Tires Michelin vs Yokohama

sb2bb wrote:
Michelin....made in AMERICA...

X-2, My Michelins (XRV's) were manufactured in North Carolina! I talked to a Michelin Rep. over the phone (there Corp. Office in N.Y.) and he told me that all Michelin tires are made in the U.S. (labor agreement with the Unions), but they due have an agreement with the Unions if there is a large backorder of tires then Michelin Tire ships tires to fill the backorder from Canada. It is rare when tires are shipped from Canada to the U.S., when I ordered my XRV's they were on backorder I was told that they were going to be shipped to me from Canada. It never happened after a 4 week wait my XRV's came in from N.C. Michelin is a foreign company (France) that owns factories in the U.S. and makes tires in the U.S. There is currently only one tire manufacture from the U.S. that makes U.S. tires and that is Goodyear! Cooper Tires recently sold there tire business to Apollo Tire Co. of India so that leaves Goodyear as the last USA tire Co. from the USA. As Paul Harvey would say "Now you have the rest of the story"