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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.
GT Radial Launches the new Savero Komodo MT Off-Road Tire in Indonesia
GT Radial Savero Komodo MT is an all-season off-the-road tire designed for use on muddy terrain and on various kinds of unstable road surfaces. It features a dedicated scale design on the sidewalls to deliver excellent performance off the road.
Arijanto Notorahardjo, GT Gajah Tunggal marketing manager, said that more than 120 tire distributors in Indonesia visited the event where the new tire was tested by Mercedes-Benz G Class Driving Experience participants.
Mr Arijanto also added that since GT radial tires are exported into more than 90 countries all over the world, the company invited tire distributors from several countries to show them a new model from the GT Radial Savero lineup. The lineup has already gained a high reputation among off-road fans while the new tire was also put to test-drives and off-road competitions for people to admire its high-quality performance.
Although it was hot on the day of the event, the guests didn’t refuse having a ride on an off-roader equipped with the new GT Radial Savero Komodo MT tire. Different types of road surfaces were included into the test drive, both asphalted roads and rocky terrain and so on. The stunt men, in their turn, created the real show by making their cars climb over cobble stones and even fallen trees.
General Tire Launches New GTL919 Radial Tire for Trailers
General Tire has recently unveiled their new tire for trailers. The tire called GTL919 features radial construction and is designed for long haul operations on asphalted highways. It comes with the 385/65 R22.5 sizing.
The tire is remarkable by its reinforced sidewalls optimized towards better traction. The manufacturer claims that their design also helps the tire retain all its operational features during the entire term of its use without significant quality degradation.
The GTL919 tread surface is cut with extra deep circumferential grooves that are responsible for effective water evacuation from under the contact patch area while dedicated stone ejectors prevent from stone retention in the tire tread. The latter helps avoid cuts and chipping as well as minimizes casing damage.
The sidewalls are reinforced with a thick rubber layer, which makes the tire successfully resist lateral hits, which prolongs its life span and safeguards your rides. GT Radial also states that the GTL919 can endure heavy-duty long haul operations with minimum effort as well as can be retreaded when considerably worn.
The tire also shows low rolling resistance to minimize fuel consumption of your trailer. As a result, you save your money on fuel as well as contribute to environmental protection as in this case lower amount of CO2 is emitted into the atmosphere.
General Grabber HTS All-Season SUV Tire
General Grabber is an off-road tire launched by the Continental company for off-road competitions as well as for everyday use on city streets, the latter being implemented with its Grabber HTS variant. The tire features all-season operation.
Racing Grabber tire is available with a 37×12.50R17 sizing and is used during various kinds of sports competitions such as Baja 500 and SCORE series. It features a durable and stiff three-layer construction that can easily resist the toughest off-the-road conditions. Furthermore, it’s made of Duragen rubber compound with the help of newest racing tire technologies.
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The tire features a “Strake & Сhamfer” tread picture to enhance traction in any situation while curved circumferential grooves helps maintain constant road-wheel contact and ensures reliable performance regardless of road surface. At the same time, the tire remains quiet on asphalt roads, which adds to driver and passenger comfort.
On the inside the Grabber tire has steel belts for additional durability and is housed into a three-layer cord body.
General Grabber line-up includes now AT2, UHP and HTS tires. They are designed to fit different rim diameters from 15 to 20 inches and can be mounted on numerous pick-ups, light trucks and sport utility vehicles.
General Tire XP 2000 Winter Tire for 4WD Vehicles
General Tire XP 2000 Winter is a winter tire designed for use with four-wheel drive and sport utility vehicles. It is made to ensure stable driving in wintertime thanks to a special tread picture, peculiar siping and innovative rubber compound it is made of.
The tire was tested in severe wintertime conditions and showed excellent performance under sub-freezing temperatures and excellent handling on snowy, ice and wet surfaces. It was achieved without compromising on dry traction, which is reliable as well.
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The tire compound is molded into asymmetrical tread pattern with lots of sipes covering tread surface. It provides for numerous biting edges that cut into ice and snow thus providing for reliable grip on wintertime roads, which ensures your safety even when driving at high speeds.
