Kumho Solus KR21 Passenger All-Seasonr Tire
Kumho Solus KR21 is a premim-class all-season tire for various cars from sporty passenger cars and crossovers to powerful family sedans, minivans and vans. It succeeds Kumho 732 and Kumho 795 models and features exclusive tread pattern and revised internal construction to deliver excellent dry and wet handling coupled with durable handling and comfortable running.
The tire’s tread picture includes cross shoulder grooves to enhance snow traction and four wide circumferential grooves to effectively remove water and slush from under the contact patch area, which in the end prevent from hydroplaning while two wavy grooves in the central tread area further enhance traction on water film and on slush. There’re also three stiff ribs that improve your vehicle’s course-keeping ability.
Kumho Solus KR21 is optimized with the help of the company’s ESCOT technology that translates as “Excellent & Smart Contour Optimization Theory” and guarantees an excellent blend of handling and comfort thanks to the use of computer modeling during the tire development.
The tire is made from durable rubber compound that includes carbon elements to enhance wet and snow traction while ensuring a long life span and superb damage resistance. As a result, the company grants the tire a 85,000-mile warranty on tread wear.
Kumho Solus KR21 is available in 50 sizes to equip a number of modern vehicles and comes with T speed rating and higher.
Fulda Kristall Control HP Passenger Winter Tire
Fulda Kristall Control HP is a high-quality non-studded winter tire for a wide range of medium-duty and powerful passenger cars. The tire belongs to the company’s High Performance lineup and benefits from a number of its innovative technologies to deliver reliable performance and comfortable handling.
The tire is designed for most severe wintertime conditions. Its compound is molded into directional tread pattern with a solid central rib and wide shoulder areas. The tread picture includes extra deep grooves with excellent self-cleaning ability to ensure reliable traction on snow-covered roads. The tire is also protected from skidding on slippery surfaces thanks to numerous sipes with sharp biting edges.
Fulda Kristall Control HP is equipped with the company’s Snow Catcher technology that helps the grooves contract to catch snow in the footprint area, which enhances traction on both loose and compact snow hence improving the tire’s performance in wintertime.
The tire was compounded with the help of silica and functional polymers that were included into the structure of its rubber compound to ensure the tire’s softness under sub-freezing temperature as well as provides for its resilience for optimal traction on ice and in the wet.
Fulda Kristall Control HP features a durable casing, which helps it endure significant loads without any deformation as well as safeguards the tire from mechanical damage. The tire is available with H and V speed rating.
Kumho Road Venture AT KL78 Light Truck Tire
Kumho Road Venture AT KL78 is an all-season tire for light trucks, sport utility vehicles, pickups and crossovers. It belongs to the company’s Road Venture AT lineup and has all the advanced features typical of latest generation tires.
The tire is designed for highway as well as off-road use and can easily adapt to various weather conditions while absorbing road irregularities. It delivers predictable handling and reliable grip anytime, which in conjunction with excellent durability, long mileage and low-noise operation makes it an ideal tire for your vehicle.
The tire’s tread picture includes longitudinal Z-shaped grooves that work in collaboration with numerous lateral grooves and sipes to ensure a firm grip in both on-road and off-the-road conditions. Deep and wide circumferential grooves, in their turn, quickly and efficiently evacuate water from under the contact patch area thus enhancing handling and reducing braking distance on wet surfaces. The grooves feature great self-cleaning ability, which helps the tread stay clean from snow and mud.
On the inside the Kumho Road Venture AT KL78 has durable steel belts and seamless nylon layers to safeguard the tire’s constant shape as well as improve its high-speed performance. The tire is made from damage-resistant rubber compound, which protects it from cuts and punctures even in toughest driving environment.
Fulda Carat Extremo Passenger Summer Tire
Fulda Carat Extremo is a passenger tire with summertime operation. It delivers high-quality traction on wet pavement and great acoustic comfort coupled with long life span and reliable driver-wheel feedback.
The tire compound is molded into directional tread picture with a lot of directional drainage grooves that instantly evacuate water from under the contact patch area and in this way prevent from hydroplaning in foul weather. At the same time, the groove design promotes long wear.
