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Test Results: A Valuable Tire Rack Advantage

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Test Results: A Valuable Tire Rack Advantage

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Firestone Chooses a Retro Name for Their
Ultra High Performance Summer Tire
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What do Ford's 2005 Mustang GT, the MINI Cooper S and Volkswagen New Beetle all have in common? They are all modern, retro versions of milestone products. And when it comes to tires, Firestone's Firehawk Wide Oval w/UNI-T is no different.

The Firehawk Wide Oval w/UNI-T is Firestone's Ultra High Performance Summer tire for today's driving enthusiasts in much the same way that the original Firestone Wide Oval, the industry’s first low profile performance tire, helped revolutionize high performance passenger tires in the late 1960s. To find out if Firestone's modern, retro tire will again advance Ultra High Performance, we compared the road manners and handling performance of the Firehawk Wide Oval with the popular AVON Tyres Tech M500 and BFGoodrich's g-Force T/A KDW tires from the Ultra High Performance Summer category.

What We Learned on the Road and on the Track
http://www.tirerack.com/a.jsp?a=AL3&..._wide_oval.jsp

Read More About the Tires in This Test.

AVON Tyres Tech M500
http://www.tirerack.com/a.jsp?a=AL3&...odel=Tech+M500

BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KDW
http://www.tirerack.com/a.jsp?a=AL3&...orce+T%2FA+KDW

Firestone Firehawk Wide Oval
http://www.tirerack.com/a.jsp?a=AL3&...hawk+Wide+Oval


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http://www.tirerack.com/a.jsp?a=AL3&...testSearch.jsp
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