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Michelin Launches XZY3 Pre-Mold Retreat Belt
This spring Michelin hits the markets with quite an innovative product, the XZY3 Pre-Mold Retreat belt for truck tires. It suits for all-position tire and can be a great bargain for multifunctional car parks.
The XZY3 Pre-Mold Retreat belt features increased life span and steel-like durability. It reliably operates on various roads including mud, gravel and sand thanks to its excellent resistance to cuts and chippings, which as well prolongs tire casing life span.
The pre-mold retreat belt features extra-deep aggressive tread picture with four ribs to enhance traction on unstable surfaces while dedicated stone ejectors in central grooves prevents from carcass damage.
Ted Becker, Marketing Vice-President of Michelin Americas Truck Tires, says that not any retreaded tire can manage changing road surfaces, but this one is really able to solve this problem.
Michelin XZY3 Pre-Mold Retreat belt is compounded from durable rubber. It comes in eight sizes, namely 210, 220, 230, 240, 250, 270, 280 and 290/345. The latter features the peculiar tread pattern to ensure additional shoulder grip for better traction on irregular soil roads and off the road.
Pirelli P2500 Euro All-Season Passenger Tire
Pirelli P2500 Euro is an excellent passenger tire with all-season operation. It offers reliable operation all the year round coupled with eco-friendly performance. The tire complies with strict European legislation to deliver a low level of noise, efficient fuel consumption and a long mileage, which altogether means reduced environmental pollution.
Technically, the tire ensures your independence from weather conditions. Its tread is suitable for driving over dry and wet pavements as well as over paddles, on muddy terrain and on snow.
The tire compound is molded into a directional tread picture to provide for outstanding hydroplaning resistance with the help of numerous lateral grooves that enable constant water and slush drainage from under the footprint area.
There you can also see a thick network of sipes in the central tread area, which in conjunction with special “winter” rubber compound ensures efficient traction on slippery surfaces like ice and snow as well as helps the tire easily resist sub-freezing temperatures. The sipes are equipped with sharp biting edges to provide for standing road-wheel contact. As a result, the Pirelli P2500 Euro was given an M+S marking to show its ability to successfully operate in mud and snow conditions.
The tread pattern helps the tire look modern and stylish, which makes it ideal footwear for compact and medium-duty passenger vehicles.
Hankook DH05 Radial Truck Tire
Hankook DH05 is a radial truck tire for mounting on a rear axle on your vehicle. It can be used all the year round thanks to its all-season tread picture. The tire is designed for regional and local cargo trafficking.
Hankook DH05 delivers reliable traction on asphalted highways where it can easily endure long-haul operations while at the same time it provides for a firm grip on local soil roads, in case you have to go for them instead of smooth asphalt.
The tire can adapt to various road surfaces and weather conditions. The tread is extra deep, which in conjunction with peculiarly-shaped blocks guarantees best performance level possible regardless of outboard conditions.
Hankook DH05 is equipped with powerful shoulder lugs to enhance traction and help tread elements clean themselves from mud and stones. Tread blocks are interconnected with the help of rubber bridges, which ensures even tread wear as well as reduce rolling resistance. The latter means your vehicle’s fuel-efficient operation and a lower level of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
The tire handles mid-distance driving well and won’t let you down in foul weather, showing excellent performance in the wet, on ice and snow.
Hankook Vantra LT RA18 Light Truck Commercial Tire
The new Nankook Vantra LT Ra 18 all-season light truck tire has been lately launched to equip vehicles for local cargo and passenger trafficking. It delivers exceptional durability, long life span and fuel efficiency as well as enhances safety, shortens braking distance and traction in the wet.
The innovative tire design includes sidewall protection from curb damage, optimized groove arrangement and a Durable Contact Patch, which ensures safe high-speed driving as well as minimizes tread wear and improve fuel efficiency by 13 per cent as compared to the previous model. Stiff blocks and a central rib help reduce noise level.