The tire tread is optimized towards reliable speeding up and braking performance while its contour ensures stable driving over water film as well as excellent wear resistance. There’re non-symmetric curved grooves on the tire’s shoulders that create a great number of sharp biting edges to ensure a short braking distance on slippery surfaces.
There’re stiff longitudinal ribs in the central tread area, which helps cancel sound waves and minimize noise the tire generate on the road. Furthermore, wide shoulder blocks improve driving stability and road-wheel contact.
Fulda Carat Extremo belongs to an ultra-high performance segment and comes with W & Y speed ratings. It is an excellent choice for powerful passenger cars, high-speed sedans and coups.
Fulda Kristall Montero 3 Passenger Winter Tire
Fulda Kristall Montero 3 is a non-studded wither tire for passenger cars. The tire is the third model from the line up and features an optimized tread picture, a reinforced casing and revised rubber compound. It combines the best technologies of its predecessors and is designed to outperform them in a number of respects.
The tire’s tread picture is created with the help of the Snow Catcher technology, which presupposes numerous sipes that grip snow and enhance traction and handling on snow-covered roads. There you can see a central rib to improve course-keeping ability while the number of drainage grooves was increased to ensure better hydroplaning resistance. The grooves excellently cut water film and evacuate water and slush from under the footprint area.
The new Bubble-Blade rubber compound was worked out specially for sub-freezing temperatures and makes tread blocks stiff enough for driving on both dry and wet road surfaces as well as for compact and loose snow.
Fulda Kristall Montero 3 features a reinforced casing that significantly enhances the tire durability as well as prolongs the tire’s life span.
The tire was testes by the ADAC auto club and got a “Highly Recommended” mark thanks to its balanced features, great fuel-efficiency and totally predictable performance on various types of wintertime road surfaces.
Michelin Unveils the New Defender Tire for Passenger Tires
At the NAIAS show Michelin unveiled the new tire for passenger cars. The company calls its Defender model the real breakthrough in standard passenger tire segment. It delivers safety driving, fuel-efficient operation and exceptionally long mileage coupled with excellent price / quality ratio.
The tire’s braking distance is 9.5 meters shorter than that of Goodyear Assurance ComforTred Touring. It also provides for excellent wet grip similar to that of Michelin HydroEdge. In addition, snow traction was enhanced by 15 per cent.
Michelin Defender also improves your vehicle’s fuel consumption, which is indicated by the Green X symbol on its sidewall. Its rolling resistance was lowered by 17 per cent in comparison to its predecessor, which helps drivers save up to $250 during the tire’s service term.
The tire is made under the IntelliSipe innovative technology to stabilize tread blocks and optimize the quantity of sipes. It also makes the tire lightweight, which guarantees that rolling resistance is reduced without compromise on driver and passenger safety.
Michelin Defender has a MaxTouch Construction, which presupposes the unique footprint shape to evenly distribute load over it and enhance speeding up and braking performance as well cornering stability. At the same time, the technology provide for even abrasion, which results into a long mileage.
The tire will be available in April 2012 in 38 sizes from 175/70R13 to 225/50R18 to equip a great number of passenger cars around.
Continental ContiSportContact 3 SSR RunFlat Summer SUV Tire
Continental ContiSportContact 3 SSR is a summer tire for powerful passenger cars, luxurious sedans and coups as well as high-performance sport utility vehicles. The tire’s hallmarks include excellent grip, superb steering precision, and a short braking distance on dry as well as wet road surfaces.
The tire compound is molded into an asymmetrical tread picture with longitudinal ribs to improve driver-wheel feedback while wide circumferential grooves instantly evacuate water from under the footprint thus ensuring ultimate hydroplaning protection and promoting safe driving in foul weather.
Continental ContiSportContact 3 comes after the high-quality ContiSportContact 2 model and offers enhanced performance in comparison to its predecessor. It delivers a 5 per cent shorter braking distance while hydroplaning resistance was increased by 6 per cent. At the same time the tire is 5 per cent more durable and is less subject to lateral skidding.
