Archive for the ‘Passenger’ Category
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.
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.
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.
Bridgestone Turanza ER370 Comfortable Summer Tire for Passenger Cars
Bridgestone Turanza ER370 is a passenger summer tire with enhanced comfort. It delivers powerful handling and a firm grip on both wet and dry surfaces coupled with superb course-keeping ability.
The tire offers balanced operation and has an optimal blend of features to ensure efficient wet operation and predictable maneuvering. Its tread is divided into two zones, an outer and inner one, by a central rib that provides for straight-line stability and precise driver-wheel feedback.
Both tread zones are responsible for their own tasks, depending on weather conditions. The inner tread features lateral grooves that pump water out of the footprint area and prevent from lateral skidding on slippery surfaces. At the same time, outer tread elements enhance dry handling.
All in all, the Bridgestone Turanza ER370 tread is cut with multiple drainage channels and directional grooves while its symmetrically-designed with sharp biting edges improve your safety in the dry as well as in the wet. Everything is coupled with smooth and quiet operation and great passenger and driver comfort.
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 Sport Maxx RT High Performance Summer Tire
Dunlop Sport Maxx RT is a new summer tire with ultra-high performance. The tire is designed for daily use with sporty passenger cars and equips them with racing-like handling and an excellent balance between sporty operation and practical purpose.
During the tire development Dunlop aimed at high-quality traction so it used racing compound for it. There’re special polymers in the structure of its compound to help the tire adapt to various road irregularities and deliver a firm grip regardless of road conditions.
Dunlop Sport Maxx RT compound is molded into an asymmetrical tread picture with large shoulder blocks and peculiarly shaped ribs to ensure enhanced stiffness during lateral loads, which improves cornering grip.
The tire features plain sidewalls with aerodynamic design and “engraved” lettering to reduce aerodynamic resistance. At the same time, the tire has a lightweight construction, which lowers rolling resistance and optimizes your vehicle’s fuel consumption as well as minimizes heat buildup.
Dunlop Sport Maxx RT has undergone a series of TÜV SÜD independent tests that showed a 7 per cent shorter braking distance than that of its closest rivals. Its rolling resistance, in its turn, is 11 per cent lower.
The tire will be available with 16-, 17- and 18-inch rim diameters. Its target group is luxurious sport cars from Audi, Maserati, BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes AMG, etc.
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.
The New Michelin Energy E-V Equips the new Renault Zoe
The new Zoe passenger vehicle from Renault comes with the Michelin Energy E-V tire that was worked out in frames of a four-year collaboration of an automotive manufacturer and tire-maker. The tire is designed specially for electric vehicles and benefits from a long-term research and features a number of innovative technologies to deliver exceptionally efficient performance.
All Renault ZOE model with 15- and 16-inch wheel disks will be equipped with Michelin Energy E-V tire that fits into Renault Range OptimiZEr strategy that is aimed at lower energy consumption. The tire, for instance, can help you save up to 6 per cent fuel on an asphalted highway (depending on your driving style.)
The main task Michelin dealt with while developing this tire was to reduce its rolling resistance and hence reduce the vehicle’s energy consumption. At the same time, the Energy E-V remains safe and reliable and performs well on wet surfaces while delivering a long life span.
Michelin used its twenty-year experience in fuel-saving technologies for its new Energy E-V tire. The result is clean and eco-friendly operation of electric vehicles, which is the exact thing Renault Zoe vehicles offer.
Tires play a key role in your vehicle’s fuel consumption for it takes 30 per cent of energy consumed by the engine. It deforms and gets hot, which leads to energy loss, so if you reduce heat buildup energy consumption will lower as well.
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.
Yokohama AVID ENVigor ZPS High-Performance Passenger Tire
Yokohama has lately launched the new premium-class tire for passenger cars. It’s the first tire from High-Performance segment to combine excellent all-season grip, superb acoustic comfort, reliable handling, eco-friendliness and a long life span.
The letter ZPS in the tire’s title translate as “Zero Pressure System.” This is the popular Run-Flat technology that helps you stay on the safe side I case of a picture and allow you go on driving for 50 miles at a speed of 50 mph.
The tire features unique sidewall shape to keep them stiff in case of pressure loss while special rubber compound minimizes heat let out, which also prevents from sidewall deformation. The AVID ENVigor ZPS is also equipped with the ZPS Bead wire to prevent the tire from demounting.
The tire’s rubber compound is enhanced by silica elements to reduce rolling resistance and lower your vehicle’s fuel consumption as well as improve wet performance and prolong mileage. Furthermore, tread blocks are arranged in such a way so as to minimize noise level.
There you can also see monoblock tread areas, slant grooves and weather-adaptive sipes, which results in truly all-season operation.
Yokohama AVID ENVigor ZPS appeared on the markets on the February 1st in five sizes. It matches such passenger vehicles as BMW 3- and 5-series, Lexus GS and SC, MINI Cooper, etc.