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Toyo Tires® Introduces the New Versado LX™ Luxury Touring Tire
CYPRESS, CALIFORNIA -- Toyo Tires introduces a new tire for the luxury car market, the Versado LX. The LX provides a smooth, comfortable and quiet ride, while delivering the performance, quality and all-season capabilities expected from Toyo. The first in a new line of premium luxury touring tires for Toyo; this is the ultimate tire for the most discriminating drivers.
The Versado LX is the latest in Toyo’s ongoing product innovation. It features four circumferential grooves incorporating Toyo’s new Silent Wall™ design, which uses a series of densely packed serrations along the wall of the grooves. Traditional smooth wall grooves produce noise, known as “pipe resonance” which is a result of air rushing through the channels while they are compressed against the road surface. Additional features that reduce tire noise include variable pitch tread blocks and a computer optimized tread pattern arrangement. Together, these features reduce noise in the range of 500Hz, a frequency that is particularly audible and annoying to the human ear. As tires begin to wear, they also produce additional noise. Toyo’s multi-wave sipes help to reduce irregular wear, a condition known to produce noise as miles are accumulated.
In addition to a reduction in overall noise, the Versado LX also features a non-directional, asymmetric tread with large rigid tread blocks on the outer shoulder to improve cornering. The multi-wave sipes also help to decrease tread block movement under acceleration, cornering and braking conditions. This keeps the tread in contact with the road better on both wet and dry surfaces, resulting in improved overall handling. Increased performance on both wet surfaces and in light snow is obtained by increasing sipe density on inner tread blocks, resulting in an “edge effect”. Essentially, more edges help to “bite” into the road surface in all adverse driving conditions.
A smooth ride is produced by the casing construction of the Versado LX, demonstrating better impact absorption for less harshness in ride comfort testing. The non-directional, asymmetric tread also provides the ability to cross-rotate tires to help combat irregular wear and increase longevity.
A direct OE replacement, the new Versado LX is initially being offered in forty-three new part numbers, fitting 15- to 18-inch rim sizes in 70- to 45-Series. Widths range from 195- to 255-mm to fit cars such as Audi A8, BMW 7 Series, Cadillac DTS and STS, Chrysler 300, Infiniti Q45, Lexus LS430, Lincoln Towncar, Mercedes Benz, Volvo and other refined vehicles.
To learn more about the new and luxurious Versado LX from Toyo, log on to toyo.com. Toyo manufactures and distributes a complete line of high performance and original equipment replacement tires for passenger car, light truck, commercial truck, bus, off-road and construction applications.
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