Guide to Best-Selling Firestone Tires

Firestone tires come in a wide variety of sizes for your car, crossover, SUV, or light truck. However, if you’re in the market for high-performance tires, your choices from Firestone can be limited. Here’s a rundown of Firestone’s best-selling tires.

Destination LE 3: All-Season Road Performance for Trucks and SUVs

Firestone Destination LE3

$150 to $250 per tire
The Destination LE 3 is designed and engineered for utility vehicles and pickup trucks that stay on the pavement. It’s one of the most highly-rated all-season tires. The Destination LE 3 is especially impressive in dry, hot weather conditions; summer storms are when this tire really shines. They are also capable performers in light snow thanks to full-depth 3D siping that creates multiple biting edges.

Hydro-Grip technology with wide circumferential grooves evacuates water for hydroplaning and wet weather control. Reviewers found the Destination LE 3 to be very quiet, too. These tires come with a five-year/70,000 mile treadwear warranty.

Destination AT 2: All-Terrain Tires for Pickups, SUVs, and Jeeps

Firestone Destination AT 2

$160 to $295 per tire
For those who choose to take the path less traveled, the Destination AT 2 All-Terrain features aggressive tread for rough and tough terrain. It offers grip for both on- and off-road travel. The tire features special “stone rejectors” between the tread blocks, preventing small rocks from embedding in the tread and keeping the tires performing longer.

The tire is also three-peak mountain snowflake rated for severe weather, ready to handle what Mother Nature throws your way. Testers were especially impressed with traction in heavy snow. Available in popular 16- through 22-inch truck and SUV sizes to fit a wide range of compatible vehicles. A 55,000-mile treadwear warranty is included.

Firehawk Indy 500: Ultra-High-Performance Summer Tire

Firestone Firehawk Indy 500

$150 to $300 per tire
Built on years of racing heritage, Firehawk Indy 500s are developed specifically for drivers of sports cars, sports coupes and sedans, muscle cars, and even ultra high-performance SUVs. This is the tire for those who want exceptional grip, braking, handling, and overall impressive performance in both wet and dry conditions. The Firehawk Indy 500 is a summer tire and therefore not intended to be driven in near-freezing or frigid temperatures.

This tire looks fantastic. Combining long-link carbon and a state-of-the-art silica-enhanced tread, the Firehawk Indy 500 shortens braking distances and makes handling, cornering, and steering more precise. Enthusiasts love both the value and the performance of the Firehawk Indy 500. This tire does not come with a treadwear warranty.

Winterforce LT: Leave Snow And Slush in the Dust

Firestone Winterforce LT

$190 to $250 per tire
The Winterforce LT is Firestone’s light truck and SUV studdable winter snow tire, designed for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vans, SUVs, and pickup trucks. Firestone Winterforce LT winter/snow radials feature an aggressive directional tread pattern with siped tread blocks that can be studded to provide traction in snow and on ice.

They are made from a winter tread compound and are branded with the three-peak mountain snowflake (3PMSF) symbol. The Winterforce tire does not carry a treadwear or road hazard warranty, although the tire is known to last a surprisingly long time.

Firestone Tire History

You could say that Harvey Firestone reinvented the wheel. When he started The Firestone Company in Akron, Ohio, almost 125 years ago, he changed the way we drive. In 1900, the first Firestone tires were used on horse-drawn carriages, wagons and buggies. In 1906, Henry Ford chose Firestone to be the original equipment tires on all new Ford cars.

Five short years later, Ray Harroun’s Marmon Wasp won the first Indy 500 riding on Firestone tires. Firestone left the sport after 1974 and returned in 1995, adding a record 65 victories in the next 100 races. Today, Firestone, one of the top-selling tire brands in the US with over 2,200 retail service locations, has been owned by Bridgestone Tire since 1988.