> Now the RA10 looks like it would be a much better tire for all season use.

Unfortunately Hankook doesn't offer the RA10 to the U.S. market. In fact
they probably wouldn't even be selling the RA08 here by now if it weren't
for me.  I met with Hankook at SEMA years ago about the RA08 and had an
impassioned "if you build it they will come" conversation with a couple of
their U.S. execs.  At the time they did not believe there was a U.S. market
for the RA08 and were only importing a handful a month. I would order 200
tires and they'd only have 20 in the whole country to send me. Clearly they
were stifling their own sales.  To their credit they listened.  However that
was easier because the RA08 was already designated a U.S. market tire.
Getting them to bring in a tire that they've never sold here at all (and is
quite possibly not even labeled for U.S. sale) for a niche market would be a
much more difficult endeavor.

- Ron Salmon
  The Bus Depot, Inc.
  www.busdepot.com
  (215)  234-VWVW

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