Michelin Whether ... from a blowout. Its tire lineup includes self-supporting all-season performance tires, as well as run-flat tires for OEM applications, such as the BMW 3 Series or the Mini ...

Bridgestone is the main supplier of run-flat tires for the BMW 1 series, but Michelin also supplies BMW with its zero-pressure tires for the model. The 1 series goes on sale in Europe in September.

The world of tires is an ever-expanding nexus of increasingly specialized compounds for any situation. There are tires for everyday roads, snow, rain, summer, racing, off-roading and tires that ...

Bridgestone is the main supplier of run-flat tires for the BMW 1 series, but Michelin also supplies BMW with its zero-pressure (ZP) tires for the model. The 1 series goes on sale in September.

A Michelin study released last year found that only 3 percent of drivers worldwide want run-flat tires. U.S. market share is well below 1 percent. BMW AG, General Motors Co., Toyota Motor Sales U ...

But these tires have been available mostly on sports cars, not on the kinds of vehicles most people drive. French tire maker Michelin ... BMW’s strategy of offering self-supporting run-flat ...

Manufacturers such as BMW have been selling ... you can see if the tire is inflated or not, instead of relying on a sensor as in the case with a run-flat. Michelin invented the self-sealing ...

Only the Rolls-Royce Phantom is equipped with Michelin's Pax system in this country. Bridgestone's competing run-flat tire system is standard on the BMW Z8 and Z4 and optional on the BMW 5 and 7 ...

Group Michelin expects run-flat tire sales to surge as car manufacturers start to fit them on higher-volume cars. So far, run-flat tires have been confined mostly to premium or luxury models, such as ...