...New Michelins don't need air!!

[Petrograde]

Check this out

http://www.michelinman.com/images/difference/releases/tweel_01102004A.jpg

http://www.michelinman.com/difference/releases/pressrelease01102005a.html

Crazy shisse huh? Would you buy them?

[CRUZTAKER]

I think they're gonna have to work hard on the 'Visually Pleasing' aspect for this creation to take off.
:puke:

[hdwrench]

tire and wheel combination it says... :down:

[Rider90]

This can't be new, I've seen this before. Someplace, somewhere, maybe not in this world, but I've seen that picture :eek:

[twolow]

This can't be new, I've seen this before. Someplace, somewhere, maybe not in this world, but I've seen that picture :eek:

Yeah, I've seen them plenty of time. Paw was always repairing them on Little House on the Prairie.

[BruteForce]

Yeah, I've seen them plenty of time. Paw was always repairing them on Little House on the Prairie.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

you're a bad man! :(

[RR|Suki]

I saw that a while back too... I think that they might be cut away like that for show, I don't think they would market them that way... would they...

[Hotrauder]

Saw them awhile back in Autoweek as a hot new concept that Michelin is working on. Pass. Dennis:beer:

[O's Fan Rich]

I declare this a
REPOST!!!!
But it's worth it for the Little House reference alone!!!!!:beer:

[Petrograde]

I declare this a
REPOST!!!!
But it's worth it for the Little House reference alone!!!!!:beer:

really? I even did a search on 'Michelin' before posting this. :help:

[TripleTransAm]

Freaking ugliest thing I've seen in a while. BUT... the technology is interesting and might even find itself being applied to Motorsports one day. Imagine a 'slick' that could change characteristics on the fly... wrinkle itself into a contact patch a half-block long during high torque application (like, a hard launch) and then straighten itself out into a rigid perfect circle at higher speeds (reducing the ugly wobble that many modern day slicks produce at the far end of the track under speed).

And ricers could put playing cards in the spokes and find yet another source of annoying non-automotive noise to generate!

[O's Fan Rich]

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/forums/showthread.php?t=18228

And my original....
http://mercurymarauder.net/forums/showthread.php?t=16604

Sorry...... still worth the Little house post!!

[Warpath]

I saw that a while back too... I think that they might be cut away like that for show, I don't think they would market them that way... would they...

I read a few articles about the tweel (what a stupid name). There is one version which has no wheel at all. So, you basically bolt the tire directly to the hub/lugs. Interesting stuff. But, I don't see that it can be personalized like today's wheels. So, I don't see them gaining popularity anytime soon except for function only people like racers.

[bigjon]

http://www.michelinman.com/images/promo/2005_tweel_gallery/tweel_006.JPG
looks stupid

http://www.michelinman.com/images/promo/2005_tweel_gallery/tweel_010.JPG
looks kinda cool

[Ross]

It would be OK if they put an outer rubber covering over it so that it looked like a "real" tire.

[ctrcbob]

OK, here is something that you can get today.

Check out the Honda Odyssey Touring, top of the line van. It comes standard with Michelin PAX Run Flat Tires, on a special 460mm (18.11inch) wheel. (check out the tire on the Michelin website).

Friend of mine had a new Odyssey Touring but traded it for a Honda Freelander Truck when he found out that his dealer could not change the tires if he had trouble, nobody in the area could work on those tires and special wheels, and no matter what Michelin says, there are only about five places in the entire country that have the equipment to remove and mound these special tires. Also, note the wheel size. Note something you see every day. Remindes me of when Ford started to use strange metric sizes about 25 or 30 years ago, but went back to standard sizes.