Pilot Sport 4 SUV tyre delivers comfort, safety
New Michelin tyre – a huge success in Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY, Sept 1: The SUV segment has seen huge growth in recent years the launches of several really serious high performance SUVs. These present a new challenge for tyre designers – a much higher centre of gravity than your typical sports car and heavier body weights which necessitate a tyre that works with higher and larger centrifugal/lateral forces.
That is why Michelin has developed the new specialist Pilot Sport 4 SUV range – real sports tyres adapted to an SUV – rather than a sporty SUV tyre. The new Michelin Pilot Sport 4 SUV replaces the Michelin Latitude Sport 3 and can be used for the full range of SUVs – 4X4, compact, medium, premium and sports, the latter being a sector with strong growth.
This new tyre benefits from the powerful innovation capacities of the Michelin Group and the latest technologies of the Michelin Pilot Sport range, with an emphasis on control and stability at high speed while guaranteeing safety and a long tyre life.
The Michelin Pilot Sport 4 SUV tyre delivers exceptional comfort and the pleasure of driving sporty SUVs, in safe conditions on dry and wet roads alike, while having a longer tyre life compared to its competitors. Michelin has managed to combine all these features by using motorsport tyre technologies in addition to innovations taken from the latest Formula E tyres.
The new Michelin Pilot Sport 4 SUV tyre has exceptional grip compared to its competitors thanks to the asymmetrical design of its tyre tread: the outer part for dry conditions and the internal part for wet conditions. It also features a new compound mix of special operational and innovating elastomers and fine silica. The ultra-reactive tyre tread design adapts to road conditions through dynamic interaction between the tread pattern and the advanced tread compounds to deliver perfect management of the tyre contact patch.
The tread grooves are designed to produce a stiffer tread and improve lateral grip. To optimise driving precision, the tyre tread is equipped with the ‘Dynamic Response’ technology, a belt with a hybrid reinforcement made of aramid and nylon.
While the asymmetrical tyre tread provides exceptional grip, the Michelin Pilot Sport 4 SUV tyre also has an excellent tyre life due to the rigid tread blocks and a twolayer high density casing ply which reinforces its stiffness
The tyre was designed with the objective of providing maximum driving pleasure in safe conditions for drivers of a premium SUVs with long-lasting performance. It was also developed to improve driving comfort and to reduce the associated noise.