Turning to the upscale luxury market, Toyo Tire (USA) Corp. has launched its new Versado line of luxury high performance tires.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. reported overall first-quarter sales of $4.5 billion, which were up 1% from 2006, but the USW strike in North America reduced income by about $34 million.

Toyo has released the latest in a long and distinguished line of performance rubber with the new Proxes 4.

Falken Tire Corp. has announced the availability of its Solaris and Executive wheels.

UNO and WHO are exercising the global Road Safety Week. It’s the very first time an action like this has been practiced and it addresses primarily children who suffer the most from road accidents.

Groupe Michelin’s subsidiary in Romania, Michelin Silvania, has indicated it expects production at its facility in the city of Zalau will rise by 10% this year, following an increase of 23% during 2006.

Volvo is set to become the first truck manufacturer in Europe to self-repairing tyres on its products after the company entered into a supply deal with Goodyear.

Nokian Tyres had a “better than expected” first quarter of 2007.

Established wisdom amongst a large section of the motoring public and even within the tyre industry dictates that new tyres should be fitted to a vehicle’s front wheels.

Goodyear has launched a radio information campaign to highlight the role of preventative tyre maintenance in road safety.

Sibur-Russian Tyres has announced their readiness to work in cooperation with Continental AG in the area of the joint venture company Matador Omskshina.

The Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3 has been singled out as Australasia’s tyre of choice for large cars after scoring highly in independent tyre tests conducted by leading Australian motoring publication Wheels magazine.

Bridgestone Potenza RE-01R tires will be the featured rubber for the new Speed channel series "Setup." The first episode of the six-part reality series aired last night.

Today, at a ride-and-drive event for dealers and media at the Bira International Circuit just outside Pattaya, Thailand, Falken Tire Corp. launched the tire it had previewed at the 2006 SEMA Show – the Ziex ZE-912.

More than 40 attendees – including tire dealers and journalists – were invited by Falken Tire Corp. to tour its parent company’s new Sumitomo Rubber (Thailand) Co. (SRT) tire plant in Rayong, Thailand, southeast of Bangkok.

Right hand drive versions of GM’s Hummer H3, including those destined for the U.K. market, will be exclusively shod with products from the Goodyear stable.

Transportation safety products company Mobile Awareness released a new generation of TPMS products geared toward commercial trucks, utility vehicles, RVs and trailers – the MA-TPMS.

Rebuffed in its attempts to buy Goodyear’s Engineered Products Group and Siemens VDO’s automotive electronics business, Continental AG will now acquire a majority stake in Slovakian tiremaker Matador Group.

Bridgestone Motorsport has produced a special Limited Edition F1 Potenza Snow Tyre at the request of the BMW Sauber F1 Team.

Poland’s leading monthly business magazine, Forbes Poland, has named Bridgestone as the top foreign investor in Poland for 2006.

The Chinese news agency Xinhua has reported that Groupe Michelin is planning to expand its tire plant in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning Province, and make it the tiremaker’s biggest production center worldwide.

Yokohama Tire Corp. announced that, effective May 1, it will increase prices on consumer tires up to 7% and OTR tires from 3% to 5%.