One of the most important things to keep in mind when building your car for any kind of motorsport application is that the tires are almost always the most important part of your “build.” Well, okay, driving ability is most important, but tires are second. You have to have good tires to build the foundation of … Read more
A view of a Tesla Cybertruck parked in Noe Valley of San Francisco, California, United States on January 6, 2024. Image: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu (Getty Images) It has been about six months since Tesla’s Cybertruck made headlines for its unique aerodynamic wheel covers. The wheel covers eventually caused a stop-sale because they gradually ground holes in … Read more
As electric cars have taught us, car tires are a major source of undesirable noise in a car’s cabin. Honda has an ingenious solution to the issue, hidden resonators that work to cancel out the noise tires make, kind of like noise-cancelling headphones. Tires are like balls in that they are made of rubber and filled with … Read more
Image: Ferrari When the Ferrari Enzo supercar launched to the world back in 2002, the best that Pirelli could build was wrapped around the wheels of the angular icon. By today’s standards, after 22 years of development, those tires might as well be trash. For the Enzo to stand tall and deliver in 2024, it … Read more
There are no two ways about it, Formula 1 is a big ol’ waste of natural resources in the name of entertainment, burning through fuel at each race, releasing tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through the transportation of equipment around the world and chucking out hundreds of tires every weekend. Now, in an … Read more
Screenshot: Tyre Reviews When it comes to buying tires, the default advice for a long time has been to just get the Michelins. They won’t be as cheap as some of the other tires the shop sells, but you’ll get a fantastic tire that’s essentially guaranteed to be either the best or one of the … Read more
It has come to our attention that the world is expensive right now. Just the mere act of surviving costs more than it ever has, and wages aren’t keeping pace with inflation. You’ve still got expenses, and it always seems that an emergency crops up at exactly the wrong time. So if you got a … Read more
Photo: Jun Xu (Getty Images) An aircraft’s tires are usually an afterthought for most airline passengers. Despite only being on the ground for brief periods of time during most flights, planes still use their tires a great deal. Incredibly, aircraft tires rarely blow out but have relatively short lifespans. Ride Along in the 2024 Corvette … Read more
Screenshot: Tyre Reviews If automakers could sell cars without tires, we’re pretty sure the bean counters in accounting would do exactly that. They probably wouldn’t even think twice about it. Since they can’t get away with that, though, all new cars come with tires, and it would be easy to assume that because the tires … Read more
I am a native Angeleno, born and raised apart from two years in Boston where I didn’t drive much, so I had never really driven on snow until I was recently invited to the Bridgestone Winter Driving School in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Thankfully the weather was in the high 40s to low 50s during the … Read more
