Hankook Tire has expanded its passenger tyre range in the US with the launch of the Kinergy PT, a premium touring all-season tyre. It is the supplier's first tyre made exclusively in the US at the new plant in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Hankook claimed the Kinergy PT was optimised for long-distance travel, safety and driving performance through enhanced traction and uses a specially formulated compound to enhance traction in all conditions and a strong rolling resistance profile to improve fuel economy. The tread design incorporates a high stiffness centre rib and claimed unique circumferential out grooves for optimised water evacuation, providing excellent traction in both wet and dry conditions. The wider footprint will provide a better cornering response and improved handling in freezing temperatures, it added. 

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The tyre will be one of the main types produced in Clarksville, Hankook's first factory in North America.

The new tyre went on sale today (25 September).

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