The world of tires is an ever-expanding nexus of increasingly specialized compounds for any situation. There are tires for everyday roads, snow, rain, summer, racing, off-roading and tires that ...

Not to ruin your day or anything, but you should know that there’s a very good chance that you’ll have a flat tire at some point in your life. Even if you drive like a saint and carefully avoid every ...

If you’ve bought a new car in the last several years, there’s an increasing likelihood that when you take a look in the trunk, you’ll no longer find a spare tire. At best in many cases you’ll get an ...

Maybe you’ve been in this situation: stuck on the side of a road, a punctured tire needing to be changed out for the spare one in the trunk. You have a pair of options, do you choose to change the ...

Q: Greg, what are the latest offerings in run-flat tires? Are they available for all vehicles? I hear you can go 50 miles at 55 mph on them. Is this true, and who makes these tires? — Karl E., ...

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.—Customers with run-flat tires are less satisfied overall and replace tires more frequently in the first two years of ownership than do drivers with non-run-flat tires. That's ...

Run-flat tires are an increasingly common type of tire on passenger cars. Manufacturers such as BMW are mounting them on new cars instead of equipping the car with a spare tire. Doing so saves weight ...

Run-flat tires–now on a few sports cars–are moving to the mass market. Michelin North America this spring introduced a run-flat for mid-size sedans, including the Mazda 626, Ford Contour, Saab 900 and ...