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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.
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.
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.
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.
Bridgestone Dueler A/T 697 Summer Tire for Off-Roaders
Bridgestone unveils their new Dueler A/T 697 tire for the coming summer season. It comes to replace the D694 model and has already been tested to show enhanced durability, high-quality traction and predictable handling.
The tire’s predecessor is known for its excellent operational features and stylish appearance. Bridgestone has further improved its strong with the Dueler A/T 697 and added more comfort to highway and in-city driving. The new tire delivers better wear-resistance and a lower noise level.
Bridgestone Dueler A/T 697 performs equally well on various types of road surfaces including soil roads and off-road terrain. It can excellently absorb road irregularities as well as cancel noise waves.
The tire’s tread blocks were optimized with the help of computer simulation technologies while smoothly curved grooves enable efficient water removal from under the contact patch area. Shoulder blocks feature dedicated edges to minimize wear and lugs to ensure stable traction anytime.
Bridgestone Dueler A/T 697 looks cool and attractive thanks to vivid black and white lettering of its sidewalls, which adds style to your vehicle.
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.
Continental ContiSportContact 3 SSR RunFlat Summer SUV Tire
Continental ContiSportContact 3 SSR is a summer tire for powerful passenger cars, luxurious sedans and coups as well as high-performance sport utility vehicles. The tire’s hallmarks include excellent grip, superb steering precision, and a short braking distance on dry as well as wet road surfaces.
The tire compound is molded into an asymmetrical tread picture with longitudinal ribs to improve driver-wheel feedback while wide circumferential grooves instantly evacuate water from under the footprint thus ensuring ultimate hydroplaning protection and promoting safe driving in foul weather.
Continental ContiSportContact 3 comes after the high-quality ContiSportContact 2 model and offers enhanced performance in comparison to its predecessor. It delivers a 5 per cent shorter braking distance while hydroplaning resistance was increased by 6 per cent. At the same time the tire is 5 per cent more durable and is less subject to lateral skidding.
The tire is equipped with the Self-Supporting RunFlat system that presupposes a special sidewall construction to ensure your vehcile’s extended mobility in case of complete pressure loss. So if you get a puncture you may be sure to go on driving for another 50 miles at a speed of 50 mph, which is enough to arrive at a tire fitting center where you can replace the tire.
Yokohama Geolander SUV New Tire
Together with an eco-friendly BluEarth-A tire Yokohama has unveiled a new model for sport utility vehicles. The Geolander SUV tire will appear on the market in February 2012.
The company states in its press release that the type of cars the tire is designed for becomes more and more popular nowadays. So called “off-roaders” and sport utility vehicles can manage cross-country terrain but in the essence they are intended for use on city roads and highways.
The new Yokohama Geolandar SUV tire offers car owners unsurpassed comfort in combination with fuel efficient operation and a high level of driver and passenger safety.
The tire has low rolling resistance. It was reduced by 16 per cent as compared to Geolandar H/T-S G051. At the same time, the tire braking distance was shortened by 16 per cent while noise level appeared to be 21 per cent lower than that of the tire’s predecessor.
Yokohama Geolander SUV is branded with a “BluEarth” marking on its sidewall to indicate its eco-friendliness.