• Mike Manges

    Editor
    Phone: (330) 573-2974

    Mike Manges is Modern Tire Dealer’s editor. A 28-year tire industry veteran, he is a three-time International Automotive Media Association Award winner, holds a Gold Award from the Association of Automotive Publication Editors and was named a finalist for the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Award - often referred to as "the Pulitzer Prize of business-to-business media" - in 2024. He also was named Endeavor Business Media's Editor of the Year in 2024. Mike has traveled the world in pursuit of stories that will help independent tire dealers move their businesses forward. Before rejoining MTD in 2019, he held corporate communications positions at two Fortune 500 companies and served as MTD’s senior editor from 2000 to 2010. 

    MTD
    “Our original thesis was to grow from 20 to 150 stores in five years,” Joe Buscaglia, CEO of Big Brand Tire & Service, told MTD. “We’ve grown from 20 to 253 in four years.”
    Mike Manges
    April 30, 2025
    Big Brand Tire & Service plans to quadruple its store count within the next five years by investing in its people and technology, according to CEO Joe Buscaglia.
    McMahon’s Best-One Tire 
    It’s important to follow a well-defined process when on-boarding acquired employees, according to Kim McMahon of McMahon’s Best-One Tire (with partners, Randy Geyer, left, and Bubba McMahon.)
    Mike Manges
    April 25, 2025
    When integrating new employees, it helps to have a good understanding of human nature, says Kim McMahon, co-owner of McMahon’s Best-One Tire.
    ENSO
    'We’ve already seen strong interest in funding our facility,” ENSO CEO Gunnlaugur Erlendsson told MTD. “Capital is the easiest part of the equation. The key is to figure out where in America we want to find a home.”
    Mike Manges
    April 15, 2025
    United Kingdom-based company ENSO is still looking for a place in the United States to build a plant that will solely make electric vehicle tires.
    Burt Brothers Tire & Service Inc.
    North Salt Lake, Utah-based Burt Brothers Tire & Service Inc. is one of many independent tire dealerships that have added locations within the last six months.
    Mike Manges
    April 8, 2025
    The economy may be teetering on the edge of a recession, but you wouldn’t know it based on the number of independent tire dealerships that have added stores.
    MTD
    The new Scorpion XTM AT is the first tire in Pirelli Tire North America's newly introduced Scorpion XTM range.
    Mike Manges
    April 3, 2025
    Pirelli Tire North America launched the Scorpion XTM AT at a ride-and-drive event in Death Valley, Calif. - and MTD was there!
    MTD
    'A/T is an iconic segment,' Ian Coke, Pirelli North America chief technical officer, told MTD when discussing the new Pirelli Scorpion XTM AT (pictured.) 'We want to be known as a tier-one in the A/T world.'
    Mike Manges
    March 31, 2025
    Pirelli Tire North America is targeting the all-terrain segment with a new tire that’s also the first product in a new line.