B14 - Wednesday, June 1, 1983 - North Shore News There are three things you can not criticize about a man, his sense of humour, his choice of women and his driving. Driving _ style, although it can be measured sujectively, has many ob- jective qualities but whatever the result, it effects hundreds of people daily. There are several ex- cellent driving schools and a few catering to high per- formance driving and the choice of direction is the individual’s choice. Regardless of your abilities, you can increase the en- joyment spent behind the wheel by matching tire choice to your driving style. North America’s love affair with the automobile is not dead! There are varying degrees of new performance cars from the domestic Citation X-11 to the exotic Maserati Quatroposte. Each caters to a driver’s per- formance demands and pocketbook. To this end, tire selection is critical. Many of the more moderate of the new breed ‘will perform very well on lower profile 60 or 70 radial tires. BFGoodrich pioneered high performance _ street- legal radial tires and today’s High Tech research and development help maintain leadership in the _ per- formance market. Excellent dry pavement adhesion is now more necessary than ever because of the bettrer handling cars available. Good wet traction is an essential safety factor built into the tire through tread design. The 60 and 70 Series tires offer excellent value to the buyer who enjoys spirited driving on occasion and demands some economy in regards to cost. The tire also has to have the right “look” - wide, square, squat and purposeful with white wail stripe, raised white letters or black wall. The driver who demands the best for his car will change tires, wheels and cven make Now you know A Molotov cocktail is a homemade bomb, consisting of a bottle filled with gaso- line or an alcohol mixture. and usually a rag wick. 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Detroit, Japan and Germany all have their versions of the high tech, high performance cars. Buyers demand the ultimate in performance, comfort and safety from these vehicles. The critical element to be matched to the capabilities of these fantastic auto- mobiles is tires. Some potential buyers of tires for these cars are con- fused by the proliferation of numbers associated with high performance tires. Aspect ratios of 50, 55 or 60 are utilized along’ with widths ranging from 195 to 265 on 15 or 16 inch wheels. To the uninitiated, a 265/50VR 16 sounds like part number for a home com- puter. But to the true auto- mobile enthusiast, 265/50VR16 spells HIGH PERFORMANCE. With a higher degree of handling capabilites from the new breed of cars, the tires have to be high tech to allow the cars to “show their stuff.” Take the example given, 265/50VR16 and break the components down one by one to discover its capabilities and your, as a driver, needs. The 265 is the width of the tire measured in millimetres. 50 is the aspect ratio: the percentage of tire width over sidewall height. “V" is a speed rating. There are three commonly used: “SS”, “H” and “V". This sigmfies the speed the trre can. safely sustain. “S” tires are rated at 180 km/h, “H” at 200 km/h and the highest and hardest to attain for a manufacturer “V", which is rated at 210 km/h. The “R” stands for radial, the type of con- struction used in the tire The last number signifies the 296 Pemberton Ave., N.V, 985-9155 diameter of the wheel necessary to fit the tire, in this case it is 16 inches. Discerning drivers of Porsches, Corvettes, Firebirds and _ Ferraris typically use a tire such as the example to set their cars apart even farther. They offer a very wide tire “footprint” to give maximum steering response and handling for the driver and an aggressive tread pattern to produce good drainage in wet conditions to prevent hydroplaning. True _per- formance enthusiasts look to T/A High Tech Radials to Satisfy their tire/per- formance demands, the appearance they want and sometimes their driving egos. As Honda, Toyota, Datsun and many North American manufacturers are producing automobiles verging on the ultra high performance capabilites of the exotics, tires incor- porating the same technology are required. “At BFG, we produced the Introducing. . the NEW GENERATION of EIONIDA. LAWNMOWERS 19” Push Mower S469 *399° CAST DECK 21” Push Mower 499 *459° STEEL DECK ‘ultimate’ in 1982, the Comp T/A, the street radial tire that won at LeMans, and now we are extending that line to include [3 and 14 inch tires with 60 and 70 aspect ratios. These are well suited to today’s smaller high tech performance automobile,” states Thomas J. Ensch, BFG Canada’s Vice- President, Marketing. The enthusiast demands a great deal from a tire. The new cars are capable of per- formance unheard of only a few years ago. 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