I had a look around Arnold Clark Skoda in Inverness just before Christmas, and three of the new cars in the showroom were fitted with Nexens.

I've just ordered 4 x Nexen Npriz 4S All season Tyres for our Yeti, we started fitting All Season Tyres on our works cars & vans, I have been very impressed by there wear rate & general grip (especially in the wet). I will try to do a small review in a month or so.

This shows the relative obscurity (or otherwise) of the manufacturers mentioned above - next to each other and just below Nokian (hardly obscure). But notice how much further up the list Giti (GT, Runway brands etc.) and ZC (Westlake etc.) are.

www.tyrepress.com/leading-tyre-manufacturers/