15 minutes total run time or 15 minutes straight? Like, in a theoreticall track where it can reach the speed for a moment but then have to break and turn stuff. But then again, the engine and transmission probably wont last that long without breaking either.
15 min not in total, it's meant as 15 mins straight. Putting load on tyres causes them to heat up quite quickly. A 1.9 ton car like the Veyron at 250 mph is an insane amount of load the tyred have to bear, so they can only do it for 15 minutes at a time before they get so hot that they overpressure (remember air expands when it gets warm) causing them to start breaking down and risking a blowout.
Career tire industry person here. To be clear, VW is a very, very large original equipment (OE) account for MIchelin. But it's just one of many, many, many. Losing VW would have hurt Michelin, but to say Michelin would've gone bankrupt over losing one OE account is pretty ridiculous. Otherwise, pretty cool story and the new Bugatti's are pretty sweet.
This video is the biggest croc of shit I ever saw. Michelin was never anywhere near going bankrupt as they are the most successful tire company in the world.
Also Goodyear was developing tires that could handle much higher speeds since the 70s. And a lot of aircraft tires are rated for 220+ mph landing speeds
@PuerRidcully True. But they don't change the tires every single landing bro. Usually around 300 cycles. Which on the heavies comes out to about an hour. On an aircraft in the 75000 - 100000lb dry weight.
Huge? Not that much at that time. They didn't sell as much as their competition, but their tires were really good. But I agree this story is bullshit. Michelin accepted by their own accord, and VW didn't force them to do it.
@emj1794 well its not above their pay grade. That phrase is when something is above your capabilities or duties. They had no problem doing this, the reason they made excuses is because its not profitable. The R & D required divided by the # of estimated sales makes it basically a literal "money pit" project. But if they lose VW business theyre screwed, so in the end it was worth it to create them financially
That’s so true because if you give a bunch of engineers fixed price contract for a trade study they will attempt to break the laws of physics, at your expense of course.
@@latenttweet😂😂 I don't get what you're saying, are you saying anything can be done for a price basically?? I find it hard to believe that this tire technology that they're talking about was all that crazy 🤣
The real issue is that the tires have to be capable of running flat at full speed without causing, well, death. I'm sure plenty of tires can reach that speed but the car won't survive if they burst.
That's a lot of lies. Michelin already made tires for f1 cars back in 2001. Bridgestone and Pirelli have developed tires that can easily withstand +320 km/h (250 mi/h if you're monolingual)
and volkswagen is still nr 1 or nr 2, depending on the year, in the world. EVERY single year for centuries with toyota sooooo yeah they dont really care at all🤣
What ??? Vw almost made Michelin go bankrupt vw owns a lot of high-end car companies Google who they own Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, of course Volkswagen I can't name them all without looking Volkswagen has a contract with Michelin and would put them under if they canceled their contract
@@Shawn_313 it actually is, Volkswagen,Seat,Cupra,Skoda,Porsche,Lamborghini,Bugatti,Ducati,Man they have a healtcare company, Bank and the rent out Flats. And lets not forget they make the legendary VW Sausages. P.S. i work in "Wolfsburg" at the Headquarter of VW
Well the Veyron exists because Ferdinand Piech (CEO of VW Group at the time) wanted revenge against the French (specifically Peugeot) for taking the top speed record at Le Mans from his Porsche 917 with a purpose built race car to beat that record. Piech wanted to beat Peugeot’s race car with a road car that was wrapped in leather with a radio and AC. That’s why the top speed is what it is, rather than just being 400km/h it was 408 in order to beat the Peugeot’s 407… I recommend watching Jason Cammisa’s video on the Veyron as well as his video on Ferdinand Piech, he’s a journalist for Hagerty and all of his videos are awesome. My other favorites are on the Rover SD1, Lotus Carlton, and Mercedes 300SL Gullwing.
