By Colby Buchanan
There are tire names and then there’s the Cosmo MuchoMacho. As the name would imply, this tire is only for the best of the best right? Well, they’re actually Cosmo Tire’s cheap all-season tire option. Along with the many MuchoMacho, you also have Sexy Beasy and Kitty Kat, all equally as imposing.
Now I don’t know about you, but if you pull up repping the Kitty Kats I can almost guarantee you’re going to have everyone’s respect at your local cars and coffee. So much so that if you don’t paint the name white like in these photos it might be considered a crime against humanity.
On top of all this, I’d be willing to bet they add 20 horsepower just like all your anime and JDM stickers. *Proceed to checkout*
https://twitter.com/supcat/status/1234962468155248640?s=20
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All this Coronavirus chatter has got me thinkin’
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Of course, since everything in my head has a soundtrack, I’ve got The Knack shouting, “Cr- Cr- Cr- Cr- Crown Corona!” all the time, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk-BPRXYk9g
#obligatiry
I see your Macho Man and raise you one Mucha Muchacha
I see your Macho Macho Man and raise you one Mucha Muchacha
I don’t know if this is raising, or lowering, but:
https://vimeo.com/365899455
I don’t know if this is raising, or lowering, but:
https://vimeo.com/365899455
All this Coronavirus chatter has got me thinkin’
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Of course, since everything in my head has a soundtrack, I’ve got The Knack shouting, “Cr- Cr- Cr- Cr- Crown Corona!” all the time, too.
You’re not anywhere near Phoenix, are you?
http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/rt40-Corona-Sedan-Toyota-Right-Front.jpg
http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Left-Rear-rt40-Toyota-Corona.jpg
It could be yours:
http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/kidney-anyone-a-well-preserved-1968-toyota-corona/
Maybe you need more utility?
http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2912_ToyotaCoronaT40pickup.jpg
Or if your name’s Ahab, you might find this quite the catch:
http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Toyota-Crown-Kujira-Coupe-MS75-OC-01.jpg
Already sold though, sorry:
http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/kidney-anyone-ms75-kujira-toyota-crown-coupe/
I am still in the process of finding a Century, funds moved to a separate account and all. There are some BIG hurdles, but I found the one other Century owner in Norway and he is really a Crown-guy to begin with. Showed me some photos and, damn, those machines in perfect shape are a pleasure to look at!
I know a woman who blew several tires on the same day.
https://www.tirestickers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Kumho-tire-stickers-front.jpg
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If you haven’t already heard of “fanking” you might enjoy finding those gems of wordplay hidden in plain sight.
I know someone who put these on their daily and they’ve been pretty content with them after about 4 months. I’m all for any brands dropping the price floor on tires.
But how do these hold up in comparison to other tires?
Don’t know, he drives about 30-40k a year so he’s probably only 15k in on them but they’ve been fine so far.
I see tires as the most important part of the car, no competition. Bad tires negate a good chassis, good steering, good dampening – and then there’s the safety issues of driving around on what equals 4 hands on the ground. So I buy what a trusted laboratory has found to fit my use; very vary of budget tires.
It’s literally where the rubber meets the road. I used to make high end titanium bicycle frames and I’d tell anyone who asked that their money was better spent on a bitchin’ pair of wheels and tires.
It’s literally where the rubber meets the road. I used to make high end titanium bicycle frames and I’d tell anyone who asked that their money was better spent on a bitchin’ pair of wheels and tires.
Uhm, how much would such a Ti tire cost then? (brushing a credit card cluelessly against knuckles, frustrated that my initial impulse was to spend… not enough?)
Figure $750-$3000 for handbuilt wheels from somebody like Sugar Wheel Works in Portland https://sugarwheelworks.com/ plus $100-200 each for Vittoria, Dugast or Challenge handmade tires. You can get good bang for buck with $500-$1000 ready made wheels and some $60 tires. Personally my “road” bike runs low end Easton wheels and Panaracer Pasela tires, and gets a lot of its ride quality from 32C tires instead of the more usual 25C
Agreed. I’m more of the “cheap car, quality tires” kind of driver.
