Pirelli SpA has broadened its premium winter tire portfolio with the addition of the Winter Sottozero 3.
Revealed to more than 400 European tire dealers during a launch program in Austria last month, the new Winter Sottozero 3 is a UHP tire developed for “premium segment cars with a medium to high engine capacity, designed to enhance the sporting characteristics of the cars to which it is fitted.”
The tire features 3D grooves for snow-on-snow grip, an enlarged contact patch for grip on all surfaces, and a tread compound with “specialized polymers that improve the mechanical, thermal and dynamic properties of the rubber,” Pirelli said.
Available worldwide for the 2013-14 winter season, the Winter Sottozero 3 will comes in a range of 16- to 21-inch wheel diameter sizes, including run-flat sizes.
