Continental has unveiled the new PremiumContact 6 – a safe and comfortable tyre, with sports-bred DNA.
In the PremiumContact 6, Continental states that it has bridged the gap between a very comfortable tyre and a sporty one, with its tyre developers coming up with new solutions for maximum safety, high ride comfort and a tread design for superior handling.
“The main requirement of the new Premium Contact 6 is to deliver uncompromising safety,” Prof. Dr. Burkhard Wies, Head of Tyre Line Development EMEA/Americas OE and Replacement at Continental said.
“Developing a sedan tyre that is so balanced that it can meet this demanding requirement and at the same time deliver maximum comfort and precise, dynamic handling, as well as high mileage and low rolling resistance was both a major challenge and a huge motivator.”
Likes its predecessors, the ContiSportContact 5 and ContiPremiumContact 5, the new PremiumContact 6 offers top-class braking performance, particularly on wet roads.
The compounding experts at Continental developed solutions that enabled substantial progress in other tyre parameters without having to compromise the tyre’s high reserves of safety. For example, the use of a new crystalline silica compound for short braking distances on wet roads across all vehicle segments.
Continental’s chemists and engineers also broke new ground to attain marked improvement in mileage, rolling resistance and comfort, by combining an abrasion-resistant polymer compound with a supple tread pattern.
As a result, the new PremiumContact 6 presents a 15 per cent improvement in mileage compared to its predecessor, and at the same time interior and exterior tyre/road noise is down by up to 10 per cent.
Along with the high requirements in terms of safety and comfort, another key development focus was on delivering sporty handling across all models of car.
To achieve this, the tyre developers adopted the shoulder design of the high-tech SportContact tyre and combined it with asymmetrical tread rib geometry. This “Advanced Macro-Block Design” employs long shoulder blocks that support one another, providing additional grip. The resultant complex block structure in the tyre shoulder is capable of transferring even very high forces – like those generated under cornering – extremely effectively. The asymmetrical rib structure in the tread delivers a similar level of performance in transferring lateral guidance forces.
This has actually endowed the PremiumContact 6 with handling properties that are three per cent better than those of the ContiSportContact 5.
Continental’s new PremiumContact 6 will have tyres for mid-range cars to SUVs.
Source:
https://www.continental-tires.com/car/media-services/newsroom/20170913-new-premiumcontact-6
