Many moons ago, 1962 to be exact, I bought a 40 Ford 2dr sedan and it had Pirelli 5.50 or 5.60 /15"s up front and I believe Firestone 7.75/15"s or some such size out back. It handled fairly decent for a straight axle and when the Pirelli's wore out I replaced them with Firestones and what a difference and not for the better. I don't know about today, but in earlier years a lot of the exotics out of Italy and Europe came with Pirellii's, not Michelin's, as standard. Michelins's are good tires, I just don't care for them as I believe they are over priced.