Bridgestone Potenza Re-11 Tire Review


by Sampashi - Date: 2010-05-03 - Word Count: 356 Share This!

From its founding in 1931, Bridgestone Tire has has been an industry forerunner, producing a number of innovative tire technologies. Although each has a distinct purpose and result, they have all been able to make Bridgestone's superb tires even better. With substantial improvements in traction, wet handling, ride comfort, noise reduction and damage resistance, Bridgestone Tire has extended to enhance the driving experience. While the globe's largest tire corporation, Bridgestone Tire will be a name known across the world for continuing excellence in creating and manufacturing tires. Having a solid line-up of tires for cars, trucks, and SUVs, Bridgestone Tire additionally offers specialty tires with off-road and run-flat applications. No matter if you need a safe and long-wearing tire for a household minivan or a set of rugged truck tires to deal with off-road hurdles, Bridgestone Tire provides what you're looking for.

The Potenza RE-11 is an Extreme Performance Summer tire produced for passionate sports car, sports coupe and performance sedan motorists. The Potenza RE-11 is designed to blend traction, handling and driving control with excellent noise and ride comfort. The Potenza RE-11 is tuned for dry and wet conditions, but like all summer tires is not meant to be driven in near-freezing temperatures, via snow or on ice.

The Potenza RE-11 is the first Potenza streets tire to combine Bridgestone's 3D Seamless Stealth technology initially introduced in their Formula 1 and GP2 racing tires. The Potenza RE-11 features a good asymmetric tread pattern that brings together enormous outboard independent shoulder blocks interlocked with a notched circumferential intermediate rib that offers the lateral stiffness required to boost steering reaction and improve dry cornering traction. Inboard, a continuous intermediate rib and notched shoulder rib are separated by wide, straight circumferential grooves that provide water evacuation to resist hydroplaning and enhance wet traction.

The tire's internal structure consists of custom designed asymmetric shape that aids distribute footprint pressure more evenly by preserve the straighter outboard sidewall through "falling down" while helping the greater rounded inboard sidewall resist "falling away" during intense cornering. A couple of wide steel belts reinforced by spirally wound nylon provide durability, uniform ride quality and high-speed capability.


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