The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has been named a Thomson Reuters 2012 Top 100 Global Innovator, recognising its achievements as one of the world’s most innovative companies.
Topten Sweden, one of the most prestigious Swedish consumer websites, has selected the Pirelli Cinturato P7 Blue as the best tyre on the market when it comes to energy efficiency.
With Christmas fast approaching and temperatures plummeting, Italian tyre firm Pirelli is urging motorists to check their tyres to ensure they are offering optimum grip and safety on Ireland’s icy roads.
Bridgestone’s Technical Center Europe (TCE), based in Rome, has won the special Italian “E.ON Energia Award” for distinguishing itself in energy efficiency during 2012.
Continental has expanded its range of trailer tyres, adding a new size to the proven HTR 2 trailer tyre for demanding road usage on regional routes in the size 425/65 R 22.5.
Continental’s new ContiSportContact 5 is suitable for high performance sport cars and for SUVs with sporty ambitions. When compared with its popular predecessor, this new product reflects the substantial progress made by the tyre engineers – thanks to extensive research and tests carried out during the development period, braking distances on both wet and dry
Pirelli is eager to establish whether or not it will continue as the sole tyre supplier to Formula One ahead of next June’s deadline. The Italian tyres manufacturer signed a three year contract with the teams and the sport’s chiefs back in 2010 to become F1’s exclusive tyre partner.
The Goodyear 1:1 scale LEGO truck built for the IAA Commercial Vehicle show in Hanover, Germany was sold on eBay for €6,050. All the money will go to Doc Stop for Europeans eV, the charity set up to provide medical assistance to commercial vehicle drivers.
Over the course of 18 months, 37 automotive engineering students from Walsall College will take on a project of renovating a vintage fire engine from the 1950’s.
Dunlop tyres has announced that Mazda’s newly-redesigned 2014 Mazda6 sport saloon will be riding on Dunlop SP Sport 5000 tyres when the vehicle goes on sale early next year.
