Just saw a Goodyear commercial titled "Forever the greatest name in tires"

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Not sure if I agree with the sentiment, especially with Michelin out there. But it's an interesting ad, starting out with the DeLorean from Back to the Future. That had clear Goodyear white outline lettering on the side of the tires. It includes rocket cars, scenes from both Top Gun movies, some aerial acrobatic plane sponsored by them, a lot of car racing scenes, a Lunar Roving Vehicle, monster trucks, and of course different iterations of the Goodyear Blimp.

 
Got curious about the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Goodyear actually had a hand in designing the vehicle with General Motors and Boeing. The wheels didn't have tires per se, but a frame surrounded by a piano-wire mesh and titanium chevrons as a "tread". It was designed to avoid sinking into the lunar soil. The Smithsonian claims this was developed by Boeing, but other sources say that Goodyear was part of the development team.

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/wheel-lunar-rover/nasm_A19750830000

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Kind of hard to tell, but this document has indications that previous designs included rubber tires designed by Goodyear, along with final designs by the General Motors Defense Research Lab. It shows the wheel in the above image as the final LRV wheel design.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100000019/downloads/20100000019.pdf
 
They ran that ad during the NASCAR race today, I hadn’t seen it before. I’ve personally had mixed results with Goodyears but they can definitely make a good tire when they want to.
 
Thanks for posting the commercial, I like it!

Not sure any monster trucks have used Goodyears for a long time. BKT (whoever they are) pretty much has that market tied up now.

Lots of Goodyear (and their sister company Cooper) tires are made in the USA, so I think that's a good thing. Probably not so much of a good thing if you're from Canada or one of the many other countries that suddnly don't like us any more though.
 
I've been thinking about giving the new F1 Asymmetric 6s a shot.

I had the Asymmetric 2s years ago and I liked them quite a bit. Very quick, immediate inputs, relatively low noise and comfortable enough.
 
There is no legal definition of forever and greatest. If religion and government that lasted less than 1000 years can use them, it is all game.
 
I’ve had GY tires on many of the vehicles I owned in the past and also currently on my daily econo car. I had zero issues w all of them and they all performed as they were suppose to. My only semi complaint was how loud the duratracs got after 20k miles but it’s an aggressive AT tire so to be expected.
 
I used almost exclusively Good Year winter tires in Europe before moving here, mid-late 90's to maybe 2002. Then they started to fall behind Continental a bit in the winter segment there. Got Conti's back then I think TS780. They fell behind further in Europe, they are definitely not the leader in winter segment they once were.
Here, I always had mediocre results. "Good for a Year," is the best way to describe it. I generally really liked them when living in Europe, and might give them again a chance with GY Adventure for Sequoia. But definitely not on par Michelin, Bridgestone and Continental.
 
DirtyGary said:
I've been thinking about giving the new F1 Asymmetric 6s a shot.

I had the Asymmetric 2s years ago and I liked them quite a bit. Very quick, immediate inputs, relatively low noise and comfortable enough.
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I have a set with 20,000 km.
They are not the absolute fastest tyres available but wear better, probably get at least 40.000 km, probably more like 50,000.
They are a great Street UHP. Do everything really well. Fantastic in wet inc ex TC downpours on the Freeway at 110 km.h.
They are also good value.
The rim protection is excellent and they show many of my wife's attempted murder efforts of the alloy rims, there is even a huge chunk missing in one spot.
I was going to get a second set for wife's car but Yokohama were on sale and she wanted to keep the JDM theme. Yokos are a step up in driver pleasure and performance but probably won't last as long.
 
I am from the Akron area, so I have a lot of family friends who work in the tire industry, not just at Goodyear, but a lot of other tire businesses that have their engineering departments nearby. Me personally I have never had an issue with Goodyear tires and can usually score the amount a pretty nice friends and family discount. Currently running the WeatherReady2s on my partners CRV and we both agree they are super capable in the snow without being loud on the pavement. Also feels good to support the last American tire company that made its name in my hometown.

However, like some of the comments here alluded to I think it depends on if Goodyear decides to make a good tire or not. They sell a lot of their tires exclusively through Walmart, which I know are cheaper in terms of development and cost.

Also will say this commercial did get me oddly pumped up to buy tires? :ROFLMAO:
 
I have mixed experience with GoodYear.

The Bad: My Toyota Matrix came with OEM GoodYear Eagle RS-A. Absolutely horrible tires, poor traction, rubber got hard within 3 years and started cracking, tires became out of round, impossible to balance and eventually developed bulges. Dumped them after 30k.
The Good: More recently, I gave GoodYear another try when they came out with the Reliant tire in 2023. Very happy. Balance well (most important to me), good traction, good treadwear and very reasonably priced. Bought another set in 2024. WM runs a sale on Thanksgiving.
The Ugly: I got a coupon once from the GoodYear tire center. They damaged my rims. Their machine punched dimples on the inside of every rim. I will never set foot in their stores again. But I will buy their "good" tires for the right price.
 
So, this basically proves that Goodyear knows how to get screen time with sponsorship, be it marketing on the big screen or sponsorship to the automotive world.

I’ve had exactly 1 excellent Goodyear experience, with a particular weather-related moniker they had around 2013 or so. Fabulous tires and I hated to see them go - even out-scored Michelin on tirerack. Brilliant tires. But most of my experience has been good for a short while then noisy in the dry and slick in the rain as their rubber compounds all seem to harden with age. I wouldn’t mind trying a set of duratraks if it was only a part-time vehicle. Besides that, Bridgestone, Yokohama, Michelin, continental, have all been better experiences.

I’m considering a set of coopers, now owned by GY, and that may be as close as I get for now. Still, that one set I had 12 years ago on the family 3.8L hauler minivan was superb.
 
i used to drive in SCCA sprint races back in the early 1970s. Everybody back then used non street legal Goodyear racing tires.
 
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