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Toyo Announces Technical Partner Agreements with European Manufacturers

Toyo Tire & Rubber has formed technical partner agreements with Breyton, BMW’s tuner, Kleeman, Mercedes Benz’s tuner, and Sportec, Porsche’s tuner. According to the company, the agreements represent a part of Toyo Tire’s efforts to collaborate with leading European tuners. Toyo Tire expects that the partnerships with these three European tuners will be mutually beneficial in terms of technology information exchanges and increased brand exposure gained by promoting their brands with each other at trade shows and advertising activities.

8th June 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Bosch Releases Diagnostic Update

Bosch has released the updated 2005 version of its range of DVD-based technical information, ESI[tronic]. The new version of the company’s software package will provide garage technicians with more technical knowledge for problem solving on a wider range of modern vehicles.

26th May 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Jaguar Plant Number One in US Initial Quality Study

Ford Motor Company’s Halewood Jaguar assembly has earned the Gold Plant Quality Award for assembly plant quality in the European region, according to the J D Power and Associates. The 2005 US Initial Quality Study (IQS) found that the Jaguar X-Type, receives a score of 70 problems per 100 vehicles, the best score among European plants assembling vehicles for export to the United States. The Halewood plant, which was first included in the IQS in 2002, has shown a 55 per cent quality improvement to 70 problems per hundred in 2005 from 157 in 2002.

19th May 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

European Car Registrations

The European car market rose 1.5 per cent in April according to POLK. Among the different OEMs BMW registrations were up 22 per cent and Porsche 26 per cent.

Figures were down 1.1 per cent for VW and 0.1 per cent for Renault. Mercedes brand sales were up 2.5 per cent. On the weak side: Peugeot was down 4.7 per cent and Fiat again very weak, was down 15 per cent. Overall, April was a good month for the premium brands, volume brands remained sluggish.

16th May 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

New Off Road Tuning Wheel

Size does matter. Well that’s what Cobra Technologie & Lifestyle say. And in keeping with this philosophy the company now offers the new Cobra Sahara 10Jx22 light-alloy wheel for premium off-road vehicles such as the BMW X5, the Mercedes M-Class, the Mitsubishi V60, the Porsche Cayenne, the Volvo XC 90 and the VW Touareg.

9th May 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Cambridge-MIT Institute publishes ‘Who killed MG Rover’ Report

The Cambridge-MIT Institute’s Centre for Competitiveness and Innovation (CCI), at the University of Cambridge has published a 33-page report investigating the final collapse of the MG-Rover in April 2005. Report authors Dr Matthias Holweg and Professor Nick Oliver investigate the final collapse of MG-Rover in April 2005, and address two main questions. First, what were the reasons for the final collapse, and was this avoidable? Second, who or what was responsible for the circumstances that put MG Rover in such a precarious position, and what critical choices sealed the fate of Rover?

29th April 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

BEN Team Raises Marathon Money

On Sunday 17th April thousands of people took to the streets of London to run the 25th Flora London Marathon. BEN, the Motor and Allied Trades Benevolent Fund, had a team of nine industry members running to raise money for the charity. This is the largest team BEN has ever entered into the gruelling 26.2 mile race and the Fund hopes to raise around £10,000 in sponsorship thanks to the participation and hard work of the runners.

25th April 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone to Supply Run-Flats as OE to BMW

(Akron/Tire Review) Bridgestone Corp., parent company of Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire (BFNAT), announced it will supply all-season Bridgestone-brand Turanza EL42 run-flat tyres and summer Bridgestone-brand Potenza RE050A run-flat tyres as original equipment on the 2006 BMW 3 Series performance car.

20th April 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli OE on BMW M6

Pirelli tyres have been chosen as original equipment on the BMW M6, the German manufacturer’s new Luxury Sports Coupé, presented this week to the international press, exclusively shod with the ultra-high-performance P Zero Corsa System.

19th April 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

BMW goes on the “Attack”

BMW has chosen the Continental Road Attack as original equipment for its R1200RT motorcycle.

The sports-touring tyre is the first OE contract for the new radial. The tyre was developed “hand in hand” with BMW to achieve the contract and was specifically tailored to the R1200RT performance requirements, says UK distributor Cambrian Tyres.

BMW has also extended homologation to fit the tyre to the R1100S, R1150R and K1200RS models. Continental is also original equipment supplier to BMW’s GS range in the form of the “world conquering” TKC80 enduro tyre, that fitted to the bikes of Charley Boorman and Ewan Mcgregor in their “Long Way Round” project.

12th April 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

F1 Teams Boycott FIA Meeting

(Akron/Tire Review) Associated Press has reported that nine Formula One teams and five F1 car manufacturers will boycott a meeting this week with the FIA in another move interpreted as increasing their bid for a new grand prix series.

FIA’s meeting on 15 April was reportedly called to discuss 2008 race season regulations. The only race team and constructor committed to attending the meeting is Ferrari, which signed a multi-year deal to remain in F1.

11th April 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Beissbarth Aligner Upgrade

Beissbarth is marking its 25-year working relationship with BMW through the introduction of the upgraded Beissbarth Kinematic Diagnostic (KDSII) wheel aligner, used by BMW world-wide.
Existing Beissbarth KDSIs are being networked to meet BMW’s information systems and upgraded to KDSII facilities.

BMW was the first manufacturer to request Beissbarth to develop a wheel alignment system for them, based on the popular Microline principle. All leading vehicle manufacturers now recommend the Microline, making Beissbarth a world leader in wheel alignment technology.

30th March 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

New sizes for ‘Big Trailies’

Michelin’s sports-touring tyre, Pilot Road, has two new additions for fitment to big trail bikes.

110/80 R 19 59V front and 150/70 R 17 69V rear are designed for bikes including the Honda Varadero, Triumph Tiger, Suzuki V-Strom and BMW R1100, 1150GS and 1200GS models.

15th February 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli Named Best Innovator 2004

Pirelli Tyres has been awarded “Best Innovator 2004″ prize, during Italy’s first national innovation day. The aweard, organised by A T Kearney in partnership with Confindustria, is awarded to companies that demonstrate the ability to create value through innovation.

According to the company, Pirelli won the award due to its “excellence in integrating different dimensions of innovation.” Pirelli sees the prize as another way of recognising the company’s technologies – particularly tis Modular Integrated Robotized System or MIRS and its Continuous Compound Mixing system.

“Innovation is a core element of Pirelli culture; the group aims at excellence both in processes and products, not being satisfied by current standards,” Mr Francesco Gori, managing director of Pirelli Tyres Sector commented. “Innovation allows us to create value for customers and companies, which must foster and stimulate creativity and speed not only in research and development activities.”

Pirelli says that its innovation, as a company, has led to products such as the Eufori@, the first Pirelli run-flat tyre which can run at zero-pressure and today equips the Mini and new 1 and 3 BMW Series.

24th November 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

European New Car Registrations in Slight Decline

Figures released by the European automobile manufacturers association (ACEA) show that the number of new car registrations in Europe is in a slight decline. In total 831,805 cars were registered in EU and EFTA countries in August, 1.3 per cent less than the same time last year.

14th September 2004/by Tyrepress Editors