How do you test wet braking?: Wet braking… This is one of the most critical performance where an outstanding tire is separated from a medium grade tires. As the braking distance is much longer compare to dry braking, wet braking has become a safety issue. Based on the press test in the comfort segment, the …
Pirelli Cinturato P1 vs Continental Comfort 6: The Pirelli Cinturato P1 was first launch back in 2010 and has been serving the market ever since with a key focus on comfort and mileage. As Pirelli’s involvement in Formula one propel them into a premium status, let’s have a quick comparison against one of the leading …
How to measure Rolling Resistance?: As global warming topics heats up the news circle, people has been paying more attention to sustainability topics and in particular rolling resistance for tires. So what is actually rolling resistance? The rolling resistance is defined as the energy loss per distancetraveled by the vehicle due to nonelastic deformations of …
When Michelin e.Primacy first came out, there were a lot of hype surrounding the sustainability and eco friendly nature of this product. With its attractive label class of “A” in rolling resistance and also “B” in wet braking, plus the addition of eco-responsibility, consumer are getting great value. However let’s take a deeper look into …
Bridgestone Ecopia HL001 vs Michelin Primacy SUV: Recently Bridgestone has launch a new SUV focus product in Malaysia called Ecopia HL 001. This product was previously launch in Australia & Korea in 2019. So this is not a totally new tire. Ecopia is Bridgestone’s fuel efficient tire line, naturally the product was assumed to have …
Continental Max Contact 6 vs Bridgestone Potenza Adrenalin RE004: One of the latest tire in the touring segment is the Bridgestone RE004 which was launch in May 2020. We know from its predecessor RE003, it excels clearly in dry handling performances. From the marketing material, the RE004 is also focus heavily on “providing excellent handling …
Continental UC6 vs MC6: Continental’s max contact 6 is a well known product which serves the touring segment with tire sizes predominantly from 17″-19″ inch. While the ultra contact 6 serves also the 16″-20″ inch market. Hence it is unavoidable that there will some overlap sizes. From our pricing table, we found out there is …
Continental CC6 vs UC6: When you are looking over what tire products Continental has for its Asia market you will notice something peculiar. Based on our tire price table , we found out the CC6 and UC6 actually cross paths for 5 sizes. ( 185/55R16, 185/60R15, 195/55R15, 205/55R16, 215/60R16) This begs the question, what are …
Pirelli Cinturato P1 review: Pirelli being the next biggest premium brand outside the top 4 tire manufacture list, we thought that we have a look at its comfort segment tire “Pirelli Cinturato P1” and see how well it performs in a magazine test. As all formula one enthusiast knows that Pirelli currently sponsors the formula …
Due to the strong marketing push from Continental, CC6 has developed a clear reputation in the market as the best noise & comfort tire. Question: Is it really so? If it is true, how about is other performances ? Luckily for us, CC6 was chosen as one of the tires tested in the Autohome China …