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New Sava eskimo hp: excellent performance in difficult winter conditions.
Kranj, Slovenia, March 18, 2010 – Sava, one of Central Europe’s leading tire manufacturers, is proud to introduce the new Sava eskimo hp – a new high-performance winter tire that offers excellent handling performance in difficult winter conditions as well as good mileage levels to the cost-conscious passenger car driver.
Certified winter tire.
The new Sava eskimo hp, which is available in a wide range of sizes fitting most passenger car models, features an optimized directional winter tread design and a full silica compound. The Sava eskimo hp is branded with a snowflake symbol on the tire's sidewall, which certifies that it meets the stringent required performance levels of winter testing.
“The new Sava eskimo hp offers excellent performance in a wide variety of winter weather conditions and has thus been awarded the ‘snowflake symbol’, which certifies it as a true winter tire”,
said Alain Klepper, Brand Director for the Sava brand in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Great snow traction and handling
The new Sava eskimo hp tire features a sharp directional winter tread design that offers optimised tread stiffness distribution through FEA (Finite Element Analysis) tools. With its multi-radius cavity design and interlocking blades, the new Sava eskimo offers excellent performance in snowy conditions: great snow traction and handling.
Great wet braking performance.
The Sava eskimo hp tire also offers drivers very good wet braking performance. With its full silica compound technology and optimised tread design, it significantly enhances wet braking performance.
High performance handling
The Sava eskimo hp features a high performance tire construction and a monopoly carcass that enable it to deliver good high performance handling, even in winter.
Good mileage levels
Through the combination of a full silica tread compound, multi radius cavity shape and optimised tread design stiffness, the Sava eskimo hp also delivers good mileage levels.
Wide Range of sizes
The Sava eskimo hp is available in a wide range of sizes:
TireSize / L/S/XL195/50R15 / 82H
195/55R15 / 85H
195/55R16 / 87H
195/60R15 / 88H
195/65R15 / 91H
205/50R17 / 93V XL
205/55R16 / 91H
205/55R16 / 94V XL
205/60R16 / 96H
205/65R15 / 94H
215/45R17 / 91V XL
215/50R17 / 95V XL
215/55R16 / 93H
215/55R17 / 98V XL
215/60R16 / 99H XL
215/65R15 / 96H
215/65R16 / 98H
225/40R18 / 92V XL
225/45R17 / 91H
225/45R17 / 94V XL
225/50R17 / 98V
225/55R16 / 95H
225/55R17 / 101V XL
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About Sava Tires
Sava Tires, based in Slovenia, is southeast Europe’s leading tire manufacturer with more than 85 years of expertise in the tire and rubber industry. Sava Tires employs more than 1.400 people and sells mainly passenger car, light truck and truck tires.
Sava is an integral part of the Goodyear Dunlop group and exports its products throughout Europe and around the globe.
Sava is well known for reliable and long-lasting, low-cost quality tires.
For more information on Sava Tires, visit www.sava-tires.com.
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