Meanwhile, 1987 the Calloway Sledgehammer was a 250+mph Corvette that used street tires made by Goodyear. Michelin didn’t think it was impossible to make such tires, they just thought it was impractical and they didn’t want to do it.
Aircraft tires are not built like car tires, learn more. And drag cars' tires aren't street legal. The title of fastest *production* car requires it to be legal. There's a reason when you look up the fastest car in the world you don't get custom build results but production results
@@brightonhansford3926 the video says fastest car in the world not fastest production car. The land speed record cars beat it going back to like the 40s. On tires.
@@danielkarcis1174 reference what I said. No one says "fastest car in the world" and means any land vehicle. It always refers to production cars, unless it is specified that you are including *all* land vehicles. And the land speed record is held by ThrustSSC since 97'.
@@brightonhansford3926 you are really cherrypicking to defend the vid bro. Neither they would go bankrupt, nor designing such tyre was rocket science. There was no product like that in existence only cause there was no other car that went that fast with the exact measurements. Yes plane tyres are built differently, but they take higher forces as well. Sure landing/start doesn’t take 15 minutes, but they last HUNDREDS of them. Also what a stupid take with the search results. You get a result that is searched the most, not the best answer. RN the answer you get is speed for Jesko Absolut which hasn’t even been confirmed. So there you have your „fastest production car” being a car with theoretical speed.
Michelin had way too many manufacturing plants at that point in time to be threatened into bankruptcy by tiny percentage of a niche market, by a company selling a handful of cars per year that needed these tires...
We had tires that were meant for that speed well before then but they weren't meant for the road. Some racecars had tires built for that and obviously drag cars
The VW CEO at the time Ferdinand Piech wanted to create the fastest car in the world. Bugatti just went bankrupt at the time, so he bought it and made it into the bugatti we all know today. He was the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche btw.
15 min at a time at 250mph so you need breaks in between to let the air inside the tire to cool down. Not 15 min total. They'll definitely last a full track day or two.
It was $42,000 because Michelin spent millions and millions and MILLIONS of dollars to get the R&D done to make this possible. They had to recoup the money spent. Knowing that not many tires will sell since not many bugs were needing of tires as much they jacked them up and no you can get the whole set with wheels for 30k
Michelin had an exclusive deal to manufacture tires to all cars under VW umbrella, and almost ended because Michelin couldn't do it for the Veyron. VW would have gone to Pirelli or Bridgestone and Michelin would have had to close its doors.
@@phawxhunterDo you have any clue how dumb of a statement that is? Have any idea how big of a company Michelin is? Maybe do some research so you dont look so ignorant commenting on stuff you obviously know nothing about.
LOL This is the type of crap that proves anyone can upload a video saying anything they want whether it’s true or not doesn’t matter. I assure you Michelin isn’t going out of business over a single car or even a single brand of car, especially a car produced in such limited numbers like the Veyron 🤦🏻♂️
@@gm6892 or f1 cars from the 70s and 80s, yeah the top speed wasn't as high but the load on the tyres due to the downforce and cornering speed was miles higher than the Bugatti going in a straight line, this video is just talking nonsense
You missed the part where Volkswagen was going to pull out of all their contracts with Michelin. That would’ve absolutely crippled Michelin due to Volkswagen making up a majority of their tires sales.
@@gm6892yes but the Mcclaren wasn’t using street legal tires for that pass. That’s the whole point. Before the veyron there was no street legal tire that could perform that well. The F1 had on race tires when setting those records.
I worked for Dunlop motorsport for 12 years. They would have made those tyres no problem at all. But they no longer build tyres here in the UK anymore thanks to Goodyear.
Dunlop doesn't have recognition it should have... I got dunlop tires on heavy farming equipment - they are pretty damn tough. Solid recommendation from farmer
Yes it was possible . Infact it had already been done by Goodyear . The Callaway Sledgehammer Corvette set a record that stood for many year . In 1989 they set a record of 254.76 . The car was driven from Connecticut to the track in Ohio a nearly 700 mile treck . They installed the Goodyear tire and wheel package rated to a top speed of 300 mph for the run . Those tires cost about 1 million dollars to produce . After the record run the tires were taken off and the regular Goodyears Eagles were installed .
