New winter tyre generation from Continental: The new ContiWinterContact TS 810 and TS 810 S

摘要

Launched at St. Moritz in Switzerland late in 2003 Continental's winter tyres for 2004/2005 offer a high performance solution for winter driving. In many ways it is a shame that tyre manufacturers cannot take all their consumers through such a presentation and driving experience. For having sampled the performance of winter tyres in circumstances that would have resulted in a great deal of bent metal and frayed tempers on summer tyres - no driver would balk at buying a set of winter tyres again. Twice on a hard packed, snow covered road descending a Swiss hillside we encountered other vehicles ascending the hill as rapidly as we were descending. Even allowing for ABS application of the brakes would surely have sent any summer tyre equipped car careering headlong into the oncoming vehicles. Much to everyone's astonishment the ContiWinterContact equipped cars shuddered to a halt in a controlled fashion with minimal slip and no loss of vehicle control on the part of any of the drivers.