---- The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM> wrote:
> > 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.

But it does, from the Euro web site for Hankook, look like a better tire.  Winter capable is a big plus.   Any chance?  mcneely

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