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auto tire - a tire consisting of a rubber ring around the rim of an automobile wheel

retread, recap - a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads

tire, tyre - hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air"

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Now Amerityre (www.amerityre.com; Boulder City, NV), a small company that currently specializes in tubeless tires for bicycles, golf cars and wheelbarrows, has developed a polyurethane auto tire that it claims can go toe to toe with rubber.

Tires of the future? If automotive tire upstart Amerityre can perfect its polyurethane tires, we may soon have to revise the phrase "where the rubber meets the road."

Japan's fourth-ranked auto tire maker said it is sorting out candidate sites for the plant in the eastern U.S.

Toyo Tire to build plant in U.S

When analysts state "It's no secret that the OE auto tire business is unprofitable," you wonder if any of the MBAs at the companies still think it's a secret.

Ending to the market share mantra. (Editorial)

By type, tires for light trucks (including minibuses) account for 45.1% of the country's auto tire production, sedan tires (30.9%) and tires for mini trucks and big trucks/buses (24%).

Indonesia's automotive tire production capacity was 8.5 million units in 1989 and 10.2 million units in 1990

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