That "High Tread, Inspected Used Tire" stickered tire image is of a Vredestein Ultrac Vorti (Netherlands production) tire. I run those on my 2003 BMW X5 V8 in the Texas summer heat.
@@Why_Cant_I_Use_My_ProfName 0.1? Bro, what? And what Kyle said, in game, probably Forza. This fuck doesn’t have any Bugattis in irl. Tryna get attention like a sad shit.
Michelin before making tires for bugatti veyron : “ Its impossible to make it “ Volkswagen and bugatti: “ Well go bankrupt and lose money , we will not use your tires until you make the bugatti veyron tires “ Michelin after making tires for bugatti veyron: “ Oh , we can make it “
More like; M:"making these tires would cost a huge ammount of money and resources from our R&D sir, we cant make them" VW:"oh thats too bad, then i guess our contract is terminated, we wont be buying your tires at all anymore, im gonna find someone else to make our special tires." M:"b-b-but wr will go bankrupt! Our company is holding itself together thanks to your investments!" VW:"will you making those special tires also guarantee that you drive to bankrupcy?" M:"hum... I mean, not surely but..." VW:"then go make my tires."
@@hercegovac9999 Yeah, that’s why I said Michelin with losing ground with competition couldn’t afford to be hemorrhaging business but obviously they didn’t think so.
@@ietekoeke Michelin tire is not on base model of the car so not much modela have michelin tires… it would have big impact if the contract had been cancelled but not nearly enough to cause bankruptcy…
Volkswagen was like "Michelin you have one job, and only one job to make tires and you're telling me you can't do it? That's the wrong answer, good luck in the future✌🏾". 😂
Michelin is a massive global company, Take a look at their market cap and the future wirh it without VW is just fine. They make tires for everything that moves. The tractor trailer side makes a killing, Remember, That's 18 tires and more per vehicle, School bus tires, Planes, motorcycles, Military, And every type of construction vehicle up to and including those massive 10-15ft tall earth mover tires. Is Vw going to stop all their customers from putting Michelins on after the factory whatever tires wear out? Michelin also owns BF Goodrich and Uniroyal.
@@Shawn_313 ummm, I don't care about all that, do Michelin not make tires? You should of put that time and energy writing all of that on the main post, I bet you're fun at parties 🤦🏾♂️.
@@Shawn_313 guessing you didn't understand the video, so if you got something to say take it up with whoever made this content sir. You just wanna feel smart don't you have a cookie and gold ⭐👍🏾.
@@redhood9000 I understood the video just fine, Its just very far from the truth. Originally my reply was on the main post, Didn't mean it to be on yours, But thats where it ended up somehow. Either way... And I don't need to feel smart in some stupid comment section, Just trying to enlighten the mental midgets,.If you think that makes me smart, We know what end of the spectrum your on when it comes to intelligence. Have a good one, Pokémon is waiting in your moms basement for you 😉
I think the most amazing thing is that nowadays there's hypercars that can reach faster top speeds but tyre technology has advanced so far that they don't need special tyres to do so.
There was also the small issue of a tire used on plain old VW Golf’s and Jettas (Michelin Plus-X Green was the tire, I think). VW issued a recall in 2000 to replace tires on every car produced before X date. I was a dealership tech then so I did a lot of tire recalls
Michelin will never go bankrupt, they could have simply bought Volkswagen after that threat from Bugatti and fired the entire design team if they wanted to.
Correction, they didn't need to build tyres that could handle the speed, the needed tyres that could take the weight of the boat trip high speeds. Agera managed to do faster with off the shelf tyres with with tread to do the run 6 more times
Don't let this distract you from the the fact that in 1966, Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in the 1966 city championship game versus Andrew Johnson High School, including the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds against his old nemesis, "Spare Tire" Dixon
15 Minute restriction is Not a Problem. The Car will run Out of Gas after 9 minutes in full speed
15 minutes total run time or 15 minutes straight? Like, in a theoreticall track where it can reach the speed for a moment but then have to break and turn stuff. But then again, the engine and transmission probably wont last that long without breaking either.
