The car tires are classified according to the region, which can be roughly divided into Europe, North America, Japan and South Korea, Southeast Asia, and China. Tires are closely related to the local automobile industry, and even indirectly determine the brand positioning.
Typical examples such as South Korea, South Korean automotive products are positioned close to the people, and Hankook and Kumho also pay more attention to this aspect. Japan and the United States are veteran automobile powers, and the auto markets of the two countries are highly bundled, so the tire brands of the two countries are mainly based on economy and off-road. Tire brands in China and Southeast Asia have also been positioned according to local auto companies, and major tire brands such as Maggis, Giti, Chaoyang, and Linglong have been born.
What is different in Europe is that as the birthplace of the automobile, a large number of sports events and sports cars, luxury, family, and economic cars have been involved in an all-round way, which has led to the birth of many top-performance and comprehensive tire brands in Europe, including the well-known German horse brand, Michelin and Pirelli.
Before choosing the right tire, figure out your needs.
Most tire brands have a comprehensive layout from top to bottom, with various series such as economy, luxury, comfort, performance, etc., so if it is not a completely home, economically oriented model, the price is more than 150,000, and the control and mute can focus on European brands when there are some requirements.
The problem is that a tire can't be perfect in every way, and if there is, it's not the best in every way.
If you care about cost, you should focus on wear resistance, but wear resistance will affect comfort and handling to a certain extent, and noise will increase. For some non-entry models, some of the gains are not worth the loss. Taxis tend to choose wear-resistant tires.
If you care about performance, such as Lynk & Co 03+, Golf GTI, BMW 240i and other cars, you need to focus on grip. Tires with good grip can effectively increase the limits of the vehicle, and the corresponding wear resistance will become worse. If in order to accommodate wear resistance, the performance of the whole vehicle can not be played, in fact, it will cause greater waste.
The Lynk & Co 03 and Lynk & Co 03+ use different tyres, and the 03+ uses the German horse brand MC6
If it is a business trip, such as buick GL8, Mercedes-Benz V and other models, you need to focus on comfort.
If it is a new energy model or a luxury car, due to the innate excellent tranquility or high requirements for tranquility, you should focus on quietness to choose tires to obtain a quieter riding experience.
Once you have a need, you can choose the product according to Tu Suoji. Most car brands have a clear series division, it is not difficult to understand at all, for example, the German horse brand has a total of three categories: all-round, sports and off-road, the naming rule is Conti-XXXX-Contact-number. Conti is an abbreviation for a German horse brand, Contact is a fixed suffix, and the number represents generations. The focus is on the XXXX section.
The all-rounder is represented by Eco (Economy), Comfort (Comfort), Max (Premium), Ultra (Higher), and North (North). Sport type with Sport, off-road type with Cross and 4X4, AT, etc.
Through English, it is easy to judge the characteristics of the tire.
For example, the MC6, full name ContiMaxContact 6, is an all-round tire that combines sport and comfort and silence.
If you don't know the demand, you can "respect the original top model selection"
The tires selected for the top model are a very important reference criterion (in addition to the cost reduction of the operation).
Most car brands don't care much about top-of-the-line sales. The significance of the existence of the top is mainly to show the fully armed technology configuration and the performance configuration of the full body, so the top model will not care about the cost like the entry model, but will carefully adapt to a tire.
Otherwise, why do you think the media test is all top-of-the-line? Sometimes the feelings of the car you buy and the media are not very consistent, and you don't have to pay too much attention.
Take my Regal GS as an example.
The Regal GS is equipped with German horse brand MC5 tires (Buick especially likes to use German horse brands). The MC5 is an all-round tire that is generally chosen for slightly advanced and sporty models.
2017 Regal GS German Horse Brand MC5
The MC5 features stability at high speeds and handling on dry roads, in addition to maintaining noise reduction and shock absorption capabilities, providing a comfortable experience. Buick's choice of this tire reflects the change in Buick Regal GS.
Compared with the previous generation of Regal, Buick hopes that the new Regal will no longer emphasize sports too much, but will become a mainstream family car with a sporty style, allowing more families to choose, so the tires of the new Regal GS are consistent with the ordinary Regal (spit). Although overseas is 20 inches, although overseas is a hatchback, in order to reduce costs, Regal GS has become a family car equipped with A GS kit.
From the MC5 to the CSC3, it is basically a shotgun for a gun. The CSC series is a german horse brand specially equipped tires for high-performance sports cars, the biggest feature is the precise steering, asymmetrical pattern rib design, even if the vehicle's various "twists" can maintain a strong grip.
With the top-of-the-line model, it is easy for car owners to choose more advanced tires.
