Bridgestone Turanza ER370 Comfortable Summer Tire for Passenger Cars
Bridgestone Turanza ER370 is a passenger summer tire with enhanced comfort. It delivers powerful handling and a firm grip on both wet and dry surfaces coupled with superb course-keeping ability.
The tire offers balanced operation and has an optimal blend of features to ensure efficient wet operation and predictable maneuvering. Its tread is divided into two zones, an outer and inner one, by a central rib that provides for straight-line stability and precise driver-wheel feedback.
Both tread zones are responsible for their own tasks, depending on weather conditions. The inner tread features lateral grooves that pump water out of the footprint area and prevent from lateral skidding on slippery surfaces. At the same time, outer tread elements enhance dry handling.
All in all, the Bridgestone Turanza ER370 tread is cut with multiple drainage channels and directional grooves while its symmetrically-designed with sharp biting edges improve your safety in the dry as well as in the wet. Everything is coupled with smooth and quiet operation and great passenger and driver comfort.
Dunlop Sport Maxx Race Summer Tire for Sports Cars
Together with the Dunlop Sport Maxx RT, the company has unveiled the Sport Maxx Race on a racing track of Ascari Race Resort. Both tires belong to the company’s Ultra-High Performance segment and has already proven to deliver truly sporty handling.
Both tires were tested on Spanish roads first and were shown later on in Ascari. The public really enjoyed he show thanks to the choice of cars that match these superb tires. They were mounted on such vehicles as Mercedes C63 AMG Black Series, Audi TT and R8, as well as BMW Z4.
Dunlop Sport Maxx Race summer tire offers excellent dry traction. Its rubber compound includes the polymers typically used for sporty tires as well as special softeners to enhance grip. The compound can also adapt to various weather conditions and different types of road surfaces.
The tire’s tread picture includes four wide circumferential grooves to cut water film while lateral grooves further reduce the risk of hydroplaning by evacuating water from under the tire’s footprint.
On the inside, the tire features hybrid belts with aramid layers. Aramid is an exceptionally durable and heat-resistant material used as well for making planes and space ships.
Dunlop Sport Maxx Race is an excellent sporty tire. It is one of the racing tires that can be also used on standard public roads.
General Eurovan 2 Commercial Summer Tire
General Tire looks forward to a new summer season and together with two winter tires, the Eurovan Winter and the Altimax Winter Plus, it unveiled a commercial tire with summertime handling, the second-generation Eurovan 2.
The tire delivers superb durability and wear resistance, as the tire-maker claims. Moreover, it offers efficient traction on both dry and wet roads. The new tread design enhances speeding up and braking performance in any situation as well as ensures excellent cornering grip alongside with straight-line stability.
General Eurovan 2 features superb hydroplaning protection system thanks to three wide circumferential grooves that quickly pump water out of the contact patch area to ensure safe handling in the wet.
At the same time stiff tread blocks enhance longitudinal and lateral traction while shifted shoulder grooves absorb noise waves thus providing for quiet operation and unsurpassed driver and passenger comfort.
General Eurovan Winter Light Truck Commercial Tire
Together with the Altimax Winter Plus General tire launches the tire for commercial vehicles, the General Eurovan Winter. The latter is designed for light trucks like sport utility vehicles, vans and minivans and offers excellent traction and a short braking distance in severest wintertime conditions.
The company advertizes the tire as the one delivering safe maneuverability even on water film and on slush while its precise steering response would please even most demanding drivers. The tire also ensures superb speeding up performance on both dry and wet and snow-covered surfaces.
The tire’s wintertime tread pattern includes wide drainage channels in shoulder areas minimize hydroplaning by effectively evacuating water and slush from under the contact patch area, which is as well true for sharp cornering.
There’re also wide zigzag grooves in a central tread area to remove moisture while the blocks between them are covered with three-dimensional sipes create numerous biting edges that cut into ice and snow and in this way ensure a firm grip on slippery surfaces.
General Eurovan Winter features stiff tread blocks to stabilize straight-line and cornering performance as well as educe braking distance in the dry as well as in the wet. The tire also shows even load distribution over the footprint area, which reduces tread wear and increases the tire’s mileage.
General Altimax Winter Plus New Passenger Tire
General Altimax Winter Plus is a new passenger tire for European cars. It is designed to provide for your vehicle’s excellent road-holding ability on snow-covered roads roads as well as on water film and on slush.
The tire’s compound is molded into a directional tread picture with a great number of wide lateral grooves to ensure efficient water and slush evacuation from under the footprint area, which minimizes the risk of hydroplaning in foul weather as well as shortens braking distance and enhances cornering grip.
The tire features a Z-shaped central groove holds snow that interacts with the snow on the road to increase traction and lateral stability on snow and ice. At the same time, there’re a lot of three-dimensional sipes with sharp edges to ensure “sticky” traction on slippery surfaces.
General Altimax Winter Plus is made from durable rubber compound that shows enhanced wear resistance and can successfully endure mechanical damage like cracks and tearing. The tire is also optimized towards even abrasion, which significantly prolongs its mileage.
Dunlop Sport Maxx RT High Performance Summer Tire
Dunlop Sport Maxx RT is a new summer tire with ultra-high performance. The tire is designed for daily use with sporty passenger cars and equips them with racing-like handling and an excellent balance between sporty operation and practical purpose.
During the tire development Dunlop aimed at high-quality traction so it used racing compound for it. There’re special polymers in the structure of its compound to help the tire adapt to various road irregularities and deliver a firm grip regardless of road conditions.