Meaning after u refill u only have 6 min left at top speed before swap
@@IrvinHuerta-md6dp no 15 min at a time after you brake and fuel up you can go another 15
15 min not in total, it's meant as 15 mins straight. Putting load on tyres causes them to heat up quite quickly. A 1.9 ton car like the Veyron at 250 mph is an insane amount of load the tyred have to bear, so they can only do it for 15 minutes at a time before they get so hot that they overpressure (remember air expands when it gets warm) causing them to start breaking down and risking a blowout.
@@Tstahl962 isnt it because objects spinning too fast explode on themselves from centrifugal force or something?
Seems like it wasn’t impossible
At a very high cost.
Yeah but still, it can only last for 15min in high speed and cost aloooot
@@hyperkade1053 The car will run out of fuel in that 15 minutes
15 minutes, they surely meant that it was Impossible to make them durable
They never said it was impossible, it wasn't feasible. Whoever made this video is wrong.
Michelin: “Is that even possible?”
VW: “Ve vill ask ze queztions!”
LMAO
This is zee mark of zee Whore!! Lol.
⚰️ 💀
This comment should be pinned
I literally heard this in my mind lmaooo
Career tire industry person here. To be clear, VW is a very, very large original equipment (OE) account for MIchelin. But it's just one of many, many, many. Losing VW would have hurt Michelin, but to say Michelin would've gone bankrupt over losing one OE account is pretty ridiculous. Otherwise, pretty cool story and the new Bugatti's are pretty sweet.
Such is the quality of ai research
Wasnt Kleeber the OE for bag group back in the days, almost all vw's came with Kleeber tires back then ..
@@Ladyoftheroundtablesad to be you
The veyron isn’t new anymore, and tires have come a long way since its release.
Thank you, I was joining the comments section to call BS on this as well.
desperation breeds innovation
Or in this case innovation breeds desperation
Utterly pointless useless innovation
Every world war speaks by exactly those words
One of the tenets of SunTzu's Art of War
Necessity is the mother of all inventions
This video is the biggest croc of shit I ever saw. Michelin was never anywhere near going bankrupt as they are the most successful tire company in the world.
Also Goodyear was developing tires that could handle much higher speeds since the 70s. And a lot of aircraft tires are rated for 220+ mph landing speeds
@@mgkacharalso, drag cars have been gong past that number since the 80s
Thats wgat I'm thinking because we use them way too much
@@mgkachar show me a landing that lasts 15 minutes 😂
@PuerRidcully True. But they don't change the tires every single landing bro. Usually around 300 cycles. Which on the heavies comes out to about an hour. On an aircraft in the 75000 - 100000lb dry weight.
This is BS. Michelin is a huge manufacturer, no way they were gonna go bankrupt over VW. GTFO
This was before
Huge? Not that much at that time. They didn't sell as much as their competition, but their tires were really good. But I agree this story is bullshit. Michelin accepted by their own accord, and VW didn't force them to do it.
Volkswagen said don't make me put you out of business 💀🤣
Michelin gave dem an epic result 😂😂😂
"Its impossible"
VW: "and I took that personally"
like the Gas Wagen?
It wasn’t impossible
Haha except that’s not how it really went down but Michelin is a badass with tire design.
Lol
Best comment 😂
Engineer: "It's impossible"
Translation: That's not in my contract.
...nor my current pay grade
@emj1794 well its not above their pay grade. That phrase is when something is above your capabilities or duties. They had no problem doing this, the reason they made excuses is because its not profitable. The R & D required divided by the # of estimated sales makes it basically a literal "money pit" project. But if they lose VW business theyre screwed, so in the end it was worth it to create them financially
@@spencerkleiman5035
Ok. That makes sense
That’s so true because if you give a bunch of engineers fixed price contract for a trade study they will attempt to break the laws of physics, at your expense of course.