Although the tires of this generation of Regal GS have changed, the German horse brand MC5 is also a very good choice. Since the official choice of MC5 for the top match, it must consider the performance of suspension and power. As one of the main forces of German horse brands, the MC series actually has many luxury brands to choose from.
For example, Weilai ES6 adopts the German horse brand MC6, but the starting point is completely different.
Nio ES6 chose the MC6 of the 255/50 R20, and the purpose is obvious
In terms of handling, weilai ES6 is not excellent, relatively soft suspension, relatively large body, the steering is more blurred, the overall or focus on luxury, comfort and silence. However, Weilai insists on dual motors, and the performance of ES6 is actually not bad at all. For such a relatively heavy and luxurious new energy vehicle, braking and comfort need to be taken into account, and the choice of MC series is completely expected.
As for the MC6 instead of the MC5, because of the new formulation and new pattern, the MC6 has better wet and dry grip and drainage. Even some cars with poor suspension tuning can rely on this tire to achieve better results.
However, this method is not very suitable for new energy models, because the WEIO ES6 does not have a clear high-end and low-end configuration, unlike Tesla and Mustang Mach-E, which have a performance version and a long-endurance version.
Personally, I think the long-endurance version prefers low roll resistance and silence. There are currently many divergences between performance versions, with some brands defaulting on performance that can sacrifice silence and even increase engine sound, while others want to continue to maintain the quiet advantages of new energy models.
More typical are Polar Star 2 and Audi eTron, PoleStar 2 dual motor top matching chose the German horse brand CSC6; Audi eTron high match also chose the German horse brand CSC6.
Audi etron top with CSC6
The reason why the high choice of German horse brand CSC6 is because the performance tires that emphasize grip are often noisy, and one of the biggest features of German horse brands is silence, and the ContiSilent mute technology can be kept silent under the strong grip of the tram, and the maximum can be reduced by 9 decibels.
Although 9 decibels does not seem large, it is very obvious to actually experience, after all, the noise of 70 decibels is ten times that of 60 decibels, which is not a simple addition or subtraction.
In order to emphasize the contradiction between its own performance and tranquility, Polar Star 2 endorsed the German horse brand ContiSilent mute technology.
ContiSilent is actually a technique for attaching sound-absorbing cotton material to the inner wall of a tire, not some sort of pattern. By setting a sound-absorbing cotton inside the tire, the noise generated by the impact of the tire and the road surface is directly absorbed, and other noises are repeatedly refracted inside the tire, and finally gradually absorbed. At the same time, applying ContiSilent material to the inside of the tire can reduce the noise caused by the air squeezing inside the tire on the road.
All of these technologies are done on the inner wall of the tire, without affecting the external pattern and material of the tire, and therefore without affecting the original performance. Basically, most of the current performance models, which require both performance and noise, will choose the German horse brand.
The choice of tires for air shortages.
There is also a special case in the car tire is the lack of air to maintain the tire, this tire BMW, Mercedes-Benz in use. In fact, this kind of tire uses a thicker tire wall, and the disadvantage is obvious, that is, it is heavy, expensive and particularly hard.
Heavy leads to high fuel consumption, power loss, expensive leads to increased cost of use, 150% more expensive than ordinary tires, hard leads to poor comfort, high noise, so the use of this type of tire, quietness is generally not good, so can not choose not to choose.
Krypton and Cadillac LYRIQ offer a new option. If you order the Krypton 001 with the option of more advanced tires, you will find a German horse brand self-repairing tire.
Self-repair is actually a better technique than out-of-air retention. The use of air shortage is the tire wall, and the self-repair use of a sealant, the German horse brand called ContiSeal self-repair technology.
ContiSeal self-repair technology utilizes a highly viscous and fluid butyl rubber (which is more expensive) that adheres evenly to the inside of the tire wall and copes with the daily puncture of some studs (less than 5 mm in diameter) through balanced flow and viscosity. Once the tire is nailed, the sealant can be attached to the surroundings for a quick seal. Once the nail is removed, the sealant automatically bonds to complete the self-healing of the piercing.
This material has high chemical stability and is also helpful in reducing noise due to its attachment to the inner wall.
The advantage of this technology is that in addition to the comfort and economy of ordinary tires, it can also play the effect of exhausting tires, although the two are achieved in completely different ways.
Finally, automotive tire brands have their own advantages and characteristics, and there is no absolutely unique answer. High-end consumers have their own answers in mind, choose tires according to the personality of the model, and general consumers can choose according to the top recommendation and mainstream products.
Just remember, the most you sell isn't necessarily the best for you.
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