There’re three circumferential grooves that cut water film and help evacuate water and slush from under the contact patch area, which protects your vehicle from hydroplaning during thaw periods.
The directional part of the tread ensures stable driving while a system of lateral grooves guarantees stable handling on snow-covered roads. Shoulder blocks, in their turn, help maintain cornering stability and enhance braking performance.
General Tire Altimax HP Summer Tire for Passenger Cars
General Tire Altimax HP is a summer tire for sporty passenger sedans. It offers a blend of innovative technologies of tire production to deliver maximum traction and safety as well as a high level of comfort in any situation.
The tire compound is molded into directional tread picture with numerous lateral grooves that quickly and effectively evacuate water from under the contact patch area thus preventing from hydroplaning and enhancing wet traction and handling under foul weather conditions.
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The tire is made from silica-based rubber compound and features a two-layer construction to achieve smooth and comfortable running. It benefits from such modern technologies as Visual Alignment Indicators, Acoustic Modulation Sound Technology, Reactive Contour Technology, Replacement Tire Monitor Technology and Replacement Tire Monitor.
The Visual Alignment Indicators helps detect misbalanced wheels in time, which ensures the tire’s longer life span while the Acoustic Modulation Sound Technology helps reduce noise the tire generates on the road by absorbing sound waves resulting from driving.
The Reactive Contour Technology presupposes the use of a specially created reactive tire profile to make the tire adapt to different types of road surfaces, which results in steering precision as well as provides for driver comfort.
There’s also a useful Replacement Tire Monitor created for customer convenience. There’s a special punch on a central rib that displays a “Replace the tire” inscription as the tire becomes worn and unserviceable.
General Tire Altimax Arctic Winter Tire
General Tire Altimax Arctic is a non-studded winter tire that can be fitted with studs as well. It delivers excellent traction and great handling on various types of surfaces.
The tire comes in succession to the legendary Gislaved Nord Frost 3 tire that was launched by the company’s Continental AG brand. It was a great tire for it has always been in top three in tests of every sort and kind. It is no longer produced, but experienced driver still search for it in shops.
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This is the reason why the new tire borrows the well-praised directional tread pattern from its predecessor almost unchanged.
The tire’s center rib is called the “Center Stability rib” as it significantly enhances your car’s course-keeping ability. The tread features a system of circumferential grooves that remove water and slush from under the contact patch area in a wink of an eye.
The unique sipe configuration ensures precise steering on snow and in the wet. The sipes are arranged according to the “Multi-Angle Sipe System 270 degrees,” which means that maximum angle of divergence between differently directed sipes makes 270 degrees. It provides for lots of additional biting edges when driving in any direction.
The shape of a contact patch is regulated by the “Reactive Contour (RCT)” technology that makes it adjust to road conditions and deliver optimum grip over the entire life span.
The two-layer tread is made from silica-based rubber compound according to the “All-Weather Dual Tread Compound” technology. That’s why General Tire Altimax Arctic model remains resilient under low temperatures and delivers excellent wet traction.
General Tire Snow Grabber Winter Tire For Off-Roaders
General Tire Snow Grabber is comfortable and safe winter tire for off-road vehicles. It is designed to deliver maximum safety and minimum braking distance in most unfavorable conditions like an ice-coated road, sleet or thick water film. The tire allows driving at a speed up to 130mph.
To ensure such great performance the tire features asymmetrical tread picture where each part performs its own task. It has so-called “snow traps” that successfully clear the contact patch from water and slush while powerful shoulder blocks help you retain control over your car even in extreme situations. The asymmetrical tread pattern contributes to comfortable ride as it helps reduce noise the tire generates on the road.
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Shoulder blocks feature lateral grooves and large blocks for reliable braking on different road surfaces. There’re also twin-blocks with a number of biting edges. Central tread, in its turn, ensures traction on a snowy road. There’re snow pockets in it that grab snow and provide for traction on a winter road. Furthermore, medium-sized blocks of a peculiar shape cut water film while drainage grooves and numerous sipes remove water, mud and slush from under the contact patch area.
The General Tire Snow Grabber tire’s silica rubber compound was worked specially for wintertime conditions, which allows using it in low temperatures.