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Formula One Autocentres opens new Burnley branch
13th March 2025On 7 March, Formula One Autocentres announced that it had opened a new location in Burnley. Alongside our tyres and car servicing the Burnley centre offers “exhausts, batteries, brakes, suspension, clutches, air conditioning, puncture repair and wheel alignment”. The latest opening means Formula one now has a total of 133 centres across the UK. Across all those branches, Formula One Autocentres reports that it fits half a million tyres a year.
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Remember This? March 2025
11th March 2025Our monthly magazine column looks back at the biggest news events from the tyre industry five, 10, 15 and 20 years ago. The March 2025 edition looks back to March issues from 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019 for some of the biggest tyre industry news of those months. Click the month and year to access the digital edition of the relevant issue of the magazine from Tyres & Accessories’ expanding digital archive. March 2020... Aeolus produced “the largest engineering radial tyre” in the company’s history. The Aeolus 57 inch 46/90R57 AG01 earthmover radial tyre was developed for use on 220 tonne heavy-duty mine dump trucks.
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From exemplary to not recommendable – Auto Bild Sportscars tests 245/35 R19 tyres
Cars with 19-inch rims were still something special even ten years ago, but not these days. This size is standard for many manufacturers, particularly on their sportier models. Auto Bild Sportscars has selected 245/35 R19 for its summer 2025 test, a dimension that is a popular optional fitment for the now-retired Audi TT.
Continue ReadingHankook iON Evo wins AutoBild electric vehicle tyre test
AutoBild has made the Hankook iON Evo the top product in its electric vehicle test. The winner of the 2024 WhatTyre Tyre of the Year and Electric Car Tyre of the Year impressed the German motoring magazine’s independent testers with its all-round abilities, notably matching Continental’s PremiumContact 7 at the top of the table in wet performance. It was one of two tyres developed specifically for EVs included in the test, the other being Falken’s E.Ziex, which distinguished itself particu
Continue ReadingImportant milestone in our renewed future journey – Nokian Tyres debuts Seasonproof 2
Russia’s attack on Ukraine in February 2022 almost certainly affected Nokian Tyres more than any other tyre maker. The firm manufactured 80 per cent of all its car tyres in its factory in Vsevolozhsk, capacity that couldn’t be replaced overnight. After selling the plant near St Petersburg to Russian oil and gas company Tatneft for a paltry 286 million euros, the Finnish company set about starting anew in the region. In September 2024, Nokian Tyres opened an entirely new plant in Oradea, Roma
Continue ReadingTyrepress sites offer powerful platform for global tyre business
With 1.5 million users from 232 territories in the last calendar year, Tyrepress publisher Tyre Industry Publications offers a truly global and independent news and analysis platform for the tyre, servicing and aftermarket business. Figures from Google Analytics demonstrate that Tyrepress, its Chinese-language business news site Tyrepress China, and consumer tyre advice website WhatTyre, together offer a substantial and unique service for readers and advertisers alike.
Continue ReadingSerbia CV tyre import share surges as local production benefits help it into top 5 – Astutus Research
This time last year, Tyres & Accessories reflected on the changes witnessed in the sources of commercial vehicle tyre imports into the 27 countries of the European Union and the United Kingdom (EU27+UK) since the EU’s tariffs regime and the change accelerant of the Covid pandemic. In 2017, China was supplying 65 per cent of all imports in this market, which at that point measured a little more than 7 million units. With Turkey the source of around 10 per cent, and Korea and Japan supplying aro
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