Throw One’s Weight Around
Last year Vredestein unveiled the newest big gun in its UHP arsenal, the Ultrac Sessanta. Designed and marketed as a cut above the existing Ultrac range, the new tyre was the Dutch-Russian tyremaker’s response to the ever growing high performance vehicle segment, and with a low profile wide-tread design, Y speed rating and styling by Italy’s Giugiaro Design, the Ultrac Sessanta fitted comfortably into the upper end of Vredestein’s range. However this series of performance car tyres only partially catered for the performance market, and those wishing to drive vehicles the size of small trucks at incredible speeds found themselves without a suitable Ultrac Sessanta offering.
As of March 2007 all this would change: Enter the Ultrac SUV Sessanta, Vredestein’s UHP tyre for 4×4 sport utility vehicles. Based upon the Ultrac Sessanta, this latest tyre takes into account the unique qualities possessed by vehicles that are both fast and very heavy. The Audi Q7, for example – a vehicle Vredestein expressly states the Ultrac SUV Sessanta is ideally suited to – in its 4.2 litre petrol-engine guise has a top speed of close to 250km/h combined with a kerb weight of two and a quarter tonnes. So it goes without saying that the demands these vehicles place upon a tyre when cornering and stopping are far above the norm.