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Kumho City Venture Comfort KL33 Comfortable SUV Tire
Kumho has recently launches a new tire for comfortable sport utility vehicles designed for use on city roads and asphalted highways first and foremost. The company hopes the tire will be competitive and will take a certain niche on the market thanks to its undeniable advantages.
The tire is claimed to absorb road irregularities to deliver enhanced driver and passenger comfort. It is ensures by an optimized arrangement of so-called composite tread blocks, which at the same time helps reduce noise the tire generates on the road.
Kumho uses silica to make the tire to enhance braking as well as to add to its durability. Furthermore, the new internal construction with reinforced steel belts and two layers of cord, which results into an exceptionally long life span.
Kumho City Venture Comfort KL33 features three-dimensional sipes that increase wet traction while four wide circumferential grooves that instantly evacuate water from under the contact patch area to grant the tire excellent hydroplaning resistance.
The tire comes in six sizes to equip 16- to 18-inch wheel rims and suits using with such modern crossovers as Kia Sportage, Sorento и Mojave, Hyundai Tucson и Santa Fe, Ssangyong Rexton, Actyon и Kyron, Mercedes GLK, Chrysler Grand Voyager, Lincoln MKX, Jeep Grand Cherokee and Land Rover Discovery.
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.
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.
Kumho Solus KH25 Summer Tire for Sporty Coups and Sedans
Kumho KH25 is a summer tire worked out by the company to match the need of powerful passenger sedans and high-performance sporty coups. It offers an excellent balance of dry and wet traction to deliver reliable handling in most difficult situations while it smooth running ensures superb driver and passenger comfort.
The tire compound is molded into non-directional tread picture with four wide circumferential grooves that quickly and efficiently remove water from under the footprint area. A great number of lateral grooves ensure complete water removal from under the contact patch, which helps minimize hydroplaning on wet roads on a rainy day.
Shoulder blocks are arranged according to variable pitch pattern, which not only enhances cornering grip but also provides for significant noise reduction. The tire’s central tread is designed in such a way so as to ensure excellent course-keeping ability and great high-speed stability.
Kumho made the Solus KH25 from silica-based rubber compound to guarantee reliable traction on wet road surfaces without compromising on dry traction.
The tire’s durable inner construction is comprised of twin steel belts reinforced to nylon layers to prevent from tire deformation under high speeds. The tire’s overall design and its wide footprint help evenly distribute load over its surface, which results in exceptional ride smoothness.
Kumho Ecsta SPT KU31 Colored Smoke Racing Tire
Kumho Ecsta SPT KU31 Colored Smoke is a specially designed racing tire for drifting and dragging competitions. The original model was unveiled in 2005 while now the tire is updated with a “colored smoke” version that adds a flow of beauty to racing track experience.
The tire produces smoke of a definite color to your choice, which is achieved thanks to a special dye element in the structure of its rubber compound. As you drive over a hot racing track at a high speed the colored smoke is emitted into the atmosphere to make races more spectacular.
The tire’s directional tread picture ensures efficient water drainage from under the contact patch area and, hence, excellent hydroplaning resistance, which results in reliable high-speed handling even on wet road surfaces. Stiff ribs on shoulders as well as three circumferential ribs in the central tread area provide for superb driver-wheel feedback. In the end you get safe high-speed maneuvering as well as dynamic speeding up and braking performance.
The color of the smoke is indicated on the tire’s sidewalls with the help of a dedicated marking. The smoke is red for all the tires sizes from 15 to 18 while 255/40R17 tires can as well be yellow or blue.
Unfortunately, this bright Kumho tire is not intended for use on standard roads as the smoke leaves sticky marks on your vehicle’s body, on the wheels and so on.
The dyer fades away as the tire wears; the process goes faster in the wet. At the same time, it tends to gradually disappear in case you keep the tire stored for a long time.
Kumho Ecsta 4X KU22 UHP All-Season Tire for Passenger Cars
This fall Kumho North America launches the new ultra-high performance tire for passenger cars, the Kumho Ecsta 4X KU22. The tire is promised to combine optimal wet and dry traction with reliable performance in light snow conditions.
The tire is designed to satisfy the demands for UHP tires in the area as well as will be available worldwide on OEM and replacement tire markets. It will come in different sizes to fit wheel rims measuring from 15 to 20 inches in diameter. At the same time, the company is going to launch some additional models within a 19-inch size to meet recent customer interests.
Kumho grants the new Ecsta 4X KU22 tire 40,000-mile warranty on tread wear. So if a serious damage happens to the tire when it’s worn no more than by 2/32 inches in depth, the company will replace the tire free of charge.
The new tire marks the start of Kumho “Let’s Go” marketing campaign aimed at all-season tire promotion. The advertisements will depict active and energetic people living their lives according to their wishes and desires against picturesque sceneries like mountains or beaches. The mottos are as follows: “4Get the 4Cast” and “Let’s Go”
Kumho KH 18 All-Season Tire for Passenger Cars
Kumho KH18 is an all-season passenger tire with a symmetric tread picture. It delivers excellent handling, great traction on wet roads and a high level of driver and passenger comfort.
