Five year old article on the "15 inch tire problem"

Agreed with the suggestion that these have no defined purpose, especially in these “normal” sizes. It’s like they made a tire to compete with the M/T Sportsman street rod tires and just happened to make smaller sizes too.

The tread looks almost like an all season pattern but not quite.

The one obvious advantage they have is that their speed rating accommodates the bulk of cars running that tire size since few of them would be capable of exceeding their speed rating in the quarter mile.