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Bridgestone MY-02 Sporty Style New Tire for Sporty Vehicles
Bridgestone MY-02 Sporty Style is a new tire for those who are in love with their sports cars. The tire has been recently launched and unveiled in Bangkok.
The tire is peculiar by is advanced tread picture with zigzag-shaped drainage grooves to enhance traction as well as by extra large tread blocks to optimize handling on both dry and wet tread surfaces. Four wide circumferential grooves, in their turn, remove water from under the footprint area.
The grooves are arranged with a shift towards each other, which lower noise level and provides for comfortable and smooth running. At the same time, the tire’s Flat Contact Patch increases traction and ensures safe high-speed maneuvering as well as helps shorten braking distance.
Bridgestone also points to the fact that they created this tire with eco-friendliness in mind, which includes the choice of materials and “green” technologies. The tire shows low rolling resistance and optimizes your vehicles fuel consumption to reduce your expenses as well as lower CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
Bridgestone MY-02 Sporty Style is available in 18 sizes to fit wheel rims measuring 15 to 17 inches in diameter. It complies with such vehicles as Chevrolet Aveo, Cruze and Ford Fiesta.
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.
Bridgestone Dueler A/T 697 Summer Tire for Off-Roaders
Bridgestone unveils their new Dueler A/T 697 tire for the coming summer season. It comes to replace the D694 model and has already been tested to show enhanced durability, high-quality traction and predictable handling.
The tire’s predecessor is known for its excellent operational features and stylish appearance. Bridgestone has further improved its strong with the Dueler A/T 697 and added more comfort to highway and in-city driving. The new tire delivers better wear-resistance and a lower noise level.
Bridgestone Dueler A/T 697 performs equally well on various types of road surfaces including soil roads and off-road terrain. It can excellently absorb road irregularities as well as cancel noise waves.
The tire’s tread blocks were optimized with the help of computer simulation technologies while smoothly curved grooves enable efficient water removal from under the contact patch area. Shoulder blocks feature dedicated edges to minimize wear and lugs to ensure stable traction anytime.
Bridgestone Dueler A/T 697 looks cool and attractive thanks to vivid black and white lettering of its sidewalls, which adds style to your vehicle.
Bridgestone Blizzak Revo 1 Non-Studded Winter Tire
Bridgestone Revo 1 passenger tire is designed specially for most severe wintertime conditions. The tire benefits from lots of Bridgestone innovative technologies and delivers superb traction on slippery surfaces like compact snow and black ice. At the same time it shows unsurpassed acoustic comfort and reliable handling on dry and wet asphalt.
The tire comes with two tread pictures to your choice – either a directional or a symmetric one.
The tire is made from Multicell Revo1 rubber compound with a cellular structure. It is known that every time you drive over an icy surface a thin film of water emerges in the contact patch area, which leads to poorer traction. The Blizzak Revo 1 compound features numerous micro pores and micro sipes that remove this water from under the footprint to ensure excellent road-wheel contact.
This innovative rubber retains its elasticity even under sub-freezing temperatures. It features an increased number of pores as well as lots of special elements that act like studs thus providing for ultimate traction on ice and snow.
Bridgestone made use of computer modeling technologies to ensure the tire’s reliable performance on ice- and snow-covered roads. Computer simulation helps predict the tire’s operation on the road and create the right type of a tread picture to achieve the best result possible. Earlier the technology was used only for SUV tires.
Bridgestone Blizzak Revo 1 is equipped with the company’s Uni-T AQII technology to deliver an excellent blend of comfortable running, quiet operation, wear-resistance and handling. The tire surface is also cut with three-dimensional grooves that create sharp biting edges to enhance traction while preventing tread blocks from deformation.
Bridgestone Launches New Potenza RE-11S Type RH Semi-Slick Tires in Japan
On the 15th of December Bridgestone unveiled their new tire for the Japanese market. The tires called Potenza RE-11S Type RH are intended for use on a racing track and feature semi-slick tread design.
The new tire comes to replace Bridgestone RE-11S Type RS model from 2008 lineup and differs from its predecessor in the 3D Seamless Stealth innovative technology the company equips it with.
The 3D Seamless Stealth technology is used for Formula 1 tires. It presupposes a special tread picture with three-dimensional grooves arranged in such a way so as to optimize tire stiffness during cornering as well as provide for excellent lateral traction. At the same time the technology enhances grip in the wet.
Bridgestone started its Potenza tire lineup in 1979 with the Potenza RE47 model and since then the lineup has been offering renowned high-quality tires for powerful sporty passenger cars and sport utility vehicles. The Potenza tires are constantly enhanced with innovative technologies that include the ones worked out as a result of the company’s experience in auto sport.
Bridgestone Duravis M700 HD Commercial Truck Tire
Bridgestone Duravis M700 HD is a commercial tire for trucks used in construction industry, for ambulance cars and similar vehicles. It delivers reliable traction on both asphalted roads and non-asphalted surfaces and offers excellent durability, wear-resistance and reliable operation in toughest working environment.
