In our ongoing series of Q&A blog columns, we will highlight common and interesting questions posted to our Car forums, with answers from our automotive experts.

Question: In looking at the automotive tire rating report, I could not find any information on the country of manufacture for the tires. This is a very critical and key piece of information for me in my selection of tires. It would be very helpful to me if the tire ratings included this information. I want to know where the tires are made for my decision making process. I am sure many others are in agreement with this point. Even a lot of on-line tire dealers are providing this information.

Answer: We do record the country of manufacture of every tire that we test, but we don’t report it in our tire reports for a couple of reasons. First, the same country may not produce the whole tire line--different sizes may be produced in different countries. We’ve even seen tires of the same model and size built in different locations and countries (note the Kumho Solus KR21 in the list below).