A driving shoe and a tire are not so different. Both exist for one thing — contact. Rubber on pedal, rubber on road. One connects foot to machine, the other machine to asphalt. And both are designed, first and foremost, to give us grip. Of course, there are plenty of big names in the tire game: Bridgestone, Goodyear, Pirelli. But in driving shoes, one name speeds ahead: Tod’s.