Her Majesty The Queen Prefers Pirelli

reported that the Queen’s staff approached Pirelli earlier in the year, with Her Majesty’s request for new royal rubber on her 2002 model Bentley

Michelin Takes to the Skies

French tyre manufacturer Michelin will again take to the skies, after being selected to develop and supply tyres for the new wide body Airbus A350 XWB.

Bridgestone tyres return to profitability

The Japanese tyres manufacturer posted 66.8 billion yen profit over the first nine months of this year, on sales of 2.09 trillion yen.

That was a turnaround from the same period last year when the company recorded a 27.5 billion yen loss and sales were 12 per cent lower.

Pirelli Completes Three-Year Tenure as Official WRC Tyre Supplier

Under the terms of its agreement with the FIA, Pirelli was challenged to focus on durability rather than outright performance when developing its WRC tyre range, albeit without using mousse inserts. It is therefore great testament to the advance design and meticulous production processes employed by Pirelli that of those 26,960 tyres supplied, only 42 have suffered failures on the punishing terrain encountered on world championship rallies, a percentage of 0.016.

Pirelli Ready for WRC Season Finale

Pirelli will complete its three-year tenure as the official tyre supplier to the FIA World Rally Championship under an exclusive agreement with the FIA, motorsport’s world governing body, on Wales Rally GB this week (November 11-14).

Pirelli on Top in Cyprus

This latest dominant performance from Pirelli has underlined the qualities of the Italian tyres in the face of its strongest rivals on a wide range of surfaces. Cyprus was the first mixed-surface event in the history of the Eurosport-backed IRC series, with 51% asphalt and 49% gravel. Nonetheless, the competitors were obliged to use gravel tyres for the whole event apart from the spectator superspecial.

Vehicle sales (FCAI): Solid Result for October

Toyota was once again the top selling marque in October with 16,329 sales; followed by Holden with 9,956 and then Ford with 7,150 units.

Continental Raises Forecast for the Year to more than 25 Billion Euros in Sales

The Continental Corporation will achieve sales of more than 25 billion Euros in fiscal 2010. At the same time, after three quarters the international automotive supplier is increasing its target margin for the full fiscal year from 8 – 8.5% to approximately 9%.

De La Rosa Racks up the Kilometres at le Castellet

Pirelli’s Formula One testing programme has now rolled past the 7000-kilometre mark as Pedro de la Rosa resumed his duties at the Le Castellet circuit in southern France at the wheel of Toyota’s TF109.

Pirelli to Support New WRC Academy

Conceived as the replacement for the existing FIA Junior World Rally Championship, the WRC Academy will be contested by aspiring drivers on six rounds of next season’s World Rally Championship, which Pirelli has supplied tyres to on an exclusive basis from 2008-2010.