Hankook Vantra LT RA18 comes with a square contact patch. It features three wide circumferential grooves and a number of three-dimensional sipes to evacuate water from under the tire footprint thus preventing from hydroplaning and ensure predictable wet handling even in cold weather. The sipes also create sharp edges that allow for excellent grip on ice and snow.
On the inside, the tire is housed into twin steel belts, which increases durability by 12 per cent and lowers rolling resistance to guarantee superb fuel-efficiency, which is especially vital for commercial vehicles. Furthermore, the sidewalls are protected from damage in case of accidental curb hitting that happens rather frequently during in-city driving.
Yokohama 709ZL Front Axle Light Truck Tire
Yokohama has recently launched its new truck tire for a front axle of your vehicles. The tire was unveiled at Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) and features the unique tread picture, which is coupled enhanced rubber compound and fuel-efficient performance.
The new tire is equipped with continuous shoulder ribs, curved grooves and Z-shaped sipes to add extra stiffness to the tire’s tread. It is done for better wet traction as well as for lower rolling resistance, the latter being vital for your vehicle’s lower fuel consumption, which can save you expenses on fuel as well as reduce harmful emissions into the atmosphere.
Yokohama 709ZL was worked out with the help of the company’s Zenvironment technology that combines latest achievements in the sphere of casing design, the tire compounding and patterning.
Rick Phillips, Head of Yokohama marketing Department, says that it is the combination of innovative rubber compound and original tread picture that makes the tire different from any other one. He also points to the fact that Yokohama engineers manage to create one of the best fuel-efficient light truck tires.
Yokohama 709ZL will be available in the end of 2012 in 295/75R22.5 and 11R22.5 sizes.
BFGoodrich g-Force Sport COMP-2 UHP Sporty Tire
BFGoodrich g-Force Sport COMP-2 is an ultra-high performance tire for sporty vehicles. It was announced this January and hit the markets at the beginning of April to replace its predecessor, the BFGoodrich g-Force Sport. With the new model, the company enhances the older one and gets rid of its drawbacks.
The new technologies made it possible to increase dry traction by 8 per cent while wet traction was improved by as much as 30 per cent.
The tread picture includes a solid central rib for better course-keeping ability and its open-slotted shoulders ensure excellent grip during cornering in wet weather. Curved tread grooves remove water from under the tire’s footprint while creating numerous biting edges to provide for ultimate traction regardless road state and driving situation.
BFGoodrich g-Force Sport COMP-2 has a racing –inspired design, which is seen as well in its internal construction with nylon layers and in its sidewalls, the later featuring dedicated inserts to increase lateral stiffness by 40 per cent thus ensuring safe and predictable cornering.
The tire is available in 46 sizes to equip wheel with 15 to 20 in rim diameter. New 12 sizes are scheduled to be launched in September. It is a great choice for those who own such vehicles as Dodge Challengers, Chevy Camaros, Volkswagen Golf GTIs and Subaru Impreza STIs.
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.
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.
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.
Yokohama Geolander G055 New Summer Tire for Sport Utility Vehicles
Yokohama has lately launched the new Geolander G055 summer tire for crossovers, entry-level and medium-duty sport utility vehicles that gain more and more popularity all over the world. It offers eco-friendly performance alongside with excellent traction on both wet and dry roads.
The tire benefit from the company’s BluEarth innovative technology that presupposes the use of the Nano BLEND compound with orange peel oil, which coupled with the tire’s lightweight construction, ensures unsurpassed aerodynamics and low rolling resistance.
The rolling resistance was lowered to result into your vehicle’s fuel efficiency and a lower level of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. There’s a BluEarth sign on the tire’s sidewall to indicate its “attitude” to the environment.
Yokohama Geolandar SUV G055 shows reliable wet operation and a low level of noise. It is available worldwide in 27 sizes ranging from 205/70R15 96Н and 245/50R20 102V.
The Geolander lineup has been approved by drivers for their high-quality performance. There exist the Geolandar H/TS and A/TS for powerful SUVs, and the Geolandar M/T+, I/T+ and I/TS for wintertime driving.