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congrats mofos
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I have never been to a drifting event, but i want to go bad....I think that is awesome that you guys got one for the americans.....Can you do different colors? That would be cool like at the air shows you know, but have one tire blue, one red, and maybe a little white smoke off the fronts if you know what i mean....This could go very far...CONGRATS
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Originally Posted by TampaTSi
this is a sport?!?!?!
just fooling w/ you guys!
does the coloring have any side effects on the stickiness of the tires?
just fooling w/ you guys!
does the coloring have any side effects on the stickiness of the tires?
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Originally Posted by TampaTSi
this is a sport?!?!?!
just fooling w/ you guys!
does the coloring have any side effects on the stickiness of the tires?
just fooling w/ you guys!
does the coloring have any side effects on the stickiness of the tires?
yes it does make them stickier but i dont think matt or rob cared at the time cause everyone was going ape-shit over the tires and smoke
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fucking stole it from mario kart 64, except for they had Es for smoke.
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Originally Posted by Drag-KA24DE
already been answered in this thread...
yes it does make them stickier but i dont think matt or rob cared at the time cause everyone was going ape-shit over the tires and smoke
yes it does make them stickier but i dont think matt or rob cared at the time cause everyone was going ape-shit over the tires and smoke
actually i think kumho adjusted the compound a bit, i don't think the extra stickyness was a result of the dye.
so matt, have you guys gotten the cars clean yet?
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Colored tire compounds are used by BFG on the Scorcher T/A and by Michelin on some of their full-on racing slicks. It's been done in the past.
Dunlop had some green-smoking tires for NOPI last year, and Toyo actually knew what the "big secret" was and said they had talked about it years ago
It was fairly unique, but not something the world has never seen before. People got a kick out of it but it seemed like no one cared really soon afterwards. There was a big cheer on Friday, but by Saturday evening it didn't seem to make a difference.
I don't really think that the tire manufacturers are going to jump on this bandwagon. The Scorcher T/A already went down this road and you can see how well those sell. It's not like everyone can go and use those on the street to impress their friends.
Will this motivate more tire sales of Kumho tires? Possibly, but most likely not. It takes more than colored smoke in this demographic to really steer sales. If they start to do some serious marketing happening behind just the colored smoke, they might have something.
But there's always the Scorcher T/A.
P.S. Tarzan always jumps around with his tongue hanging out. That's part of his character. It's like saying "OMG you drove by and Nomuken made the cat face!"
Dunlop had some green-smoking tires for NOPI last year, and Toyo actually knew what the "big secret" was and said they had talked about it years ago
It was fairly unique, but not something the world has never seen before. People got a kick out of it but it seemed like no one cared really soon afterwards. There was a big cheer on Friday, but by Saturday evening it didn't seem to make a difference.
I don't really think that the tire manufacturers are going to jump on this bandwagon. The Scorcher T/A already went down this road and you can see how well those sell. It's not like everyone can go and use those on the street to impress their friends.
Will this motivate more tire sales of Kumho tires? Possibly, but most likely not. It takes more than colored smoke in this demographic to really steer sales. If they start to do some serious marketing happening behind just the colored smoke, they might have something.
But there's always the Scorcher T/A.
P.S. Tarzan always jumps around with his tongue hanging out. That's part of his character. It's like saying "OMG you drove by and Nomuken made the cat face!"
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