Tires
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Goodyear's new Eagle 360 tire concept envisions a future that moves away from round, donut-shaped tires, and into materials and designs that could allow the car of tomorrow to levitate and easily move in tight spaces. The Star Wars-esque Eagle 360 isn't a brainchild of Hollywood's best animators. Instead, it's an idea that would allow for the tire to literally move in any direction. Goodyear says that one of the future tire's biggest advantages is that it would eliminate the need for the vehicle's drivetrain actually being connected to the wheel. The tires are "connected" to the vehicle by...
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Hankook Airless Tires Inch Closer To Production Reality
A number of tire manufacturers have been portraying airless tires as the way of the future. A few have even moved into production capacity on the airless front. These non-pneumatic rollers have been utilized mostly in commercial applications. A few years ago, however, America's own Polaris...
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Ferrari FXX K Rubber Goes Digital Testing Pirelli Cyber Tire
While tires might just look like round, black pieces of rubber, their simple exteriors belie some sophisticated engineering. And with its new Cyber Tire technology, Pirelli has taken them into the digital age. ALSO SEE: Watch Out: Driver Fined For Changing Songs Via Apple Watch As Evo reports, the...
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Goodyear Unveils Electricity-Generating And Shape-Shifting Concept Tires At Geneva
Goodyear shows concept tires that can generate electricity and change shape.
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Hankook: Preferred Tire Of Future Death Race Winners
Hankook currently churns out a wide range of rubber designed to suit the various needs of those driving on the street, and those who take it to the track. In the future, however, Hankook will become the gold standard for those seeking to win the upcoming death race spec series; the company's...
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Michelin Putting Tweel Airless Tire Into Production
Michelin will manufacture tweels in South Carolina.
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To truly test a brand new tire, you have to abuse it. You have to beat it up, thrash it, and run it as hard as you can. If it can last through the punishment unleashed upon it, it should be able to handle anything the average consumer throws its way. That's fine for street tires. Strap them on a set of wheels, put said wheels on a fast car, and head to a race track. Lap after lap will provide the driver with a whole heap of information from how the tire is performing to how its wearing out. MUST SEE: Lamborghini Pranksters Get Tased For Being Dumb: Video Justice What do you do if you have an...
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Flower Power Helps Horsepower With Dandelion-Based Tires
Dandelions are something of a garden pest, their yellow petals springing up everywhere you don't want them. As you might have noticed when snipping off their heads or digging out their roots though, the common garden weed secretes a milky white fluid—one which Dutch biologist Ingrid van der...
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Nokian Tyres Shows Winter Tire With Retractable Studs: Video
Modern technology can make some of James Bond's gadgets from just a decade ago look distinctly old-hat. But one Q-brand trick we've not seen yet is winter tires with retractable studs, like the ones seen on Bond's Aston Martin Vanquish in the movie Die Another Day. WATCH: Meet The World's First...
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Michelin EverGrip Tires Get Better With Age: Video
Tire tests, designed to explore the grip limits, traction, economy and noise of tires, are a vital consumer service. However capable your car is, it needs good tires to ensure it's as capable and safe in all conditions as possible. ALSO SEE: Polaris Airless Tires Go On Sale Testing has one major...
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Polaris Airless Tires Go On Sale
The Polaris Sportsman WV850 H.O. is the first production vehicle equipped with the company's airless tires.
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Hankook Is Latest To Roll Out Airless Tire Concept
Hankook has revealed a new airless tire design called i-Flex which makes its debut this week in concept form at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show. The i-Flex tire constitutes both the tire and wheel and is similar to previous concepts from Bridgestone as well as America’s own Polaris. Apart from...
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Some Porsche Carrera GT owners are probably quite familiar with the word "NO". Usually preceded by "OH" and suffixed by several exclamation marks and a few expletives as their V-10 supercar goes into an uncontrollable spin. Porsche might be elbows-deep in development of its 918 Spyder--successor to the Carrera GT--but it's had time to develop a 'NO' of its own. Well, a 'N0' anyway--a new specification of tire, co-developed with Michelin for the highly-respected supercar. The N0 inscription features on the sidewalls of the new Michelin Pilot Super Sport tire, and refers to the tire's new tread...
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Pirelli Creates Run-Silent Tires For High-End Audis
Pirelli, the producer of world-championship-winning tires and world-class calendars, has announced that its latest innovation aims to quiet things down a bit. The Italian tire manufacturer has created a tire that it says reduces cabin noise by up to 50 percent compared to standard tires. These...
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Coming Regulations May Downsize Tire Width, Too
Automakers are doing all they can to make cars lighter and more fuel efficient, as regulations for average fuel economy and permissible emissions grow ever tighter in Europe and the United States. While automakers have downsized engines in the name of fuel economy and have trimmed weight wherever...
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Pirelli Develops Bespoke Tires For The LaFerrari
Tires may be the most overlooked performance component on (most) modern automobiles. The tires delivered on mainstream cars are generally optimized for wear, fuel efficiency and ride comfort, not for grip or performance in extreme conditions. Enter the world of hypercars, however, and the design...
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Audi RS 6 Driven To New Ice Speed Record: Video
Finnish tire manufacturer Nokian Tyres has smashed its own ice-driving speed record set in March, 2011. The new record, an astonishing speed of 208.6 mph (335.7 kmh), was once again set by the firm’s test driver, Janne Laitinen, and beats the old record by 2.5 mph. Laitinen also used the same...
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America’s Polaris Promises Airless Tire By Next Year
Airless tires, or non-pneumatic tires as they’re known in the industry, have been around for several years now. In fact, Michelin first showed off its ‘Tweel’ airless tire back in 2005 and Bridgestone rolled out (excuse the pun) its own version of the technology just over a year...
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If you track your car on a regular basis, or spend weekends killing cones in autocross competition, you know how important a component tires are in your overall car setup. Choosing the right ultra-high performance tire can shave seconds off your lap time, or mean the difference between a first-place trophy and no trophy at all. The ultra-high performance tire category is a competitive one, with manufacturers like BF Goodrich, Toyo, Dunlop, Hankook and Falken all delivering solid products to consumers. Launch a new tire into this segment, and “good enough” simply won’t cut...
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To Boost Fuel Economy, GM Turns To Tire Technology
When it comes to increasing fuel economy, the obvious steps are decreasing engine size (and, often, performance), shaving pounds, refining aerodynamics and possibly implementing hybrid technology. Significant gains, however, can also be found in other areas. Tire design can contribute up to...
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Goodyear To Field-Trial Self-Inflating Tires In 2013
Under-inflated tires wear quicker, consume more gasoline and pose a potential blow-out risk as the tire heats up or comes unseated from the rim of the wheel. Despite the risks, Goodyear says that most drivers (without TPMS technology) only check tire pressure about once per year. In 2011, Goodyear...
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Can A New Process Make Flat Tires A Thing Of The Past?
Over the years, experience has taught us one thing time and time again: when something sounds too good to be true, chances are good that it won’t deliver as promised. That’s why we’re somewhat skeptical about a new tire-coating process, described in The Detroit News, that promises...
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German Scientists Working On 'Adaptive Tires'
Consider this: every tire on the market today is a compromise. Do you want the ultimate in adhesion, for cornering in warm and dry conditions? Done, but don’t try to drive on the tire in winter months, especially if there’s snow on the ground. Want off-road traction, capable of getting...
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A Close Look At The Ferrari F12 Berlinetta’s Michelin Tires
It doesn’t matter how much power you have under the hood, if you can’t get it to the ground sufficiently you won’t be going anywhere fast. Tires are one of the most overlooked features of a car, although they are arguably the single most important aspect in relation to...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran