[Shotimes] OT - Win a ricer!

[Ron Porter]

I heard of Hankook tires before I ever heard of Kumhos. Go to this link, and
check out some of the press releases:

http://www.hankooktireusa.com/about-set.html

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Noah South III
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT - Win a ricer!


It's all starting to sounds like Phantoms, which are just rebadged
Generals......................I wouldn't use a no name brand tire.  I'll
wait till they have some clout, then I'll buy a set.

-Noah South III

----- Original Message -----
From: <kerbyh@netzero.net>
To: <ronporter@prodigy.net>
Cc: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 3:39 PM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] OT - Win a ricer!


> They are Korean, and have been for sale in Britain and Europe for a long
time.  Used to be not really good stuff, but that may have changed.  Maybe
they could change their noame to something like "Firestone"...
>
> Kerby
>
> --- "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net> wrote:
>
> Guess I don't get the joke........as in why Hankook is any stranger of a
> name than many others out there.
>
> BTW, Discount Tires carries Hankook. The stranger name, IMHO, is the
Finnish
> winter tire made by Nokia, the Hakkapeliita. Reputed to be the best winter
> tire made.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Koll
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:40 PM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT - Win a ricer!
>
>
> Ya, I saw them as sponsers of something-or-another on TV a while ago.
> "Hankook".
>
> Now, I'm sure Mr. Hankook is an honerable patriarch, but SOMEONE should
have
> had the stones to say in one of the first mgmt meatings at Hankook USA,
Inc.
> "Ahem!  We're gonna get ridiculed for generations here with a name like
> that.  Do you KNOW what a kook is here?"
>
>   Koll
>   Wish one of my competitors had a name like "Hankook"!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dean james" <djshov8@hotmail.com>
> To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 9:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT - Win a ricer!
>
>
> > I've always been a fan of the tires from the major manufacturers.  I
have
> > felt the same way about Nitto, Sumito, and maybe a few others as you
feel
> > about Hankook.  Maybe I'm just behind the times.  My wife thought I was
> > crazy when I told her I was buying Yokohama tires for my 97 SHO, since
she
> > had never heard of them.
> >
> > >A free car is a free car, but I wouldn't drive anything that says
> > >"Hankook" on it anywhere!  : )
> >
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