Goodyear UltraGrip 8: The Ultimate Winter Tire for Enhanced Safety and Performance

Exceptional Braking on Snow

Experience unparalleled braking performance with the Goodyear UltraGrip 8, designed to provide shorter stopping distances when it matters most. Thanks to Goodyear's innovative 3D-BIS Technology®, the UltraGrip 8 interlocks its tread blocks, resulting in a braking distance on snow that is one meter shorter compared to the average performance of leading competitor winter tires.

Superior Traction and Handling

The UltraGrip 8 ensures reliable grip in cold weather conditions. Its specialized winter tread compound offers high traction at low temperatures, making it a durable choice for prolonged use. The 3D BIS Technology® enhances handling in unpredictable winter weather, from wet and dry roads to icy, snowy, and slushy conditions. The advanced V-tread pattern maintains excellent handling even as the tire wears down.

Outstanding Aquaplaning Resistance

Reduce the risk of aquaplaning on slushy or wet roads with the UltraGrip 8. Its V-groove tread design efficiently channels water away and provides excellent grip on snow, ensuring optimal control in wet and thawing conditions. Tests have shown that the UltraGrip 8 offers 16% better resistance to lateral aquaplaning on winding roads compared to competitor tires. The new generation V-TRED tread design further enhances performance in slush and aquaplaning situations.

Advanced Tread Features

The UltraGrip 8's 3D sipes span the entire tread width and depth, maintaining a consistently high level of grip on snow, ice, and wet roads while ensuring stable driving on dry surfaces. The tire's directional V-TRED pattern of the latest generation effectively disperses water and slush, with numerous biting edges for superior grip on snow and slush. Unlike conventional sipes that destabilize the tread, the 3D sipes lock into a stable tread block, preserving their effectiveness throughout the tire's life.

Large Contact Area for Enhanced Grip

A large contact area reduces specific ground pressure, minimizing the formation of water films on ice. This extensive contact surface accommodates numerous sipes, providing high grip levels on wet and icy surfaces. The silica tread compound improves the bonding of the filler to the rubber polymer, ensuring excellent wet grip, high mileage, and low rolling resistance.

Reduced Tire Noise and Wear Indicators

The variable pitch design, with different shoulder block lengths in the circumferential direction, distributes block impact noise over a broader frequency spectrum, reducing peak frequencies and resulting in low tire noise. The winter wear indicator, with ridges at the base of the tread, allows for easy monitoring of aquaplaning and winter performance at a remaining tread depth of 4mm. The snowflake symbol certifies that the tire has passed a standardized snow test, guaranteeing particularly safe driving behavior on snow and ice.

Goodyear UltraGrip 8

The winter tyre that delivers outstanding snow traction

The UltraGrip 8 is the winter tyre that that delivers braking performance and grip when it matters most.

Winter is a challenging time for most drivers: plummeting temperatures and road conditions change suddenly – from snow to slush, from wet to ice, from dry to wet. Cold Weather tyres, combined with appropriate driving skills and behaviour during these unpr. The winter tire that delivers outstanding snow traction.

• Shorter braking distances on snow
• Extra grip on winter roads
• Improved handling
• High aquaplaning resistance

Shorter braking distances on snow. Benefit from shorter braking distances when it matters most, thanks to Goodyear’s 3D-BIS Technology®. This interlocking block system helps deliver braking distances on snow that are one meter shorter than the average performance of competitors’ winter tyres.*

Extra grip on winter roads. Enjoy confident grip in all cold-weather conditions. The winter tread compound maintains high grip levels at temperatures below 7 °C. The compound is long-wearing to give you extra mileage from your winter tyres.

Improved handling. Goodyear’s 3D BIS Technology® improves handling in unpredictable winter weather – from wet and dry roads, to ice, snow and slush. The optimized tyre shape puts more rubber in contact with the road, increasing control in slippery conditions. The UltraGrip 8 maintains handling performance even as the tire wears, thanks to a next generation V-tread design.

High aquaplaning resistance. The UltraGrip 8 reduces the risk of aquaplaning on slushy or wet roads. A double V-groove – one groove for evacuating water and one for gripping snow – ensures good control in wet and thawing conditions. When tested against competitors' tires, the UltraGrip 8 offered 16% better resistance to aquaplaning on curved roads.**

Feature:

• First directional tyre using 3D-BIS (Block Interlocking System) TechnologyTM throughout the entire tread pattern
• Next generation winter tread compound
• Higher net contact area
• Next generation V-tread design

Benefits:

• More grip and shorter braking distance on snow and ice
• Improved handling and braking on dry and wet roads
• Excellent traction and handling on snow and ice
• Outstanding grip on wet and dry

Optimised mileage and improved fuel efficiency TUV Claims TÜV SÜD claims 55% shorter braking distance on snow* 41% more lateral grip on snow* 6% more resistance to aquaplaning on curved roads** *Compared to a Goodyear summer tyre. Braking distance on snow from 50 km/h to 5 km/h, measured by TÜV SÜD Automotive.