Kumho Company is regarded for its high-quality tires; the same is true for its new KH18 tire. Being affordable it nevertheless features everything you need on the road, either on a hot sunny day or in the rain. For instance, the tire shows stable dry traction that is maintained by a great number of biting edges that help the tire hold the road and enhance its speeding up and braking performance.
Wet traction is also okay thanks to think siping in the contact patch area. Still, the tire’s non-directional tread design cannot provide for ultimate hydroplaning resistance as the grooves sometimes fail to evacuate all the water out of the footprint as quickly as you would like it to. However, the tire is safe to use in the wet, but you’d better not enter paddles at a high speed.
Kumho KH 18 features a densely cut tread which is good for driving on slippery surfaces, but its rather stiff rubber doesn’t comply with the requirements set for winter tires, so you need to fit your car with winter tires when the season comes.
The tire wear resistance is good as well if it is used in a proper way. Bear in mind that it’s an affordable tire. The wear indicator equals to 440 units. In general, it’s a good quality tire. It doesn’t have any particular specialization but excellently suits quiet daily rides and has an excellent price / quality ratio.
Kumho Ecsta LE Sports KU39 Summer Tire for Passenger Cars
Kumho Ecsta LE Sports KU39 is a summer tire for passenger cars, sporty coups and powerful sedans. The tire offers stable handling on high speeds, reliable braking on wet and dry roads and low-noise operation.
The tire is created specially for high-speed driving. It comes in 40 sizes with Y speed rating only, which means that it can be used at speeds up to 186 mph. At the same time, the tire ensures the highest level of safety possible and excellently holds the road, so you can easily maneuver at any speed.
The tire delivers superb traction in the dry as well as in the wet, so you needn’t slow down if caught in the rain, all you have to do is to be more careful on the road. At the same time the tire remains almost silent and provides for quite running. A rim flange, in its turn, helps protect wheel disks from damage in case you meet a pit.
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Still, the Ecsta LE Sports KU39 is not that durable, though it is done for the sake of traction and safety. So if you take into account high speed rating and stiff sidewalls the tire provides for precise steering; nevertheless it can be too stiff for everyday use.
The tire compound is molded into an asymmetrical tread picture, which in conjunction with silica elements in the compound structure enhances wet traction. There are three wide grooves and a smaller one to evacuate water from under the footprint and to prevent from hydroplaning.
In the central tread there’s a continuous rib that helps maintain constant road-wheel contact. It is responsible for your vehicle’s road holding ability and steering precision. Outer shoulders work as you speed up and slow down to prevent your car from lateral skidding.
Kumho Ecsta LE Sports KU39 is a high-quality tire with excellent operational features and offers great price / quality ration, so it can be the leader among sports tires.
Kumho Ecsta X3 KL17 Summer Tire for Off-Road Passenger Vehicles
Kumho Ecsta X3 KL17 is a summer tire for off-road passenger vehicles. The tire shows good acoustic comfort, excellent traction on unstable road surfaces while its asymmetric tread picture provides for enhanced wet performance.
The tire comes in limited choice of sizes with only 13 of them. All the sizes are designed for off-road vehicles, jeeps and crossovers and suits drivers who often have to leave asphalted roads for cross-country terrain.
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High speed ratings and tread picture create a sporty look of this tire while it’s difficult to put it into this category. It is a typically rain tire and shows its best on wet roads. It excellently holds the road and resists hydroplaning during straight-line driving while on corners its performance is slightly worse.
The Kumho Ecsta X3 KL17 summer tire features asymmetrical tread pattern with four wide grooves that pump out water out of the tread area. The ribs are cut with tiny grooves while a central rib remains continuous. The latter is designed for permanent road-wheel contact.
While the tire’s wet handling and braking deserves highest awards, its dry operation is similar to the majority of high-performance medium-class road tires. If you wish to keep off asphalted roads the tire would also make you glad by its performance yet it is not an off-road tire in its essence and you have to bear it in mind.
Kumho Radial 857 All-Season Commercial Tire
Kumho Radial 857 is an all-season tire for commercial use. It is designed for a wide range of minivans and light trucks and maintains local and regional cargo trafficking. It shows excellent handling and high tread wear resistance as well as provides for low rolling resistance.
The tire is marked as “M+S” and “A/T” which stands for “Mud and Slush” and “All Terrain” respectively but in fact it suits mild climate most and delivers good performance on highways and in slightly off-the-road conditions. You’d better not use it in deep snow or on plowed fields.
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The tire is made from the innovative rubber compound molded into a deep tread picture with arrhythmic block arrangement for predictable handling and a comfortable driving as such tread patterning helps achieve a lower level of road noise. Furthermore, the tread design ensures precise steering response regardless of road surface.
Kumho used the innovative technologies of rubber compounding during this tire production. This results is the tire’s low rolling resistance and minimal road noise. At the same time the traction on dry and wet roads was significantly improved. Moreover, it is low rolling resistance that allows achieving fuel efficiency and provides for excellent wear resistance, which is the key factor in reducing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.