BMW picked the Pirelli P Zero Elect tire as original equipment for the BMW i4 M50, the carmaker's first fully-electric car in the high performance division.
Pirelli & Cie SpA will supply its Pirelli P Zero Elect tire as original equipment on the new electric BMW iX SUV. The tire will be available for the xDrive50 and M60 versions of the vehicle.
The Hankook Ventus S1 evo Z will be original equipment on the BMW X3 M and BMW X4 M, in size 255/40ZR21 102Y on the front and size 265/40ZR21 105Y on the rear axle. The tire "has been adapted to the specific requirements" of BMW, according to Hankook officials.
BMWs are far from the best-selling vehicles in the U.S. Halfway through 2016 BMW sales amounted to not quite 2% market share with a little more than 153,000 vehicles sold, according to statistics compiled by Good Car Bad Car. Still, that relatively tiny segment of new car sales is a driver for an entire category of tire technology: run-flat tires.
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