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Donegal cousins, Declan and Brian Boyle (Subaru WRC) clinched the Dunlop National Rally Championship with a resounding victory in the Clonmel based Sepam Tipperary Stonethrowers Rally last weekend.

A survey recently commissioned by Goodyear in several European countries revealed that, currently, fleets prefer to make their tyre choice based on tyre performance rather than tyre application. The most important performance area for operators is rolling resistance, which directly influences fuel efficiency. Of the fleets interviewed, 77 per cent classified this as “very important” or “extremely

Trelleborg Wheel Systems is planning s global roll out of its Brawler range of large off-the-road solid tyres. The Brawler range includes specialist tyres for the most demanding environments of waste, recycling and underground mining. The range perfectly complements Trelleborg’s existing range of premium tyres for materials handling applications and develops the company’s already successful

Michelin is warning drivers not to become complacent when using new tyre pressure monitoring systems. Welcoming the new electronic safety device – which will be required as a standard fitment on all newly manufactured cars from November 2014 – Michelin’s Head of Fleet Dave Crinson said: “Although it is an excellent tool, there is the

Cooper Tire Europe will showcase its extensive range of high-performance, winter and 4×4 offerings at the Moscow International Motor Show later this month (August 26-29). The tyre manufacturer will host a stand in Hall three of the exposition centre for the four-day event. All of Cooper’s key brands within Russia will be featured, with the

Dunlop is set to co-operate with the Red Bull sponsored FMX4Ever freestyle motocross team. As part of this new co-operation, Dunlop will provide advanced off-road motorcycle tyres for the team.

Firestone has launched the new Maxi Traction Combine to comply with today’s farmers’ needs: a reliable tyre to avoid downtime during harvesting season, with very high load capacity for ever-heavier harvesting machinery, and causing minimum impact on the soil. High load capacity withstanding cyclic load With the worldwide trend of increased size of agricultural machinery,

Donegal cousins, Declan and Brian Boyle are on the cusp of clinching their inaugural Dunlop National Rally Championship as Sunday’s, Sepam Tipperary Stonethrowers Rally offers them the first of three such title clinching opportunities.

Technology in an average car today is hugely advanced on what motorists would have encountered even just 10 years ago.  The pace of change is relentless and continuing. 

Breaking the lap record round BBC Top Gear’s test track at Dunsfold, Surrey has become a preoccupation of supercar manufacturers the world over. However, far from being a heavily-funded global producer, the latest contender was the diminutive UK-based Briggs Automotive Company (BAC), whose innovative 285bhp Mono recently circulated in just 1 minute 14.3 seconds, thereby

Automakers expect tyres that not only demonstrate top performance characteristics but are also particularly quiet, generating only what the occupants perceive as a pleasant noise level. To meet these expectations, Continental has introduced a new technology that substantially reduces tyre noise inside the cabin.