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The End for Firestone If Ford Customers Choose Michelin? just-auto.com Reports

29 September 2000

The End for Firestone If Ford Customers Choose Michelin? just-auto.com Reports

    LONDON, Sept. 29 http://www.just-auto.com -- Firestone now
faces competition from French tire maker, Michelin, as The Ford Motor Company
plans to let customers choose their tire brand on the 2002 Explorer SUV.
    The report by Reuters at
http://www.just-auto.com/news_detail.asp?art=14903 says that Ford has signed a
contract with Michelin for it to supply tires for the Explorer.
    Following the tire recall, the future looks bleak for Firestone.  A Ford
spokeswoman said about the tires, "Consumers will ultimately decide and Ford
would not be surprised if the bulk of the tires end up being Michelin."

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http://www.just-auto.com/news_detail.asp?art=14903

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