Haha, I once found myself in a situation where I had to explain that driving with 3 of 4 brakes was preferable to mounting DingDongDeluxe supermarked tires on a newish vehicle in ship shape…and I stand by one rear caliper being temporarily stuck as the lesser evil. That would be a great thing to see tested on Top Gear etc. …
Haha, I once found myself in a situation where I had to explain that driving with 3 of 4 brakes was preferable to mounting DingDongDeluxe supermarked tires on a newish vehicle in ship shape…and I stand by one rear caliper being temporarily stuck as the lesser evil. That would be a great thing to see tested on Top Gear etc. …
If these are good for anything, at least the dingus who turns off stability whenever they get in the car and does burnouts leaving every Cars + Coffee will now be going much slower when they lose control.
I have these on my rear wheels on one of my cars. they keep the back end of the car reliably off the ground, so I’m happy.
yes, I could have bought better tires and marginally reduced my stopping distance. I could also have bought a new car that has more airbags, collision detection, stability control, and all kinds of other stuff that keeps me safe. every decision we make is on a spectrum of safety vs cost effectiveness. the added cost of “good” tires doesn’t really make you all that much safer; tire performance vs cost is far from linear.
It’s absolutely a spectrum, but you really want to be on the “good” side of said spectrum with tires, especially when driving an older car where there is less safety margin. Good tires really can be the difference between an expensive crash (thus negating the cost savings of driving an older car) and an interesting story. If only there were testing of tires after 10k of actual road usage I suspect that both cheap and expensive tires would not prove to be a good value.
In any case, as long as the driver is paying attention and replacing their tires when they are cycled out, even if not legally worn out, everything will be fine, but we know who often buys the cheapest tires on the market.
I’m still skeptical. didn’t find a lot of data with a quick search but like for like (ie Mucho Macho all season vs brand name all season), I’d like to see stopping distances compared. i don’t think you’ll see a whole lot of difference.
summer tires and snow tires vs no-seasons are probably a significant difference, but most people don’t fuck with two sets of tires. the expensive tires will ride quieter, last longer, and be more durable, and maybe they’ll even be safer, but i don’t think they’ll be safer by enough to justify the cost alone. we’re talking a couple hundred dollars for a set. that’s a lot.
believe me, i value good rubber for performance cars. but for a regular car that you just dick around town in and might not keep more than 5,000 more miles, i don’t see a lot of sense in splurging on tires.
There is differences, 25-30 feet seems like quite a lot.
https://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Article/2019-All-Season-Tyre-Performance-Overview.htm
that’s about a 20% difference between the best and worst, and the price difference between the best and worst tires is probably like 50% or more. I don’t want to minimize the value of 20%, but it’s not in line with the price difference. too, the performance benefit becomes less pronounced when you factor in driver reaction time, which is a very significant portion of stopping distance in real world scenarios and is unaffected by your choice of tire.
again, not saying it makes no difference, but reading some of the commentary on the internet you’d think cheap tires are a death sentence. they’re not. they’re fine. sometimes they’re the appropriate choice.
as an addendum I’ll admit 20% is more than I expected. next time i go shopping it might be worth doing the research and buying the cheap tires that only perform 10% worse.
I gotta side with wunno here. The last two cars I’ve bought got cheap, no name tires thrown onto them and I had no worries about them. The Kaiser was a 70 year old hooptie that originally ran rock hard bias plys, so the Custom 428 A/S tires (yes, that was what they were named) were certainly an improvement. And the ’78 Fiat Spider got a set of cheapo tires from Walmart simply due to the fact that no one else seems to make 13″ tires anymore.
Crappy tires with tongue-in-cheek names > Crappy tires with boring names.
Picked up a set of Federal Evoluzion ST1s… $103 each shipped for a 285/35/18. Cheep.
Mounted to 18x10s AMs I got from CL for the GT for street use.
We’ll see how they work.
I’m a tire snob yet I put a set of Waterfall Eco Dynamic tires on our Abarth at $39 each – despite previously having Continental ExtremeContact tires. Saved $70 each tire, had them Road Force balanced, all were true and round barely requiring weights. On the road they’re slightly less responsive, perhaps due to less stiff sidewalls but such a small difference as to be inconsequential. They’re only less grippy on wet concrete but seem equal everywhere else and I kept nearly $300 to apply towards the Honda Dream I’m restoring.
Priorities. Anyway, we’ll see how they hold up over the coming years …