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Continental ContiWinterContact TS 850 New Passenger Tire
Continental ContiWinterContact TS 850 is going to hit the markets next fall. It is a new passenger tire equipped with a lot of innovative features to deliver high-quality performance in wintertime, on ice and snow as well as on dry and wet asphalted roads.
The tire compound is molded into a directional tread picture with numerous biting edges to enhance snow and ice traction, which ensures safe driving during the tire’s entire life span. It includes reliable driver-wheel feedback, dynamic speeding up and effective braking.
At the same time, the tire’s construction was enhanced to minimize rolling resistance. Thanks to the technologies used for the renowned ContiEcoContact 5 tire, it was reduced by nearly eight or ten per cent in comparison to its closest rivals. Moreover, you needn’t compromise on wet traction with the tire!
Continental ContiWinterContact TS850 is going to equip a great number of passenger vehicles ranging from compact to medium-duty ones. At the beginning, it will be available in 27 sizes to fit 15- and 16-inch wheel rims, speed ratings being T and H.
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.
Continental ContiRT20 Performance Industrial Truck Tire
Continental ContiRT20 Performance is a durable industrial tire for heavy duty trucks. It is designed for use in tough working conditions and features increased load capacity alongside with excellent damage resistance.
The tire has already been tested and recommended by Italian CSP Prefabbricati SpA company that deals with the construction of concrete blocks, pillars, beams and panes and other building elements. Such things are exceptionally heavy, as a rule, and are transported on irregular roads with the company’s loaders.
The CSP representatives claim that the Continental ContiRT20 Performance is durable and reliable enough to cope with the company’s tasks. They offer long mileage, excellent price-quality ratio and superior traction.
The tire is designed for forklift loaders first and foremost. It features a deep tread picture to ensure firm grip on irregular roads and off the road and durable rubber compound that excellently resists abrasion and punctures. The tire is also equipped with TSR sealing ring to prevent from sudden air pressure loss.
On the inside, the Continental ContiRT20 Performance is based on a wide belt that in conjunction with a reinforced wire casing and reinforced shoulders to provide for maximum loading capacity. At the same time, the tire remains comfortable and delivers smooth running even on unstable road surfaces, which means excellent driver comfort and protects fragile cargo from damage.
Continental HSW2 Coach Winter Tire for Busses
Continental HSW2 Coach is a light truck tire designed to provide busses with reliable operation in wintertime. It is the right tire for severe winters on serpentine roads as well as suits using in the city. The tire successfully manages loose and compact snow, black ice and slush to minimize possible risks.
The tire offers reliable traction coupled with precise handling and a short braking distance on ice and snow and of, course, on dry and wet asphalted surfaces. It can be mounted on any axle of a bus and can be used for regular passenger trafficking as well as in tourism. It provides for smooth and comfortable running with minimum noise level.
Continental equips the tire with the casing seen in its truck tires. It includes a four-layer triangular belt, an “Air-Keep” system, steel cord, a guarding bead belt and an optimized profile. All these results in great driving stability, low rolling resistance and excellent retreadability.
In comparison to passenger car tires, the rubber for commercial ones includes more natural components to ensure maximum resilience in any weather. Such compound is soft and more “sticky,” which means excellent road-wheel contact in sub-freezing temperatures.
The tread is comprised of numerous 3D- sipes that features sharp edges to ensure a firm grip on slippery surfaces while four circumferential drainage grooves remove water and slush from under the footprint area. Wide shoulder ribs improve your vehicle’s cornering performance and prevent from untimely tread wear. As a result, you get ultimate safety and comfort with the Continental HSW2 Coach tire.
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.
Continental HSU2+ All-Season Truck Tire
Continental HSU2+ is a durable truck tire all-season operation. It is designed for heavy-duty trucks and can easily endure even toughest working conditions thanks to its enhanced operational features.
The tire is equipped with a wide footprint and stiff ribs in shoulder areas to reduce abrasion while tread grooves as well as their peculiar arrangement prevents from stone penetration into the tread. The rubber compound, in its turn, excellently resists cuts and punctures, which increases the tire mileage.
Continental HSU2+ has an elaborated “Stable” bead construction worked out by the company specially for off-the-road conditions. A high-tech bead ensures the tire’s high-quality operation after a long period of use, which helps the customers reduce their expenses on tires for their trucks.
The bead is also reinforced by a bead belt that is 18 per cent more durable than that of Continental previous model while the angle of steel wire arrangement helps make the casing stiffer. As a result you can safely use the tire in a front-axle position and, moreover, the tire gains excellent retreadability.
Continental HSU2+ features ultra deep tread measuring 26/32 inches in depth and 276 mm in width. The tire comes with a 315/80R22.5 size and L load rating.
Continental Makes an Eight-Million SuperElastic Tire
Continental has been producing specialized tires for 46 years already. Not long time ago, an eight-million industrial tire hit the world at the Corbach plant. It was Continental SC20 superelastic tire with the 225/75-15 sizing. It was completed in two shifts.
