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From left: Walter Guan, Customer Engineering Support; Duy Pham, Marketing Manager, Michelin Malaysia; and Muhammad Arya Subrata, Commercial Director B2B, Michelin Malaysia with the Michelin Pilot Sport 4 SUV tyre.
Michelin recently unveiled the Michelin Pilot 4 SUV for high performance, premium Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV). The Pilot Sport 4 SUV is developed for ‘ex- cellent longevity, remarkable braking performance, dynamic handling and a comfortable driving experience’.
Managing Director of Michelin Malaysia, Singapore, Indo- nesia and Brunei, Pascal Nouvellon, said: “The Michelin Pi- lot Sport 4 SUV completes our well-established Pilot Sport family with the latest motor sport technology and intelligent enhancements to provide unlimited driving pleasure in total safety. The new tyre features an improved tread pattern and a new tyre compound for better grip and wet braking – staying true to the Michelin Pilot Sport 4 SUV tagline, ‘Out there, you
Developed with a new compound that incorporates innova- tive functional elastomers and thin silica, Michelin said the against other premium tyre brands. It took up to 5.06 seconds faster to complete the 1,050 metres track than its competi- recorded distance of up to 2.7 metres shorter than competi- tors. On wet roads, it braked up to 4.9 metres shorter when
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