@@latenttweet😂😂 I don't get what you're saying, are you saying anything can be done for a price basically??
I find it hard to believe that this tire technology that they're talking about was all that crazy 🤣
The real issue is that the tires have to be capable of running flat at full speed without causing, well, death. I'm sure plenty of tires can reach that speed but the car won't survive if they burst.
That's a lot of lies. Michelin already made tires for f1 cars back in 2001. Bridgestone and Pirelli have developed tires that can easily withstand +320 km/h (250 mi/h if you're monolingual)
Yeah but road car is not a light f1 car and 250 miles per hour is 400 kph + not 320kph +
Math is hard...
407km/h for normal people
250mph for cheeseburger people
Gotta love those freedom burgers
253 mph*
🍔🇺🇸🍔🇺🇸🍔🇺🇸🍔
No, that’s actually 440,000 refrigerators per hour.
Haha I gone 275 dash going into the black land
Volkswagen almost went bankrupt because of Volkswagen
and volkswagen is still nr 1 or nr 2, depending on the year, in the world. EVERY single year for centuries with toyota sooooo yeah they dont really care at all🤣
Yeah and the next big car company will be from China 😅
What ??? Vw almost made Michelin go bankrupt vw owns a lot of high-end car companies Google who they own Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, of course Volkswagen I can't name them all without looking Volkswagen has a contract with Michelin and would put them under if they canceled their contract
@@cheeseburgers82wrong
@@Shawn_313 it actually is, Volkswagen,Seat,Cupra,Skoda,Porsche,Lamborghini,Bugatti,Ducati,Man
they have a healtcare company, Bank and the rent out Flats. And lets not forget they make the legendary VW Sausages.
P.S. i work in "Wolfsburg" at the Headquarter of VW
Those are the first tires to go 250 mph, how do they go 700 mph on the sand in the salt flats?
🤦♂️ those aren’t passenger tires. Usually they’re a special made compound if not just completely solid.
Man, 15 minutes at top speed?
That beats my personal record of 3 minutes in the bedroom by far!
A German company threatening a French company this sounds familiar
Well the Veyron exists because Ferdinand Piech (CEO of VW Group at the time) wanted revenge against the French (specifically Peugeot) for taking the top speed record at Le Mans from his Porsche 917 with a purpose built race car to beat that record. Piech wanted to beat Peugeot’s race car with a road car that was wrapped in leather with a radio and AC. That’s why the top speed is what it is, rather than just being 400km/h it was 408 in order to beat the Peugeot’s 407…
I recommend watching Jason Cammisa’s video on the Veyron as well as his video on Ferdinand Piech, he’s a journalist for Hagerty and all of his videos are awesome. My other favorites are on the Rover SD1, Lotus Carlton, and Mercedes 300SL Gullwing.
@@griffins750 thank you for that reply , I will check that out
@@griffins750you actually asked AI to write this for you 🤔
@@Wizzyyyyy-tf7xi Nope, copy paste :) Fuck ai.
😂😂😂
This is not what happened. Complete BS.
Can you link the real story than?
@@economicalrogi1311you're literally on a device that could Google that yourself the development process of the Veyron
Exactly..AI bull$hit.
Besides Goodyear pioneered the first supercar tire exceeding 400 mph.
@jaybee5832 400mph? Or km/h?
@@andsoblet I mean... Even if its kmph.. 450 kmph it's 279 mph so...
Meanwhile, 1987 the Calloway Sledgehammer was a 250+mph Corvette that used street tires made by Goodyear.
Michelin didn’t think it was impossible to make such tires, they just thought it was impractical and they didn’t want to do it.
Michelin: "cant do it. Its impossible."
VW: "but planes... nvm, we leaving"
If Volkswagen went out of business tomorrow that doesn't mean that Michelin would.
