SEOUL, South Korea—Nexen Tire Corp. is establishing a new testing center—to be located at the UTAC proving ground in Ivalo, Finland—dedicated to winter tire performance testing and research and ...

IVALO, Finland — Nexen Tire Corp. is establishing a dedicated winter testing center in Ivalo, located in Lapland about 180 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The company said the testing center, to be ...

Since picking up his first set of MicroMachine toy cars as a toddler, Chris knew he had a passion for automobiles embedded in his soul. It wasn't until he started flipping through car magazines a ...

AKRON—Experts from the testing and compliance firm Smithers have published a paper on tire performance in the snow using regression analysis, or a form of virtual modeling. The accomplishment in ...

For drivers who face real winter weather but do not want the hassle of swapping to dedicated snow tires, the latest testing from Consumer Reports points to a small group of all-season and all-weather ...

A firsthand look at how X Line Grip D tires perform on snow, ice, and mountain grades, from a working fleet operator’s ...

We’ve just spent a week of winter testing with the Kumho Majesty 9 Solus TA91, and have come away very impressed with this ...

The newsroom discussion started simple enough: Is the industry's three-peak mountain snowflake (3PMS) symbol reliable? The 3PMS symbol — a snowflake inside of a mountain — came about in 1999 as a way ...

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It would be great, at least in theory, to swap your summer tires for a set of dedicated winter tires every time the temperatures drop and then swap them back when things warm up. That's how you get ...