Sumitomo HTR Tires

Sumitomo Rubber Industries can trace its roots all the way back to 1909 in Japan; today, Sumitomo makes a wide range of rubber products as well as tires, including tennis balls, golf balls, industrial rubber products, and sporting goods. With their HTR tire family, Sumitomo meets the needs of drivers of sporty sedans, coupes, and crossovers, with tires that are designed around the power, torque, weight, center of gravity, handling, and overall driving dynamics of today’s vehicles. Packed with innovations and quality, the Sumitomo HTR tire family is in it to win with versatile performance and outstanding value. Let’s get a closer look at what the Sumitomo HTR tire family is all about:

Sumitomo HTR Z54

Get ultra-high-performance (UHP) levels of cornering ability, steering response, braking, and road manners in an affordable package with the Sumitomo HTR Z5. The HTR Z5 features a redesigned contact patch that puts more rubber on the road for improved braking and control as well as even wear, and a continuous center rib gives the HTR Z5 great straight-line stability and quick, nimble steering response.

Wide grooves resist hydroplaning by evacuating water from the tire’s contact patch, and the specialized next-gen tread compound helps to ensure wet-weather traction as well as great wear properties. Internal design details of the HTR Z5 include a 2-ply polyester casing with twin steel belts, with a full-width spiral-wrap nylon reinforcement ply, and a high-modulus bead insert that helps reinforce the sidewall for sharp handling.

NOTE: the tread compound of the HTR Z5 is softer and more pliable for great road holding and traction, but will stiffen and lose grip on colder days. Tires like the HTR Z5 should not be used if temperatures are below 40-45 degrees Fahrenheit.

Sumitomo HTR A/S P03

Packed with innovations and advanced features, the Sumitomo HTR A/S P03 is a tire that’s designed to give you everything you expect from a UHP tire without compromising on year-round performance. The asymmetric all-season tread of the HTR A/S P03 is designed with “fins” in the grooves that enhance the removal of water from the contact patch to resist hydroplaning, and Sumitomo’s innovative “Miura-Ori” sipe design in the outboard rib helps to boost cornering ability and traction on curves and corners. The HTR A/S P03 features a polyester casing with twin steel belts and a nylon cap ply layer, with Sumitomo’s silica-rich tread compound delivering long wear and improved traction on wet roads. Sumitomo covers the HTR A/S P03 with a 65,000 mile limited manufacturer’s tread life warranty.

Sumitomo HTR Enhance LX2

The HTR Enhance LX2 from Sumitomo is an all-season Grand Touring tire that’s centered around low noise and refined ride quality along with excellent wear properties. The HTR Enhance LX2’s outer shoulder blocks are designed for great cornering and stability at highway speed as well as integral lateral grooves for wet traction and low noise. Its advanced tread compound delivers phenomenal tread life; the HTR Enhance LX2 is covered by a best-in-class limited manufacturer’s tread life warranty of 90,000 miles for T-rated tires, 75,000 miles for H- and V-rated tires, and 55,000 miles for tires with the W speed rating.

Innovative “bending sipes” help to reinforce the tire’s center rib for straight-line road manners and crisp steering response. In wet or wintry weather, the HTR Enhance LX2’s pattern of zigzag sipes boosts tread block stability, reduces irregular wear, and multiplies traction with hundreds of thin biting edges. With its phenomenal tread life coverage, capable handling, and luxurious ride quality, the HTR Enhance LX2 is a great value for high-end SUVs and sedans or everyday minivans and crossovers.

Sumitomo HTR Enhance CX2

Designed as a highway-terrain tire for light trucks and SUVs, the HTR Enhance CX2 from Sumitomo delivers Grand Touring passenger tire-style comfort and low noise. The HTR Enhance CX2 is designed with a high-density casing ply, high-tensile steel belts, jointless nylon cap ply, and reinforced bead apex for improved stability and beefy load capacity for hauling or towing.

In wet or wintry weather, the HTR Enhance CX2 is ready for it with an advanced tread formulation, shoulder blocks with integral lateral grooves, a 3D sipe network with bending sipes in the tire’s continuous center rib, and chamfered groove edges for enhanced traction and grip. An optimized contact patch puts the most rubber possible in contact with the road for superb braking, control, and tread wear. The HTR Enhance CX2 is covered by a 65,000 mile limited manufacturer’s tread life warranty. The HTR Enhance CX2 is everything that a highway-terrain tire for this generation of trucks and SUVs should be.

Other Sumitomo HTR tires

In addition to these, the Sumitomo HTR product family also includes:

• Sumitomo HTR Z III
• Sumitomo HTR Z II
• Sumitomo HTR Z
• Sumitomo HTR T4
• Sumitomo HTR Sport H/P
• Sumitomo HTR Sport A/T
• Sumitomo HTR H4
• Sumitomo Enhance WX2
• Sumitomo ENHANCE LX
• Sumitomo Enhance CX
• Sumitomo HTR 200
• Sumitomo HTR A/S P01
• Sumitomo HTR A/S P02