Kumho to supply tires for Dodge Viper

The 2016 Dodge Viper ACR super car will be fitted with Kumho Tire’s Ecsta V720 tires, designed and developed specially for the American race car. Under the exclusive partnership with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, the local tire maker started supplying high performance tires from this month. / Courtesy of Kumho Tire

By Park Jin-hai

Kumho Tire is supplying tires for American super car 2016 Dodge Viper ACR from this month.

The Dodge Viper is Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ racing car brand. With an 8.4-liter engine, a Viper set a production car lap record at Nurburgring, Germany, in 2011.

The latest 2016 Dodge Viper ACR boasts the fastest lap time as a street-legal race car.

The 2016 Dodge Viper will be fitted with specially designed Kumho Ecsta V720 tires in sizes 295/25ZR19 (front) and 355/30ZR19 (rear). Dodge claims the tires provide the largest combined contact patch of any production car, having been designed and developed specially for the Viper ACR.

The tires have helped achieve lap times up to 1.5 seconds faster than benchmark race tires in back-to-back testing.

Kumho Tire signed an exclusive partnership deal with Chrysler last year to develop high-performance tires. Kumho has been supplying the tires for the Viper from this month.

“Our tire supply to Dodge Viper clearly tells where our technology stands in the global high-performance car market,” said OE development managing director Kim Hyun-ho.

“It is more meaningful, because the Ecsta V720 makes the most of our racing technology built on various motor sports events in and outside the country.”

Since 2006, Kumho Tire has been supplying original equipment tires for such models as the Chrysler 200, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Jeep Compass and Dodge Journey.