Tire speed ratings basically tell you how fast you can go before your tires turn into shrapnel. Your everyday grocery-getters can get away with, say, inexpensive S-rated tires that will hold together ...

The speed ratings of tires are more than just about the maximum allowable speed that the rubber can carry a load before failing, exploding, and causing a massive accident. It's one of the many numbers ...

The Continental ExremeContact Sport 02 is an ultra high performance summer tires and is not designed for cold, wintry weather. It has no treadwear warranty, though the tested projected mileage is ...

The Sumitomo HTR Z5 comes in a large span of tire sizes suited for many performance cars. This tire has an asymmetric tread pattern. The Sumitomo HTR Z5 is part of the Tire test program at Consumer ...

As a car owner, you probably already know that tires come with a size designation. It's a standardized code that helps you identify what exact tires will fit your vehicle perfectly. But the size ...

It turns out Y-rated tires hold up to a lot more speed than you'd expect, but 800+ mph is a bit much for any rubber. Russian YouTube channel Garage 54 figured it’d find out, which it did by building a ...

The NTSB’s investigation of the Learjet 60 accident focused on the high-speed failures of the main landing gear tires. Shown here is the right outboard main landing gear tire’s outboard sidewall ...