24 Августа 2022

Continental factory approved for Mercedes C43

Mercedes-AMG is continuing to fit premium Continental tires as original equipment. Factory-approved for the C43, the high-performance 18″ SportContact 7 is designed for speeds of up to 300 km/h and comes with the XL marking for enhanced load capacity. The tires carry the sidewall marking MO1, which appears on all the tires developed specially for AMG. Continental developed this UUHP (Ultra Ultra High Performance) tire specially for vehicles with sporty attributes as well as for super sports cars.

Thanks to its special rubber compound, the SportContact 7 offers optimum road grip. Compared with its predecessor, the SportContact 6, mileage on the racetrack is increased by 10 percent, wet braking distances are reduced by 8 percent, dry braking distances are reduced by 6 percent and the service life is extended by 17 percent. The SportContact 7 features an adaptive tread design, which is capable of adjusting to wet or dry road surfaces. This ensures precision handling and maximum safety – also at high speeds. This is made possible by the innovative tread design. When the vehicle is driving straight ahead, the tire’s “footprint” ends at the point of highest water drainage in the tread, ensuring outstanding grip during braking, acceleration and cornering on wet roads. When the vehicle corners on dry asphalt, the “footprint” shifts to the outer shoulder, which is designed to transmit extremely high forces to ensure stable handling. New “locking elements” in the outer shoulder further enhance stability because they enable only limited movement of the tread and so ensure superior ride stability.

This year, the SportContact 7 received two design awards: the Red Dot award for product design and the iF Product Design Award.