Daft tyre names

[Missy Charm]

Parked next to a car with a Churchill tyre today.  One from the 'choose something from a list of vaguely trustworthy sounding generic names and hope people make the right associations' school of marketing.  

[quicksilver]

  On 13/03/2023 at 20:11, Missy Charm said:

Parked next to a car with a Churchill tyre today.  One from the 'choose something from a list of vaguely trustworthy sounding generic names and hope people make the right associations' school of marketing.  

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Oh yes.

[MiniMinorMk3]

  On 13/03/2023 at 20:11, Missy Charm said:

Parked next to a car with a Churchill tyre today.  One from the 'choose something from a list of vaguely trustworthy sounding generic names and hope people make the right associations' school of marketing.  

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I've heard they are good on the sandy stuff.

[bunglebus]

[martc]

  On 13/04/2023 at 21:00, bunglebus said:

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Made in Portugal, owned by Continental. Quote - 'Mabor owes its name to Maria Fernandes Borges – the wife of Francisco Borges, who, as the co-owner of a Portuguese bank, financed a major share of the Mabor plant.'

https://www.mabor-tyres.com/car/the-brand

[Metal Guru]

  On 14/04/2023 at 11:32, martc said:

Made in Portugal, owned by Continental. Quote - 'Mabor owes its name to Maria Fernandes Borges – the wife of Francisco Borges, who, as the co-owner of a Portuguese bank, financed a major share of the Mabor plant.'

https://www.mabor-tyres.com/car/the-brand

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I thought it was an anagram of Rambo.

[warch]

  On 13/03/2023 at 20:11, Missy Charm said:

Parked next to a car with a Churchill tyre today.  One from the 'choose something from a list of vaguely trustworthy sounding generic names and hope people make the right associations' school of marketing.  

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Looking forward to seeing Montgomery, Mainwaring and Harris tyres to appeal to the patriotic British market. 

[bunglebus]

[Metal Guru]

  On 25/04/2023 at 13:04, bunglebus said:

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All right for town use.

[coachie]

Found this whilst perusing locally available shite on Facebook.  

Royal Mile, Scotch made tyre for Volvos?

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/541936424793910

[warch]

Bingo! My eyes lit up when I spotted budget tyres on the maintenance form for Mrs warch’s new (well 2020) whip.

A pair of the recently mentioned Churchills on the front…

and a brace of the fabulously named Autogreen Sport Cruisers on the rear.

[MiniMinorMk3]

  On 01/05/2023 at 12:53, coachie said:

Found this whilst perusing locally available shite on Facebook.  

Royal Mile, Scotch made tyre for Volvos?

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/541936424793910

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Standard fit on all Coronation vehicles.

[leafsprung]

It's my way or the... 

[morrisoxide]

Found on the eBay tat thread.

WANDA!

[sutty2006]

Just looking for tyres on eBay and came across this beauty. 
 

 

nope, no thanks. 

[bunglebus]

Imperial. But also partly metric

[MiniMinorMk3]

  On 12/05/2023 at 10:05, bunglebus said:

Imperial. But also partly metric

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Those tyres are Mint.

[Metal Guru]

  On 12/05/2023 at 14:39, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Those tyres are Mint.

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Surely Polo is the only mint with a hole in the middle?

[Cheggers]

  On 12/05/2023 at 10:05, bunglebus said:

Imperial. But also partly metric

Fair play to them, they're certainly grippy

[dozeydustman]

Our fitters have for some reason fitted this to a freighter.

[MiniMinorMk3]

  On 14/05/2023 at 13:57, dozeydustman said:

Our fitters have for some reason fitted this to a freighter.

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That reminds me of the old Dunlop advertising Groundhog. I had a squeaky toy of one of these.

 

[bunglebus]

Mmm, Firemax

[junkyarddog]

Kapsen!!

[bunglebus]

A very bald Neolin

[bunglebus]

Seen just now but the bloke was sat in his car

[Landy Mann]

  On 18/07/2022 at 15:11, warch said:

Have we had any of these yet? The snappily named Lanvigator. 

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Had a Lanvigator Performax H/T fitted to use as a spare today. In fairness I did ask my local tyre place for the cheapest 245/65 R17 they had, hopefully we won't need to use it.

[christian6984]

 

Other thing that amused me was coming across engine oil with the same surname as me

[Metal Guru]

  On 06/06/2023 at 21:46, christian6984 said:

 

Other thing that amused me was coming across engine oil with the same surname as me

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Disappointing. I was hoping you were Mr Castro GTX.

[bunglebus]

[bunglebus]