Tyre News

Continental Tyre Group has confirmed that its PremiumContact 7 will enter the UK tyre market in autumn 2022. According to the company, the new tyre has placed “great emphasis” on being an “all-rounder tyre for combustion engine, electric and hybrid vehicles”.

With petrol and diesel still costing an arm and a leg, Bridgestone has provided a series of fuel-saving tips to help ease the pain at the pumps. By tweaking driving styles, Bridgestone believe that a typical tank can last longer and ensure that trips to the forecourt aren’t needed quite so urgently. Bridgestone’s Technical Manager Gary Powell has devised the following tips to extract more miles from each journey.

There are more reported tyre-related incidents in summer than at any other time of the year. Longer journeys with extra loads in vehicles with defective tyres can result in catastrophic failures. Both great reasons to take heed of road safety charity TyreSafe’s latest summer tyre-care advice.

When Apollo 11 touched down on the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969, it was also a giant leap for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Goodyear provided a number of essential components for this history-making mission and later supplied non-pneumatic tyres for the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle. The tyre maker is once again looking spacewards and is developing tyres for a lunar vehicle that in future may bring private enterprise to the Earth’s rocky satellite.

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has opened the order books for prospective ID. Buzz owners in the UK and provided information about the tyres these all-electric campervans will wear. UK customers can choose from three trim levels: Life, Style and 1st Edition. Depending on model, they will receive either Continental or Hankook tyres as standard equipment.

Isuzu has factory equipped its D-MAX with General Grabber AT tyres since 2015, and the latest version of the pick-up continues this tradition. D-MAX LSE and V-Cross models wear the Grabber AT3 as standard in size 265/60 R18 110H.