The tire features aggressive tread pattern with Z-shaped grooves and stepping block edges to ensure a firm grip in mud and snow conditions. In addition, the tire has reinforced sidewalls protected against lateral cuts and chips while an innovative casing construction prevents from stone penetration into the tire thus keeping tire body and steel belts away from damage.
Bridgestone Duravis M700 HD is made with the addition of special components into the structure of its rubber compound to enhance casing durability, which in conjunction with closed on tire shoulders helps it easily endure long-term loads. It eliminates uneven tread wear thus prolonging the tire life span. Such rubber compound is typical of extra-durable truck tires.
The tire excellently suits light trucks with increased loading capacity. It comes with E load rating in a wide range of sizes to equip a variety of dedicated vehicles.
Bridgestone Launches the New Ecopia EP1001S Eco-Friendly Tire
Bridgestone has just unveiled two new tires, one of them featuring the lowest rolling resistance possible while the other one is an airless non-pneumatic tire.
European legislation will soon be supplied with a system of obligatory tire markings that will include the data about wet traction, noise level as well as rolling resistance. It is rolling resistance that affects CO2 emissions into the atmosphere and fuel consumption of the vehicles the tire is used with, that’s why a lot of tire-makers strive to work out the ones with maximally low rolling resistance.
There’re similar markings in the Japanese tire legislation, but it exists on a voluntary basis. As Bridgestone Japan has stated lately, they came up to the newest technologies that allow for exceptionally low rolling resistant tires. The new tire called the Ecopia EP1001S will hit the markets in July 2012.
The tire’s rubber compound is worked out under the Nano-Pro Tech technology that helps significantly enhance traction on both wet and dry roads. The technology results from Bridgestone experience in car races.
In addition, Bridgestone will show off its new concept airless tire that as well can reduce the harm inflicted on the environment. Both tires are made from recyclable materials, feature eco-friendly performance while delivering smooth ride and superb driver and passenger comfort.
Bridgestone Potenza RE760 Sport Summer Tire for Lux Sporty Vehicles
Bridgestone Potenza RE760 Sport is a summer tire from the company’s high-performance segment. It is intended for use with most expensive and prestigious passenger cars, sporty sedans and coups. This is a flagman tire for lux vehicles worked out to match their unsurpassed operational features and a high level of comfort.
The tire delivers precise steering response and excellent driver-wheel feedback and guarantees predictable handling and road-holding ability thus ensuring safe cornering performance even when driving at high speeds. It resists lateral skidding in the best way.
Bridgestone Potenza RE760 Sport features a sports-like stiff tread enhanced by C.T.D.M. and O – Bead innovative technologies. The tire compound is molded into an asymmetrical tread picture with Super Slant Grooves to cut water film and evacuate water from under the footprint area, which results in reliable wet traction with minimal hydroplaning possible.
Stiff and durable shoulders prevent from tire deformation under high speeds, which as well helps reduce the tire’s rolling resistance for you to save money on fuel and contribute to environmental protection since lower amount of CO2 is emitted into the atmosphere.
Bridgestone Potenza RE760 Sport is made with the inclusion of Long Link Carbon elements into the structure of its rubber compound, which enhances wear resistance as well as improves traction and handling.
Bridgestone Potenza Re-11 Summer Tire for Passenger Cars
Bridgestone Potenza Re-11 is a summer tire for performance passenger cars. It offers reliable handling in numerous summertime weather conditions and delivers stable wet and dry traction thanks to a number of innovative technologies the company used during its development.
The tire compound is molded into an asymmetrical tread picture with wide circumferential grooves that quickly and effectively pump water out of the contact patch area to prevent from hydroplaning and ensure your vehicle’s safe performance on a rainy day when roads are covered with thick water film.
Bridgestone Potenza Re-11 offers predictable performance when going round corners even at a high speed for its shoulders are comprised of large tread blocks that help avoid lateral skidding as well as provide for safe high-speed maneuvering.
There’re also Stealth blocks with the new D design borrowed from Formula 1 tires to help the tire delivers a firm grip on both asphalted city streets and on a racing track. As a result, you can derive maximum adrenaline from driving with this tire mounted on your passenger vehicle.
Bridgestone Blizzak LM-32, LM-80 and WS70 New Winter Tires
Bridgestone Company offers a great number of winter tires to cover all possible weather conditions. Its tires can operate on both wet and dry roads and easily manage ice, snow and slush.
This season the tire-maker adds three new models to its wintertime tire lineup. The first two ones, the Blizzak LM-32 and LM-80 are designed for changeable European winters while a third one, the WS70 is made from different rubber compounds and suits severe weather of the North.
All the three tires feature innovative tread design and rubber compound resulted from scientific research and elaborate testing that Bridgestone conducts in the north of Sweden on its testing field. Every year in the period between November and March the new tires are tested there to avoid defects and flaws.
The Blizzak LM-32 delivers safe wet and snow handling. It was initially worked to equip BMW, Mercedes and Audi cars while the LM-80 tire excellently complements CUV and SUV vehicles.
Bridgestone Blizzak WS70 ensures high-quality operation on black ice, compact and loose snow as well as on wet and dry surfaces. The tire is not studded so far, so it shows smooth and comfortable running coupled with superb acoustic comfort.