BMW North America L.L.C. is getting ready to launch its next-generation compact SUV, the X3, and it will ride—as most BMWs and Minis sold today—on run-flat tires. Of all the companies producing cars ...

BMW is getting ready to launch its next-generation compact SUV, the X3, and it will ride--as most BMWs and Minis sold today--on run-flat tires. Of all the companies producing cars today, BWM has ...

MUNICH, Germany -- BMW will make run-flat tires standard on its upcoming 1 series entry-level premium car. This will be the highest-volume car yet equipped with run-flat tires as standard equipment.

NEU-ISENBURG, Germany—German car maker BMW A.G. has selected run-flat versions of Hankook Tire Co. Inc.'s Ventus S1 evo2 premium summer and Winter i*cept winter tires as original equipment fitments on ...

Not to ruin your day or anything, but you should know that there’s a very good chance that you’ll have a flat tire at some point in your life. Even if you drive like a saint and carefully avoid every ...

If you’ve bought a new car in the last several years, there’s an increasing likelihood that when you take a look in the trunk, you’ll no longer find a spare tire. At best in many cases you’ll get an ...

Run-flat tires promise to remove a key travel worry—being stranded roadside. However, the ownership experience can be both expensive and frustrating, as we have heard from owners. A reader recently ...

The world of tires is an ever-expanding nexus of increasingly specialized compounds for any situation. There are tires for everyday roads, snow, rain, summer, racing, off-roading and tires that ...

TOKYO (Oct. 3, 2003) — Bridgestone Corp. has begun supplying run-flat tires to BMW A.G. for installation on its new 5 Series model car family, the Tokyo-based tire maker said. The Potenza RE050 RFT ...

A miserable thing happened last weekend when one of the run-flat tires on our 2011 BMW 750Li was gashed by a pothole during an excursion from Connecticut to New Hampshire: Replacing the tire turned ...

EDITOR WES RAYNAL: I was a decided nonfan of the last generation X3--I thought it was far too unrefined to be a BMW. I do like this 2012 BMW X3 xDrive 28i better. It's not a bad little scooter, though ...

PARIS --Michelin expects run-flat tire sales to surge as car manufacturers start to fit them on higher-volume cars. So far, run-flat tires have been mostly confined to premium or luxury models, such ...