Michelin demonstrated the X-Ice Snow's winter performance capabilities in a variety of handling, braking and cornering courses at Circuit Mecaglisse. See more from the ride 'n' drive!
Madeleine Winer is Editor of Tire Review magazine. She joined the Tire Review staff as a senior editor in 2017. Before joining the tire industry, she worked as a producer and reporter at the Louisville Courier Journal. She is a graduate of Kent State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and speaks Spanish fluently.
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After a 20-in. snowfall in the St. Saveur mountains 80 miles outside Montreal, Michelin North America took members of the media to motorsports complex Circuit Mecaglisse to experience the company’s newest winter tire – the Ice X-Snow.
Built with a new tread design and compound package, the X-Ice Snow and X-Ice Snow SUV replace Michelin’s X-Ice Xi3 and Latitude X-Ice Xi2. At the track, Michelin demonstrated the X-Ice Snow’s winter performance capabilities in a variety of handling, braking and cornering courses. Scroll down to see more from the ride ‘n’ drive.
The Kenda Klever M/T2 is a second-generation tire that features Kenda’s T3 Triple Threat sidewall, an optimized tread compound and interlocking tread blocks for aggressive off-road performance, Kenda says.
Madeleine Winer is Editor of Tire Review magazine. She joined the Tire Review staff as a senior editor in 2017. Before joining the tire industry, she worked as a producer and reporter at the Louisville Courier Journal. She is a graduate of Kent State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and speaks Spanish fluently.
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Kenda Tires is adding to its Klever brand of off-road tires with the launch of its next-generation mud-terrain tire that promises maximum traction in off-road environments. SEMA Show attendees received a sneak peek of the tire – the Kenda Klever M/T2 KR629 – at Kenda's booth, both in a standalone display that showed off the tire's tread design and on a 1969 Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser from Proffitt's Resurrection Land Cruisers.
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Michelin and its partners unveiled an industrial-scale demonstrator for producing bio-based butadiene, a key ingredient in synthetic rubber production.