Bought the set currently on the Landcruiser for £115 each probably 7 years ago, Yokohama GO15 all season ATs, they're currently £108 at Camskill.

I think tyre prices have dialed back a bit from the eye opening rises we saw over the last 3 years, whch makes one wonder what legislation or taxes our motorist hating govts can dream up to make tyres much more unaffordable.

Are you calling from America ? We still spell them with a Y over here :-) Don't be ruled by the spell-checker !

What doesn't help is how tyres aren't so 'standard', size-wise (i.e. commonplace) across many makes and models of car any more.

There are so many (needless) variants and also cars that hardly can be called 'performance' equipped with large diameter wheels and wide, low profile tyres, that often ruin the ride quality and/or drastically reduce the lifespan of the tyres, wheels and suspension parts, all pushing the price to the consumer up (we never asked for either IMHO) and giving dealerships and tyre outlets far more business.

For example, the original tyres on my 2005 built Mazda3 were very common 205/55 R16, costing (for decent tyres, not including fitting) £70 each back in 2012 and £52 (with a special discount, normally £60) each for the latest set where I downsized to 195/65 R15 (the old size were around the same price as in 2012, which is good as the new tyres were even better and all-season.

Both were and still are amongst the most common tyres, fitted to many supermini and Focus sized cars across many makes built from the early 2000s to the mid 2010s, a few still are today.

Currently the same ones (latest version) of them cost £80 (though a near rival costs only £65, and they all were similarly priced back in 2018) and £92 respectively (smaller size first).

The latest version of my car equipped with a new, not-so-common 205/60 R16 tyres (a sort of half-way house between my two sizes but can't legally be fitted to mine without a speedo recalibration if that's possible) cost £122 each.

Even with the big inflationary pressures over the last 3 years, the newer size (which isn't that common over other cars/makes) is a third more expensive than my old 16in ones and 50% more than the 15in ones, and I doubt if you'd notice much (if any) difference in handling between them, the only main difference is a better ride quality on the higher profile tyres on my car because the springs and dampers are old and letting the tyres do more work helps.

The 15in ones would be best there because they have the highest sidewall of the three tyre sizes. No noticeable difference otherwise. One thing to note is how all my tyres lasted a long time (and distance) and have avoided damage from potholes, unlike many other locals with car equipped with low profile tyres.

I suspect its the tyre and car manufacturers making the big money,m less so those actually carrying out the work on our cars, as they are likely being charged high prices.

I also suspect them (and perhaps some major parts suppliers for the former) being in cahoots as explained above in order to facilitate more 'business', rather like many home electronics and white goods manufacturers are supposedly building in shorter 'planned obsolescence' periods into products in order to get more trade, whether via extortionate pricing for replacement parts (including little modularisation or compatibility/standardisation), fitting costs and thus often forcing customers to buy an entirely new product because a small repair costs a hefty percentage of the product replacement price (which isn't cheap).

Welcome to the wonderful world of corporatism / globalism.