The tire is equipped with the Self-Supporting RunFlat system that presupposes a special sidewall construction to ensure your vehcile’s extended mobility in case of complete pressure loss. So if you get a puncture you may be sure to go on driving for another 50 miles at a speed of 50 mph, which is enough to arrive at a tire fitting center where you can replace the tire.
Fulda EcoControl HP Summer Tire for Passenger Cars
Although the year has been just started, Fulda is looking forward to the summer season and starts the promotion of its new EcoControl HP passenger tire model. It has been tested by TUV SUD Automotive independent expert and shows effective wet and dry braking coupled with low rolling resistance.
The tire delivers both reliable handling as well as great fuel efficiency. It features twin ribs in shoulder areas to ensure a firm road-wheel contact during braking thus reducing braking distance in the dry by 5 per cent.
The tire’s made from silica-based rubber compound to enhance wet traction while AquaFlow drainage grooves instantly cut water film and evacuate water from under the contact patch area. As a result, braking distance in the wet was reduced by 9 per cent.
Fulda equipped the tire with its Engineered Compound Technology and EcoTread lowers rolling resistance by 9 per cent.
Fulda EcoControl HP was made from special nano-compound that joins key elements into a thick network on a micro level, which helps prolong mileage while silica elements improve traction and safety. At the same time, even load distribution over the footprint makes running smooth and comfortable.
The tire was designed specially for rainy summers and performs reliable in changeable weather. It is available in 22 sizes with 15- and 16-inch rim diameters.
Sumitomo Unveiles a Series of New Tires at Tokyo Auto Show
The visitors of Tokyo Auto Show were lucky to see new tires from different tire makers. One of them, Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. unveiled there a concept tire made from natural non-oil materials as well as several new tires.
In 2001 Sumitomo became excluding “black gold” from itsindusrty. By 2005 the amount of oil products in its rubber compound was reduced by 30 per cent and the world saw the Dunlop Enasave 70 tire. Three years later there came the Dunlop Enasave 97 tire that was compounded from non-oil materials and included 97 per cent of them.
After that Sumitomo was doing a pofound research to find out alternative sources of three materials, namely antioxidants, vulcanization fasteners and technical carbon. The fist two ones are made now from biomass that is as durable as standard materials, so the tires resist abrasion well.
Technical carbon is traditionally derived from oil and coal while now it’s made from the same biomass, which in the end allowed making the tire totally from natural materials and exclude oil from production cycles.
Now Sumitomo tests the new tire durability and thinks of putting new concept tire to mass production. The eco-friendly tire called the Enasave 100 is expected to hit the markets in 2013.
At the same time, the company unveiled the new Dunlop Enasave Premium tire that got an AAA mark for its low rolling resistance. It is compounded under the 4D Nano design technology while its rolling resistance was reduced by 6 per cent in comparison to its predecessor. It shows good wet traction as well.
Sumitomo also showed off new commercial tires, the Dunlop Enasave VAN01 and Enasave SP LT38, both featuring enhanced fuel efficiency. The tires will be available this year (2012).
Yokohama Geolander SUV New Tire
Together with an eco-friendly BluEarth-A tire Yokohama has unveiled a new model for sport utility vehicles. The Geolander SUV tire will appear on the market in February 2012.
The company states in its press release that the type of cars the tire is designed for becomes more and more popular nowadays. So called “off-roaders” and sport utility vehicles can manage cross-country terrain but in the essence they are intended for use on city roads and highways.
The new Yokohama Geolandar SUV tire offers car owners unsurpassed comfort in combination with fuel efficient operation and a high level of driver and passenger safety.
The tire has low rolling resistance. It was reduced by 16 per cent as compared to Geolandar H/T-S G051. At the same time, the tire braking distance was shortened by 16 per cent while noise level appeared to be 21 per cent lower than that of the tire’s predecessor.
Yokohama Geolander SUV is branded with a “BluEarth” marking on its sidewall to indicate its eco-friendliness.