I just saw this... it looks interesting...

These tires are airless and are scheduled to be out on the market very soon.

The bad news for law enforcement is that spike strips will not work on these tires.

This is what great R&D will do, and just think of the impact on existing technology:
A.) no more air valves...
B.) no more air compressors at gas stations....
C.) no more repair kits...
D.) no more flats...



SCAN DOWN AND SEE.

These are actual pictures taken in the South Carolina plant of Michelin.

 

WTLY

 

you miss the "S" behind year

 

nevermind them ^ ^

Hmm, I often feel compelled to adjust the tires’ pressure almost as much as the Mrs. plays with the climate control. up down up down up down… Will the wonder of pneumatics soon be relegated solely to my power tools??

-OT-
Harry, I wish your brakes were in my future!

 

just imagine the ride comfort on a set of those...

 

all I see are X's....

 

its an interesting concept, non the less i dont know if it will be in the price range for many or a preference if u look at the ride comfort as MJ says says.

p.s.
the brakes were a grate addition to my car, i gave up a lot of different mods to do the brakes upgrade. but it was well worth it in my opinion. thx.

 

Harry I can't see anything in your post. Post the URLs of your images?

 

i posted the pic again.

 

I've seen these before. They are not very attractive. I wonder how the ride is with these on. Are they lighter?

 

Those are ugly. I prefer the old style tires

 

really not sure how i would feel about running around with a 12 inch rim and think i'm BALLIN, then again, never catching a flat is attractive with the way my car sits. but yet and still, that is an UGLY *** wheel/rim combo.

 

they are just showing the wheel with no side wall is why it look like that... but i'm sure when it come out in production it will have a side wall and will look like the regular wheels.

 

so ugly....i would never get these.

 

like he said, the ones in the photos are prototypes with no sidewalls so you can see their guts (otherwise you'd be looking at an ordinary tire saying "I don't get it?!?")
I'd buy them in a heartbeat; especially since I just replaced two (more) wheels and tires on the wife's C320. she's a pothole magnet!

 

welcome to last year...

 

One of the most important questions is the tire's performance characteristics. It looks like it deforms pretty hard under load (see front left tire on the turn), though it does give it more surface contact with the road, I wonder if the shear stress will offset that, or just cause other problems.

 

I can't see myself getting these tires,because I would be too tempted to rig a playing card in the "spokes".

 

they also look expensive -__-

 

wonder how their real-life performance would be

 

Saw those pictures and a video of them in action over a year ago.

Don't worry guys, nothing changes overnight.