Vredestein launches additional Wintrac Pro sizes

Apollo Tyres has added 11 new options to its award-winning Vredestein Wintrac Pro range. According to the company, the Wintrac Pro is suitable for a variety of vehicles, including the Peugeot 3008, Volkswagen ID5 and ID Buzz, and Tesla Model Y. The Wintrac Pro portfolio now encompasses 120 different dimension options, for rims from 17 to 22 inches.

Certified with the ‘Three Peak Mountain Snowflake’ (SPMSF) symbol, the Wintrac Pro is designed to offer “superior standards of all-weather cornering grip, short stopping distances and impressive control at high speeds”. Selected tyres in the Wintrac range are also now available with a ‘Y’ speed rating.

Developed by Apollo Tyres’ global R&D team in the Netherlands, Apollo Tyres has upgraded several sizes of the Wintrac Pro to better manage key characteristics of modern plug-in cars – for example, their increased weight compared to equivalent combustion-engine cars, and the fact that they can deploy maximum torque from lower speeds. Selected tyres in the range now have an ‘XL’ load index, meaning they can cope with significantly higher vehicle mass, and the speed index has been increased by one rating for seven of the available sizes.

Yves Pouliquen, Group Head of Sales and Marketing at Apollo Tyres commented: “The winter performance tyre segment is highly competitive and one that brings very significant technical challenges, such as creating a tyre that can perform just as well at very high speeds on a dry autobahn as on a snowy Alpine pass. The insights we gain from developments in this segment help us deliver new innovations and maintain leadership in the other categories in which Vredestein products have a competitive edge.”