Archive for the ‘Winter tires’ Category
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.
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 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.
Michelin Launches the X-Ice Xi3 Passenger Winter Tire
Michelin has recently unveiled their new tire for wintertime roads, the X-Ice Xi3. On a track in Mecaglisse in Quebec it has demonstrated its excellent performance that was significantly enhanced as compared to its predecessor.
The new model is created with the help of four key technologies, namely, the Cross Z siping for better handling, the Block Edge biting edges for snow and ice traction, Micro-Pump grooves to absorb moisture in the footprint area and FleX-Ice rubber compound to reduce braking distance, which altogether makes the real revolution in winter tire segment.
There’re also drop-shaped vertical sipes that enhance acceleration and braking performance while the MaxTouch Construction optimizes contact patch shape, which evenly distributes load over it during speeding up and cornering. The latter results in longer mileage.
The tire compound is molded into directional tread picture that includes curved lateral grooves for qick and efficient water and slush drainage from under the footprint. There’re also Z-shaped blocks in the outer tread area that improve longitudinal and lateral traction. Shoulder block design, in turn, increases traction and handling in deep snow.
Michelin grant the X-Ice Xi3 60,000-mile warranty on treadwear. The tire is also branded with the Green X marking on its sidewalls, which means its fuel-efficiency and eco-friendly character.
Michelin X-Ice Xi3 is scheduled to hit the markets in fall 2012. It will be available with 14 to 18 rim diameter and equip 90 per cent of passenger car and minivans sold in the US and Canada.
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.
Fulda Kristall Control HP Passenger Winter Tire
Fulda Kristall Control HP is a high-quality non-studded winter tire for a wide range of medium-duty and powerful passenger cars. The tire belongs to the company’s High Performance lineup and benefits from a number of its innovative technologies to deliver reliable performance and comfortable handling.
The tire is designed for most severe wintertime conditions. Its compound is molded into directional tread pattern with a solid central rib and wide shoulder areas. The tread picture includes extra deep grooves with excellent self-cleaning ability to ensure reliable traction on snow-covered roads. The tire is also protected from skidding on slippery surfaces thanks to numerous sipes with sharp biting edges.
Fulda Kristall Control HP is equipped with the company’s Snow Catcher technology that helps the grooves contract to catch snow in the footprint area, which enhances traction on both loose and compact snow hence improving the tire’s performance in wintertime.
The tire was compounded with the help of silica and functional polymers that were included into the structure of its rubber compound to ensure the tire’s softness under sub-freezing temperature as well as provides for its resilience for optimal traction on ice and in the wet.
Fulda Kristall Control HP features a durable casing, which helps it endure significant loads without any deformation as well as safeguards the tire from mechanical damage. The tire is available with H and V speed rating.
Fulda Kristall Montero 3 Passenger Winter Tire
Fulda Kristall Montero 3 is a non-studded wither tire for passenger cars. The tire is the third model from the line up and features an optimized tread picture, a reinforced casing and revised rubber compound. It combines the best technologies of its predecessors and is designed to outperform them in a number of respects.
The tire’s tread picture is created with the help of the Snow Catcher technology, which presupposes numerous sipes that grip snow and enhance traction and handling on snow-covered roads. There you can see a central rib to improve course-keeping ability while the number of drainage grooves was increased to ensure better hydroplaning resistance. The grooves excellently cut water film and evacuate water and slush from under the footprint area.
The new Bubble-Blade rubber compound was worked out specially for sub-freezing temperatures and makes tread blocks stiff enough for driving on both dry and wet road surfaces as well as for compact and loose snow.
Fulda Kristall Montero 3 features a reinforced casing that significantly enhances the tire durability as well as prolongs the tire’s life span.
The tire was testes by the ADAC auto club and got a “Highly Recommended” mark thanks to its balanced features, great fuel-efficiency and totally predictable performance on various types of wintertime road surfaces.
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.