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How do I know what size tyres I need?
17 Apr 2026
When you are looking for tyres, especially online, you will find the best information, advice and deals if you know your tyre size. This is displayed on your current tyres' sidewall, and we explain below how to read this and what it means. All quality tyre retail sites offer the abilty to search for tyres using the size.
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Driverless tyre tests
16 Jan 2019
You’ve heard of driverless cars, now there are driverless tyre tests. Continental commissioned the first driverless tyre test vehicle for a wide range of road surface types at its Ulvade, Texas test track on 19 December 2018.
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Expeditions7 cross glacier on Nokian Hakkapeliitta tyres
16 Jan 2019
Snow is rare in most of Britain at the best of times. This year’s mild winter means it is even more difficult to imagine what it felt like for seven men and their three vehicles to face 5,000 kilometres of ice over a period of 20. Still that’s what Icelandic-American expedition team Expeditions7 went through recently when they drove from the southern coast of Greenland to the land’s northernmost spot and back. One of the team’s special vehicles built by Arctic Trucks was equipped with Nokian Hakkapeliitta 44 tyres. These are tailored what Nokian calls “real winter”. Now that’s an understatement. White-outs with zero visibility made it a unique challenge at times. On the slowest legs of the journey, the vehicles could only manage 10 kilometres per hour and the lowest recorded temperatures were -40 degrees Celsius!
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