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SUV & pickup tires good prices, better grip.
Drivers of fuel-thirsty sport-utility vehicles and pickup trucks may be taking a hit at the pumps, but they're getting a break on replacement tires.
While you can still spend $120 or more per tire for the common, P235/70R16 size we tested, we paid well under $100 for several high-scoring models. Prices have changed little since our 2001 test of SUV and pickup-truck tires as manufacturers compete and import brands such as Hankook and Kumho vie for a share of the nearly 250 million passenger tires shipped in America each year.
You'll also find better tires for SUVs and pickups, which are categorized as light trucks. An array of newer, more capable entries ...
- Rolling resistance is top priority. (truck tires)
- Magazine article from: European Rubber Journal Davis, Bruce May 1, 1996 700+ words
...criteria pendulum has swung back towards rolling resistance and fuel economy, as tyre makers...slightly in their approach to reduced rolling resistance, they agree that lower fuel consumption...segmentation of the marketplace, as rolling resistance optimised tyres yield their ...
- Continental ads tout truck tires.(News)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Rubber & Plastics News March 3, 2003 700+ words
...North America Inc.'s Commercial Group tout the long original mileage and low rolling resistance of the firm's latest generation of Continental truck tires. One ad, titled ``The Perfect Balance,'' features two tires suspended as...
- The crucial 'Test Out West'; Continental introduces seven Conti-brand medium...
- Magazine article from: Tire Business March 17, 2003 700+ words
...Continental-brand medium truck tires that have been designed...Continental medium truck tires available, the company...showed the new Conti truck tires comparing favorably...competition in low rolling resistance/fuel mileage and...
- Goodyear truck tires cut gas use: New commercial line aims to ease fuel woes,...
- Newspaper article from: Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH) August 25, 2006 700+ words
...of fuel-efficient truck tires Thursday in an effort...compounds and low rolling resistance to create the efficiencies...more than standard truck tires. Goodyear has dubbed...standard Goodyear truck tires. Fuel efficiency...
- Consumer Reports Rates Goodyear Fortera HL Edition Best in Tests of All-Season,...
- News wire article from: AScribe Business & Economics News Service October 4, 2004 700+ words
...season light-truck tires performed well overall...steering control), rolling resistance, snow traction...season, light-truck tires. Prices shown below...grip and much lower rolling resistance for better fuel efficiency...
- GOODYEAR INTRODUCES FOUR NEW TRUCK TIRES
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 21, 1993 700+ words
...four new highway truck tires were introduced here...Series Unisteel radial truck tires, Goodyear says they...innovations also offer lower rolling resistance over conventional line...of medium commercial truck tires, whose team managed...
- All about truck tires.
- Magazine article from: Trailer Boats Kovacik, Bob December 1, 1996 700+ words
...ride and have a better rolling resistance, which improves fuel...about all popular light-truck tires have radial construction...a result of decreased rolling resistance. Rolling resistance is the amount of drag...
- They may be super...but Conti still sees wide-base truck tires as a...
- Magazine article from: Tire Business Mikolajczyk, Sigmund J. April 10, 2006 700+ words
...rolling all the way on wide-base truck tires. But Continental Tire North America...We have seen in our testing a lower rolling resistance vs. duals,'' though he couldn...tire spoons' used for all commercial truck tires,'' Mr. Chmiel said, noting, however...