remltr

Definitely not going to improve your street cred. But it will take someone trying to slash your tires a little bit longer to get the job done.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a2...ss-tire-uptis/

JeffinBC

Interesting. Unless I am missing something, I can't seem them working very well on any surface except paved roads. Imagine all the mud/rocks/etc that could get jammed into them and throw off the balance.

Martimus

I've always been a Michelin fan. Three of my four current vehicles have Michelin rubber on them. That said I'm not quite sold on this design. I want to see, hear, and experience driving on them before I make a decision one way or another.

I might consider putting a set on my Mustang if they're proven to be resilient and reliable. For my truck, however, I think I'll stick to more traditional AT-style tires.

FordGate

Still another 5 years until you can get these on regular passenger cars and I would bet you can't get them then either. They've had these in concept for as long as I remember.

Flamingtaco

Hell no.

You can't adjust pressure, they have a higher rolling resistance, they are stiffer than pneumatic tires, and they have heat buildup issues. If you tow or haul, airless tires are not ready for prime time.

There is a trade off between wall height and cushion, and airless tires need a lot of wall height to get reasonable cushion. We certainly do not need to entertain losing rotor diameter to get comfortable airless tires on the 150.

Wrenchbender

Have you ever had a set on your truck to compare them to I and many others have these on our trucks I have LTX A/T 2 275 65R18
They are a Great tire in all circumstance's

ghunt81

I would have to imagine they can't actually produce these with open sidewalls like that...unless it's a summer only tire, in winter it would get packed up with ice and snow.

68injunhed

You don't have the tires referenced in the OP on your truck, since they aren't out yet. He's not ripping on Michelin tires in general.

Napalm

The infamous tweel.

They've been on that for some 15 years or more now. Interesting idea - fixes a few issues - creates one other (tire price will be very high I suspect)

Incidentlaly either Polaris or some other ATV company offers these now on their ATVs and reports I've seen say the work very very well off road. I like the idea more for off road than I do on road.

sucks to be miles in woods and have a flat. while on a few hundreds of lb ATV with other crap on it. tire goo only does so much.

mikeinatlanta

Seems these are different than past attempts in that they don't have the heat issue due to carrying load via tension to the top rather than compression at the bottom. Very interesting. Regardless, people will buy just as soon as real testing shows that they are better in a way that someone wants.

What's a "street cred"?