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MaxContact MC6
Car
Summer
Sporty
MaxContact MC6
When MAX Performance Counts
Reduced braking distance in wet and dry conditions
Superior sporty handling and direct feedback from the road
- Perfect combination of good mileage and low noise for everyday driving
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Quickfacts
Reduced braking distance in wet and dry conditions
Superior sporty handling and direct feedback from the road
- Perfect combination of good mileage and low noise for everyday driving
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Technical details
Multiple features guarantee the highest performance.
Dedciated areas on MaxContactTM MC6's tread design are responsible for the high performance of the tyre. These features cover all four directional forces that are applied to the tyre tread.
- Stabiliser Bars
Fix and stabilise the outside shoulder blocks and the longtiduinal rib to form one stable unit, for enhanced handling and cornering grip. Depending on the dimension, there are about 50 Stabiliser Bars positioned around the tyre's circumference.
- Asymmetric Rib Geometry
The supporting angles of the rib-shoulders prevent slanting of the ribs under heavy cornering manoeuvres and sharp changes of steering direction, thus ensuring an enhanced cornering response.
- Longitudinal Chamfered Edges
Prevent the rolling-in-effect of the ribs in the lateral direction for maximun contact area to archieve enhanced cornering grip and stability.
- Chevron Grip Elements
Performance designed Chevron Grip Elements allow even pressure distribution during cornering even on the inside tyre of the vehicle resulting in enhanced grip, better wet braking and handling.
- Stable Rib Structure
To achieve faster dry braking and efficient traction for acceleration, these longitudinal ribs are engineered to avoid block distortion by transferring circumferentail forces efficiently to the road.
- Noise Breaker 2.0
Breaks down the noise waves which flow through the grooves to ensure a comfortable low noise ride.
Meets the extreme high grip requirements of the driver.
The special adhesive polymers within the MaxContactTM MC6 compund are specifically designed to accomplish the exterme high grip requirements of the driver.
Continental is a technology leader in compounding. For MC6 we took all levels of traction into account to reach maximum grip under all conditions.
- Mechanical Interlocking
Acts on a mm-scale (millimetre), assures primary contact to the road and interlocaks the tread of the tyre to the road's surface on a mechanical level.
- Hysteresis
Acts on a µm-scale, generated by the deformation of visco-elastic materials on a micro level due to surface roughness or stick / slip movements of the tyre while driving.
- Adhesion
Acts on a nanometre-scale, superior adhesion to the road surface created by molecular forces - based on the 'Van-der-Waals-Forces" - which bonds the polymers to the road surface on a nanometre level.
