— PremiumContact 6

The new PremiumContact 6 will gradually replace its successful predecessors, the ContiPremiumContact 5 and ContiSportContact 5.

With the PremiumContact 6, Continental is targeting to a market segment defined as “passenger and light truck tires with a strong focus on safety, optimized handling and high ride quality – for mid-range models and above.”

In the new PremiumContact 6, the tire manufacturer Continental has set out to fulfill the ever-increasing requirements for ride quality, precise steering response, maximum safety and environmental properties in a single product. To this end, the tire development engineers have come up with new compounds, an innovative tread pattern that borrows from SportContact 6 tire, and a supple tire geometry that offers high ride quality.

Like its predecessors, the ContiSportContact 5 and ContiPremiumContact 5, the new PremiumContact 6 offers top-class braking performance, particularly on wet roads. The compounding experts at Continental have come up with solutions that enable substantial progress in other tire parameters without having to surrender the tire’s high safety reserves. The innovations include a new synthetic amorphous silica compound for short braking distances on wet roads across all vehicle segments. On the EU Tire Label, the new PremiumContact 6 achieves the top “A” rating for wet grip.

Continental’s chemists and engineers have also broken new ground to attain the specified marked improvement in mileage, rolling resistance and comfort. The solution was to combine an abrasion-resistant polymer compound with a supple tread pattern. As a result, the new PremiumContact 6 presents a 15 percent improvement in mileage compared to its predecessor, and at the same time interior and exterior tire/road noise is down by as much as ten percent.

The available assortment includes tires for models from mid-range cars to SUVs.