Dunlop Sport Maxx RT compound is molded into an asymmetrical tread picture with large shoulder blocks and peculiarly shaped ribs to ensure enhanced stiffness during lateral loads, which improves cornering grip.
The tire features plain sidewalls with aerodynamic design and “engraved” lettering to reduce aerodynamic resistance. At the same time, the tire has a lightweight construction, which lowers rolling resistance and optimizes your vehicle’s fuel consumption as well as minimizes heat buildup.
Dunlop Sport Maxx RT has undergone a series of TÜV SÜD independent tests that showed a 7 per cent shorter braking distance than that of its closest rivals. Its rolling resistance, in its turn, is 11 per cent lower.
The tire will be available with 16-, 17- and 18-inch rim diameters. Its target group is luxurious sport cars from Audi, Maserati, BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes AMG, etc.
Continental ContiMaxContact MC5 Sporty Summer Tire
Continental ContiMaxContact MC5 is a new summer tire for sporty vehicles. It is intended for an Asian market and shows excellent quality typical of the German brand including reliable traction and predictable handling coupled with reduced noise level.
The tire is equipped with an active noise absorbing system that was earlier used for the Continental ContiComfortContact CC5, the one that was called the most comfortable tire of 2011 in China. The company claims that the noise generated by the tire is 8 per cent lower than that of the majority of sporty tires.
Continental ContiComfortContact CC5 features special polymers in the structure of its rubber compound to help it quickly adapt to different surfaces, wet and dry ones, as well as ensure perfect driver-wheel feedback and provide for effective braking. At the same time, the “bionic” design of tread blocks enhances high-speed stability.
Continental took into account the peculiarities of Chinese roads and climate during the tire development as well as did their best to satisfy the demands of local consumers.
The tire indicates the company’s desire to succeed on the Asian market. It is available now in 16- and 17-inch rim diameters while in future it is planned to launch an 18-inch version.
The New Michelin Energy E-V Equips the new Renault Zoe
The new Zoe passenger vehicle from Renault comes with the Michelin Energy E-V tire that was worked out in frames of a four-year collaboration of an automotive manufacturer and tire-maker. The tire is designed specially for electric vehicles and benefits from a long-term research and features a number of innovative technologies to deliver exceptionally efficient performance.
All Renault ZOE model with 15- and 16-inch wheel disks will be equipped with Michelin Energy E-V tire that fits into Renault Range OptimiZEr strategy that is aimed at lower energy consumption. The tire, for instance, can help you save up to 6 per cent fuel on an asphalted highway (depending on your driving style.)
The main task Michelin dealt with while developing this tire was to reduce its rolling resistance and hence reduce the vehicle’s energy consumption. At the same time, the Energy E-V remains safe and reliable and performs well on wet surfaces while delivering a long life span.
Michelin used its twenty-year experience in fuel-saving technologies for its new Energy E-V tire. The result is clean and eco-friendly operation of electric vehicles, which is the exact thing Renault Zoe vehicles offer.
Tires play a key role in your vehicle’s fuel consumption for it takes 30 per cent of energy consumed by the engine. It deforms and gets hot, which leads to energy loss, so if you reduce heat buildup energy consumption will lower as well.
Dunlop Ice Touch Studded Winter Tire
Dunlop Ice Touch is a new winter tire designed specially for severe Nordic climate. It is the best choice for Northern Europe and matches wintertime weather conditions in Sweden, Finland and Baltic countries.
The tire belongs to the latest generation of studded tires and delivers stable handling on various road surfaces including black ice, deep slush as well as dry asphalt. The tire endures sub-freezing temperatures well thanks to special elements in the structure of its rubber compound that help it remain soft and resilient.
Dunlop Ice Touch was worked under the same technologies as the new Goodyear Ultra Grip Ice Arctic and features numerous biting edges to ensure a firm grip on ice and snow. The sipes are arranged in such a way so as to improve traction in all directions. There’re also special snow catchers that enhance traction in deep snow.
The tire’s tread picture also features a wide central rib that increases footprint for dynamic speeding up as well as efficient braking. You can also see deep circumferential grooves there designed to evacuate water and slush from under the contact patch area.
Dunlop Ice Touch is housed into a lightweight casing, which lowers its rolling resistance to reduce your vehicle’s fuel consumption and minimize CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
Goodyear UltraGrip Ice Arctic Winter Tire
Goodyear UltraGrip Ice Arctic is a new studded tire designed for use in most severe wintertime conditions. The tire delivers excellent handling on ice and snow and shows a short braking distance thanks to an innovative stud construction as well as a new method of stud mounting.
The tire compound is molded into traditional directional tread pattern with V-shaped elements. There you can find a thick network of sipes equipped with sharp biting edges and a system of wide lateral grooves that efficiently evacuate water and slush from under the tire footprint. Special elements distribute snow over the entire footprint while dynamic shoulders help get rid of snow on the sidewalls.
The tire features a wide footprint to ensure optimal grip in the wet and on slush as well as to enhance traction on slippery surfaces. Its compound includes silica in its structure to further improve wet traction while stiffer rubber under the silica layer stabilizes cornering and prolongs the tire’s life span.
Goodyear equips its UltraGrip Ice Arctic tire with 3D-BIS spicing technology that presupposes that sipes interact as you drive to optimize traction and shorten braking distance. The interconnected blocks, in their turn, increase the number of sipes.
Goodyear UltraGrip Ice Arctic is designed under the Multicontrol Ice technology and comes with studs as part of it. The studs are shaped and arranged in a peculiar manner , which guarantees you ultimate safety in any situation in wintertime.