Testing two new tires from Bridgestone that are aimed at being the best winter solution for sports cars and luxury SUVs.

Tire manufacturers have done an amazing job at using modern rubber compounds and computer tread designs that give stud ...

Long-Term Testing of Bridgestone's All-Weather Tire As the garage door rises from the floor revealing just how much sn ...

The Blizzak 6 is a winter performance tire designed especially for sports cars, sporty coupes, performance sedans and CUVs.

But differences between our half-tread and full-tread tires were striking: Winter grip slips. Deep grooves and an array of small slits, called "sipes," help most new tires bite into snow.

This saves weight and reduces rolling resistance, but when it does roll around to make contact with the road, the tire’s footprint is flat and still wear evenly. So just what are sipes?

These tires usually have many grooves and sipes (which are small slits in the tread) that help them deal with a variety of conditions, such as rain and snow. They tend to last longer than other ...

In addition, their tread blocks have sharp edges and thousands of sipes, or tiny cuts, to grab and hold the snow—snow sticks to itself to improve traction. Snow tires, manufactured in standard ...

Our buying guide will help you find the best all-terrain tires from the top brands for off-roading, highway driving, and all ...

According to Bridgestone, the new tire uses a blend of high-density sipes and smaller zig-zag sipes that help bite into snow and ice. The company says that the directional tread pattern helps ...

We start our long-term test in the worst conditions imaginable. Over the past few years, our northern editors have tested tires from all the major brands, but it’s been quite a while since we ...

The tire's siping, groove design,and hydrophilic compound have added improvements regarding snow acceleration (up 6%), snow handing (up 7%), and snow braking (up 9%) in addition to wet handing (up 7%) ...