Toyo Tires has stood for innovation, quality, performance, and excellent service for over 60 years, including 40 years in the United States. Toyo
Tires has been named the #1 Overall Brand numerous times by North American tire dealers in Tire Review magazine. Although Toyo’s history is brief, it is very successful. Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. was founded in 1945 in Japan by Rikimatsu Tomihisa. Toyo is credited with being the first Japanese tire manufacturer to establish a subsidiary in the United States in 1966. Toyo Tire (USA) only warehoused and distributed commercial truck tires until 1975 when it added Toyo passenger replacement tires to its offerings. Later in the 1980’s Toyo manufactured its first tire in the USA. Since its entrance into the US market Toyo has experienced great success. Toyo’s consumer tires have been voted #1 Overall Brand by North American tire dealers an unprecedented seven times since 2000. Also, since 2002, Toyo’s medium truck tires have received the honor five times.
Since the 1990’s, Toyo Tire has established itself as a trendsetter within the tire industry. Toyo is the leader in fitments and dynamic tire applications. As the sport compact tuner market exploded, Toyo Tire responded with low profile, large rim diameter, and high-performance tires. Toyo Tire again set the pace in 2008 when they released the first-ever 26- and 28-inch passenger car tires. Less than a year later Toyo followed it up with a 30-inch passenger car tire.
Toyo Proxes tires deliver world-class performance through technology, advanced design features and unique, attractive tread patterns. The Proxes R888 is ideal for road racing, track days and high-performance driving school. The Toyo Proxes is the next-generation street legal competition tire from Toyo Tires. What makes this Toyo tire unique is its unidirectional v-shaped tread design that gives it an increased tread area and limited void space improving dry traction and v-shaped grooves to assist with wet traction. A newer development of the Proxes is the Proxes TQ, a street legal drag radial that keeps the power to the ground on high horsepower muscle cars and street machines. The Toyo Proxes TQ features a drag radial tread compound that maximizes grip and a dual-purpose asymmetric tread design.
Another form of the Toyo Proxes tire is the Proxes R1R, which is an extreme performance tire for serious street drivers who drive sports coupes and sedans. The Proxes R1R features a unidirectional arrowhead tread design that has shallow grooves and a unidirectional pattern to achieve balanced performance between wet and dry conditions. The Toyo Proxes T1R is an ultra-high performance tire designed exclusively for high-end sport sedans and coupes. The Proxes T1R features v-shaped main grooves that disperse water for better wet performance and parallel shoulder slits that help reduce irregular wear. Last but not least we have the Proxes 4, Toyo’s latest all-season ultra-high performance tire. This Toyo tire features a unique “w-shape” tread pattern, an aggressive, modern design that provides a good 
balance between wet traction and dry performance. The Proxes tire line also includes the Proxes RA1, TQ, FZ4, and TPT.
The durable Toyo Open Country A/T offers aggressive wet and snow traction for pickups, vans, and SUVs. The Toyo tire features a special wavy sipe arrangement that provides a smooth, comfortable ride and improves snow traction. The tire’s groove bottom siping offers more biting edges for increased traction in the snow. Overall, Toyo’s tires are “driven to perform.” Many of Toyo’s tires are designed specially for those who enjoy ultra-high performance cars and require tires that will wear, hold, and handle the way they need them to.