Hankook -
Hankook manufactures premium high-performance tyres for a wide range of vehicle categories from cars to trucks as well as for motorsport. Much of the development and production takes place in Europe for the European market, including original equipment for Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and VW.
Discover the Hankook Winter i*cept evo² (W320), a premium ultra-high-performance winter tire designed to excel in all weather conditions. Engineered for passenger cars, this tire offers exceptional stability and performance, ensuring a safe and comfortable driving experience during the winter months.
Advanced 3D Sipe Technology
The innovative 3D sipe technology minimizes block movement, providing optimal driving stability. This feature ensures that your vehicle maintains excellent traction and control on both wet and snowy roads, enhancing your safety and confidence behind the wheel.
Exceptional Snow Performance
Equipped with ice pick-shaped traction grooves, the Winter i*cept evo² delivers outstanding grip on snowy surfaces. The strategically arranged sipe angles enhance snow performance, allowing for powerful and reliable driving in challenging winter conditions.
Enhanced Traction and Braking
The zigzag traction grooves improve snow traction and braking performance, ensuring that you can stop safely and efficiently, even on slippery surfaces. This tire is designed to give you peace of mind during harsh winter weather.
Superior Handling and Grip
With a wide shoulder design, this tire offers superior handling and increased grip compared to conventional tires. The broadened shoulder blocks provide enhanced stability and control, making it easier to navigate through sharp turns and curves.
Optimized Block Design
The segmented transverse blocks, divided by half grooves, enhance flexibility and optimize the contact patch during cornering. This design improves handling on wet and snowy roads, ensuring a smooth and responsive driving experience.
Improved Wet Performance
Featuring 30% wider grooves than its predecessor, the Winter i*cept evo² significantly enhances wet performance by efficiently channeling water away from the tire. The aqua slope design offers ultimate wet performance by increasing the cross-sectional area, reducing the risk of hydroplaning.
Robust Tire Construction
The ultra-strong bead core improves uniformity and bead strength, while the reinforced bead filler enhances handling and steering response. The wide steel belt layer ensures optimal tread stiffness, contributing to improved handling and stability.
High-Grip Silica Compound
The high-grip silica compound enhances snow and wet traction while reducing rolling resistance. This advanced compound ensures that the Winter i*cept evo² delivers both outstanding performance and fuel efficiency, making it an excellent choice for winter driving.
Hankook i*cept evo² (W320)
Optimised asymmetric pattern design for driving in all winter conditions
Optimised pattern design helps effectively bite in to the snow and improve the traction performance of the tyres.
Features
Tyre Pattern
Snow-pick traction groove Lateral ice ax shaped grooves have a scratching effect on roads. Powerful snow performance by optimised lateral groove angle.
Zigzag traction groove Improves snow traction and braking performance by increasing the cross point.
3D winter sipe Ensures optimal winter performance by minimising block movement on wet and snow roads.
Ice grip slits Provides cornering performance with sub slits.
Wide shoulder Provides the best handling performance and improves grip by widened shoulder blocks compared to conventional tyres.
Optimised cube block By dividing the lateral block through semi grooves there is increased flexibility and an optimised contact area when cornering. Wet and snow handling performance is also improved.
Wide aqua grooves Improves wet performance through the use of 30% wider grooves compared to existing product.
Aqua slant Provides ultimate performance in wet conditions by increasing cross sectional area.
Tyre Structure
High grip silica compound Improved snow / wet traction and lowered rolling resistance.
Jointless full cover reinforced belt Ideal tread strength.
Wide steel belt layer Ensures optimal tread stiffness and improves handling performance.
Adoption of high-hardness bead filler Improves handling and steering response.
Ultra high strength bead wire Improves uniformity and durability of the bead position.
The Tire Labeling Ordinance specifies the information requirements on fuel efficiency, wet grip and external rolling noise from tires. In addition, reference is made to the winter properties of the product.
The EU 1222/2009 regulation that has been in force since November 1st, 2012 has been revised and will be replaced by regulation EU 2020/740 from May 1st, 2021; From this point on, new requirements apply. The rating classes for fuel efficiency, wet grip and exterior noise have been changed and the layout of the EU label has been adjusted. The manufacturer's product data sheets stored in the EU database can be downloaded via a QR code integrated into the label. Information on snow grip and ice grip is also newly included for tires that meet these criteria.
The following tires are exempt from the regulation: - tires that are designed exclusively for installation on vehicles that were first registered before October 1, 1990 - retreaded tires (until a corresponding extension of EU VO 2020/740 has taken place) - professional off - Road tires - Racing tires - Tires with additional devices to improve traction, eg studded tires - T-type emergency tires - Tires with a permissible speed below 80 km/h - Tires for rims with a nominal diameter ≤ 254 mm or ≥ 635 mm
The criteria and evaluation classes at a glance
fuel efficiency
The fuel consumption depends on the rolling resistance of the tyres, the vehicle itself, the driving conditions and the driving style of the driver. The measured rolling resistance (rolling resistance coefficient) of the tire is divided into classes A (highest efficiency) to E (lowest efficiency).
If a vehicle is completely equipped with class A tires, a consumption reduction of up to 7.5%* is possible compared to class E tyres. In the case of commercial vehicles, it can even be higher. (Source: European Commission Impact Assessment * when measured according to the test methods set out in Regulation (EU) 2020/740)
Please note: Fuel consumption depends to a large extent on your own driving style and can be significantly reduced by driving in an environmentally friendly manner. Tire pressure should be checked regularly to improve fuel efficiency.
wet grip
Wet grip is divided into classes A (shortest braking distance) - E (longest braking distance).
If a car is equipped with class A tires, compared to class E tires, a braking distance of up to 18 m can be reduced when braking from 80 km/h (on a road surface with average grip).* *Source: wdk Economic Association of the German Rubber Industry eV
Please note: Traffic safety depends to a large extent on your own driving style. The stopping distances must always be observed. Tire pressure should be checked regularly to improve wet grip.
External rolling noise
The noise emitted by a tire affects the overall volume of the vehicle and affects not only your own driving comfort, but also the noise pollution of the environment. In the EU tire label, the external rolling noise is divided into 3 classes from A (lowest rolling noise) - C (highest rolling noise), measured in decibels (dB) and compared with the European noise emission limit values for external tire rolling noise.
A The pictogram with the classification "A" indicates that the tire's external rolling noise is more than 3 dB below the EU limit value in force until 2016. B The "B" classification means that the tyre's external rolling noise is up to 3 dB below or equal to the EU limit value in force until 2016. C The classification "C" indicates that the specified limit value is exceeded.
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C
73dB