The Super Elastic is a cast rubber tire with exceptionally long mileage and an extra durable tread. The tire is entirely vulcanized on the inside, that’s why the process of its vulcanization takes a longer time than that of passenger tires. As a result, quite a lot of energy is needed to produce the tire, which is the key factor of its production. The tire is also reinforced by steel belts to firmly fix it in the bead.
The Continental SC 20 tire suits using in the toughest environment specialized vehicle have to work in. The tire easily resists even most unfavorable conditions for it features excellent puncture resistance thanks to reinforced shoulders. The tire’s tread is comprised of massive tread blocks.
The SC 20 tire is both safe and fuel-saving. It has a deeply-cut tread and shows great driving stability coupled with low rolling resistance. The latter provides for the vehicle’s lower fuel consumption.
Continental HSW Scandinavia 2 Truck Winter Tire
Continental updates its HSW Scandinavia 2 winter tire with five new sizes. This is a low-profile second-generation tire designed for truck vehicles with increased loading capacity. It suits severe wintertime conditions in the best way, so taking into account the latest winters in Europe the company decided to add new sizes to the model to meet consumer demand.
Scandinavia tires are used with haulers, trailers and semi-trailers. They have shown excellent performance for the last couple of years including a firm grip in cold weather on snow and ice as well as admirable fuel efficiency.
Continental HSW Scandinavia 2 is made from soft rubber to deliver maximum safety in wintertime. Their tread picture includes a thick network of sipes as well as numerous longitudinal and lateral drainage grooves to ensure excellent traction on different road surfaces under various weather conditions.
Tread ribs are designed in such a way so as to provide for a great number of biting edges to help the tire firmly hold a slippery road. There’re also wide ribs on the shoulders, which ensures stable cornering performance and helps avoid lateral skidding.
Continental HSW Scandinavia 2 features two-layer tread structure to help the tire adapt to different weather conditions. There’re lots of biting edges for wintertime traction, while later on, as the tire wears, the tread picture alters to increase a contact patch area, which in the end enhances wear resistance and helps reduce your vehicle’s fuel consumption in thaw conditions.
The new sizes for the tire are as follows: the 315/70 R 22.5 XL, XL and 315/60 R 22.5 355/50 R 22.5 XL for a steering axle and two XL load rated 295/60 R 22.5 and 315/60 R 22 for a front axle.
Continental ContiChampionContact Exclusive Sporty Tire
Continental ContiChampionContact is a summer tire for sporty passenger vehicles. It was designed before the World Football Cup 2006 when the company was its main sponsor. The tire was part of Continental marketing strategy during the event.
When it comes to the tire’s features it’s worth mentioning that it is created on the base of the well-known ContiSportContact2 model that without any doubt brought the company’s great success. It is intended for use with powerful vehicles and stands out of the crowd of standard tires.
The ContiChampionContact delivers excellent driving stability and superb high-speed handling. It also shows a short braking distance, which results in your safety during high-speed maneuvering and in emergency situations.
The tire compound is molded into a directional tread pattern with an asymmetric arrangement of its key elements. Numerous lateral grooves remove water masses out of the footprint area, which enhances hydroplaning resistance thus providing for safe handling on wet road surfaces.
The Continental ContiChampionContact tire was tested by a number of famous automotive magazines including the “Auto,” the “Motor and Sport” and the “ADAC Motorwelt” and was repeatedly given a “highly recommended” status.
The tire comes in eight different sizes to match the rims measuring 16, 17 and 18 inches in size.
Continental ContiTrac SUV All-Season Tire
Continental ContiTrac SUV is an all-season tire for American and Japanese sport utility vehicles. It is designed for use with medium- and heavy-duty 4WD jeeps and delivers excellent traction on asphalted highways as well as off the road.
The tire features a computer-designed tread picture optimized towards highway use. That is why the tire shows smooth and quiet operation more typical of road tires. At the same time, the contact patch is larger than that of standard road tires, which enhances grip on smooth surfaces.
The tire’s tread pattern features four deep circumferential grooves in the central tread area to evacuate water from under the footprint. Hence, the Contitrac SUV offers excellent hydroplaning protection and reliable performance on roads covered with water film as well as on slush and in light snow.
With this tire Continental achieved predictable handling, excellent durability and exceptionally long mileage. Moreover, the tire’s sidewalls are reinforced to minimize lateral damage when driving either in the city, or on a highway or off the road.
The ContiTrac SUV tire as well as Continental previous model, the Contitract AT, is branded with an “M+S” marking. Still, the earlier tire is more suitable for use in Mud and Snow than the ContiTrac SUV.
The tire is available in numerous sizes to fit wheel rims ranging from 15 to 17 inches. It comes with OWL lettering (Oval White Lettering) on its sidewalls to create an attractive and stylish looks.