Continental to Equip Ram Trucks
5 Mar 2010, 10:36 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Ram customers should know that from 2010, Continental Tire the Americas, LLC will supply the original equipment truck tires for Ram medium-duty Chassis Cab trucks. The Ram 4500 and 5500 Chassis Cab ...
Goodyear Shows Space Tires at Geneva
4 Mar 2010, 09:12 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / The Geneva Auto Show is not an important venue only for producers, but also for tire manufacturers. Therefore Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company's decided to present its new products at the 80t...
Michelin Gets Tire Manufacturer of the Year Award
17 Feb 2010, 14:18 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Michelin did not have such a bad year in 2009, though the world’s second largest tiremaker announced that its profit decreased by 71 percent in 2009 as a result of falling sales and increasing...
Michelin Launched Pilot Sport 3
15 Feb 2010, 13:12 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Drivers in need of some serious grip should know that Michelin launched its Pilot Sport 3, which will replace the current Pilot Exalto and Pilot Sport 2 ranges. The new model is supposed to combine ...
Continental Increases Load Capacity to HDL2 D2 Tire
11 Feb 2010, 11:08 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Continental Tire the Americas has just announced that its HDL2 DL (Heavy Drive Long Haul, Deep Lug) tire has been improved to provide increased load capacity. The tire was introduced in 2009 but sta...
BioIsoprene Tires Presented by Goodyear
3 Dec 2009, 10:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the eve of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, tire manufacturer Goodyear announced it managed to create, together with Genencor, the first tire made with BioIsoprene tech...
Mercedes Benz Joins TyreSafe
30 Nov 2009, 11:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / German carmaker Mercedes Benz decided to join UK's tire safety organization, TyreSafe, making it the second manufacturer group to do so. As part of the program, the Germans will run a series of...
Bridgestone Closes Plants in Australia, New Zealand
26 Oct 2009, 09:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Tire manufacturer Bridgestone is getting ready to close several tire making facilities in Australia and New Zealand, as a result of the competition which has made "tire manufacturing in Austral...
UK Drivers Seldom Check Their Tires...
14 Oct 2009, 10:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / ...and often get into some type of car crash just because of this reason. According to a study conducted by safety organization TyreSafe, nearly 25 percent of East Anglia and North West almost never...
How Run-Flat Tires Work
23 Sep 2009, 15:22 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Replacing a flat tire with the spare one is often a nightmare, especially if you're a women or (to avoid getting accused of a misogynist attitude) if you're a man and outside, the heavy ra...
Goodyear to Buy TC Debica
23 Sep 2009, 07:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Tire manufacturer Goodyear announced yesterday it has made an offer to buy "any and all outstanding shares" of the Polish tire manufacturer Debica, at a price of 59.52 PLN per share ($21.1...
Frankfurt Auto Show: Kumho Tire Technology
18 Sep 2009, 12:16 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Alongside new production cars, concepts and tuned models, innovative technologies that are strongly connected with the automotive industry are also part of the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show. That is also...
China-US Tire Wars Worries Bridgestone
17 Sep 2009, 08:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The upcoming introduction of the 35 percent duty for the US bound Chinese tires has sparked the first signs of distress in Europe and Asia. Japanese tire manufacturer Bridgestone recently said the d...
China Warns US on Tire Duty
14 Sep 2009, 09:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The new tire duty approved by the Obama administration on tires which come from China has all the odds of turning from a small-lake ripple into an all out tsunami. After the somewhat cautious statem...
US Slaps 35 Percent Duty on Chinese Tires
13 Sep 2009, 12:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / US president Barack Obama announced a new additional duty on tire imports from China, in a move perceived by local US labor groups as great and by the Chinese as yet another protectionist move made...
Yokohama dB super E-spec Tires for Canadian Prius
21 Aug 2009, 13:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese manufacturer Yokohama announced yesterday the release of a new ultra-low rolling resistance tire, especially created to fit the needs of the Toyota Prius hybrid vehicles. The Yokohama dB su...
Tire Sales Expected to Decline in 2009
11 Aug 2009, 07:29 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / Because of declining car sales and re-planned tire running, the tire industry projected a 16 percent drop in volume sales for 2009. According to a study made by Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA...
Goodyear and NASA Develop Spring Moon Tire
4 Aug 2009, 10:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In light of the upcoming return of the human race to the Moon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has partnered, among others, with Goodyear for the development of an airless t...
Kumho Fortis SUV Preview
30 Jul 2009, 12:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you haven't yet come across the Kumho name as a car manufacturer so far, don't worry, you haven't missed out on the latest from the automotive world. Kumho is in fact a tire manufa...
Bridgestone Switch to Consecutive Tire Compounds for 2009
1 Jul 2009, 11:16 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Japanese tire manufacturer Bridgestone has finally given in to the pressure of both teams and drivers regarding their policy of gap in compound collocation for the ongoing F1 season. Until now, Brid...