There’s a market for a high performance 15” street tire

I agree. It seems a little silly not to have at least one performance 15" tire in profiles we need. But you can see that the tire companies think the Cooper Cobra and BFG T/As are the most marketable options. I hope that changes.

Sales volume drives manufacturing. So I went with 18s.

7tsportsroof said:

Sales volume drives manufacturing. So I went with 18s.

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Yep! The 15" good news is BFG T/A's are good for smokey burnouts on anything over 95 hp!

I’d love it if someone re-popped the Yoko AVS Intermediate.

Here's close to what you seek.

awhtx said:

Here's close to what you seek.

http://www.vitourtires.com/index.php/home/english/proview/id/135.html

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We had a member run these on an open track and the report was lukewarm.

Plus supply chain, no one has them.

Bring back the 80's BFG Comp T/A. It's not like BFG doesn't have the molds or who knows, maybe they tossed them in the ocean with John DeLoreans stuff

Avon makes some high performance 15 inch street tires. They are radials that look a bit like bias.
There is also the Hoosier option. The vintage race tires are dot approved. Hoosier does not recommend them for highway use. I use mine on the street. They are fine for what limited use my classic mustang gets.
That said. I would love a good 200 tread wear tire in 15 inch sizes. I will likely go 17 or even 18 inch since that is where the supply is at.

hotrodfords said:

Plus supply chain, no one has them.

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Apparently the Fleabay sellers have them in some sizes.

The Firestone SZ50EP was a great tire in our size, WAS.

There's only a few semi performances touring tires available in black wall only, but I'm just glad they are still made. I don't know why no tire company makes anything else since it would sell.

The only thing high performance would be something like Hoosier or Avon track tires or Pirelli P6000 at 350-400 bucks each.

I refuse to switch to 17 inch wheels, ain't happening on my car.

Maybe we need to start a new petition on change.org.

Unfortunately I think outside of drag radials there is a very small market for high performance 15” tires.

The trend is bigger and bigger wheels. Look at any high end build. If it is a high end resto then it likely has bias tires any way. We are a minority that think tires with sidewalls look good.

Always wondered about them.

jdub said:

Always wondered about them.

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I don't know how well they are for gripping around sharp curves and corners at speed, but I generally don't drive like that. They are H speed rated for up to 130 mph.

I went up to 225/50/16. They did rub everywhere with the required 16x8 4.5" BS wheels. Nothing some fender rolling wouldn't cure. I felt it was the best compromise of tire selection and tire profile. I'd definitely prefer they were 15s, but you can't argue with the selection of performance tires.

There's also this thread about 15 inch tires that covers some of the good ones that are currently available. I'm running 215 60 16 Cooper CS5 Ultra Touring and really like them, but they are now discontinued. Also like my old Yokohama YK520 but they are also discontinued. Right now if I needed tires I'd look at General Altimax but I like the nice clean looks of the Uniroyal Tiger Paw. There's also a few from Yokohama Falken and Hankook I think that would probably be good, but nothing too exciting about them.

The 15" Tire "What is left that's...

Guys, the OP specified a size 275/50/15 and I doubt that General, Uniroyal, Cooper, Yokohama, Falken or any of the other companies mentioned are going to have anything even close to that size.