yokos sold in the USA are also made
> here. It's actually a separate company, Yokohama Tire corp instead of
> Yokohama Rubber Corp.
> http://www.yokohamatire.com
> I believe their headquarters are down the road a bit from me, in Fullerton
> CA.
>
>> If that's so, maybe you're runninvg
>> into a case where they just don't make that size locally, and so someone
>> needs to organise importing them.
>
> Funny thing is, the 205/60-15 size doesn't seem to be listed even on the
> Japanese Yokohama website :
> http://www.yokohamatire.jp/yrc/japan/top.jsp
>
> Any idea what country they come from ?
>
> Randall
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