I guess airplanes and drag racers had no tires before 2000s. They must have started/landed purely thanks to pilot’s determination and strong will
because the drag races and landings take 15 minutes straight, right? 🙄
Aircraft tires are not built like car tires, learn more. And drag cars' tires aren't street legal. The title of fastest *production* car requires it to be legal. There's a reason when you look up the fastest car in the world you don't get custom build results but production results
@@brightonhansford3926 the video says fastest car in the world not fastest production car. The land speed record cars beat it going back to like the 40s. On tires.
@@danielkarcis1174 reference what I said. No one says "fastest car in the world" and means any land vehicle. It always refers to production cars, unless it is specified that you are including *all* land vehicles. And the land speed record is held by ThrustSSC since 97'.
@@brightonhansford3926 you are really cherrypicking to defend the vid bro. Neither they would go bankrupt, nor designing such tyre was rocket science. There was no product like that in existence only cause there was no other car that went that fast with the exact measurements. Yes plane tyres are built differently, but they take higher forces as well. Sure landing/start doesn’t take 15 minutes, but they last HUNDREDS of them. Also what a stupid take with the search results. You get a result that is searched the most, not the best answer. RN the answer you get is speed for Jesko Absolut which hasn’t even been confirmed. So there you have your „fastest production car” being a car with theoretical speed.
Some clips of Bugatti’s shown in this short are on aftermarket rims & tires 😂
Unfortunately, Michelin was the 2nd tire company to make tires to handle 240+ mph
AI voice and "that's why 🤡" ending. Typical cancerous short
That's to loop the video. Many people do that.
@@Why_Cant_I_Use_My_ProfName no shit sherlock
@@Why_Cant_I_Use_My_ProfName your anime profile photo explains a lot
@@Matthew_Removeafterwashing Explains what? Your brainrot or something? Speak like a normal human being, world doesn't revolve around you.
@@Matthew_Removeafterwashing why?, cuz he was right your going to judge him?
Its as they say. A scientist thinks outside of the box when there is a gun pointed at him
This works every time someone says I can't.
The idea that a VW contract could bankrupt Michelin is a joke.
Michelin had way too many manufacturing plants at that point in time to be threatened into bankruptcy by tiny percentage of a niche market, by a company selling a handful of cars per year that needed these tires...
Bugatti is part of Volkswagen.
@@Moritz259 does Volkswagen sell more than a handful of Bugattis per year?
Point being that nobody was in danger of going bankrupt.
They dont measure miles per gallon on a bugatti veyron
They measure gallons per mile 😂😂😂😂
Actually this is how we messure in germany. By liters/100km.
@@BenniWitt i know
More like smiles per second
I don’t thing they got it 😂
@@Atlan_tis They laugh at the joke before it's even told
That Polo falling apart: “Das Auto”
A true reality show…
Back in 1988 Callaway made a Corvette that could do 254.76mph (faster than a Veyron btw) on Goodyear Eagle F1 tires.
The Kawasaki H2R is also capable of reaching 250mph on two wheels only ! So creating such tires are for sure possible !
The bugatti is much heavier, and also need to account for the 1000 hp going straight to the wheels
We had tires that were meant for that speed well before then but they weren't meant for the road. Some racecars had tires built for that and obviously drag cars
Imagine blowing $42,000 tires in 15 minutes 💀
Imagine being able to afford the car and the running costs. Suddenly $42K is not such a big deal.
I did on a date one time with my ex 😜
Must have massive lungs! 😅
What? 😮
What? 🤔
Imagine driving 250/mph for FIFTEEN minutes straight!
@@abraxastulammo9940lol perfect comment
Ezek az évek voltak az autógyártás csúcsai!!
That's how Michelin made the user go bankrupt
I’m still blown away Bugatti Is a Volkswagen
Its not a VW its just owned by the VW Group which ownes Seat Audi Skoda Bentley Lamborghini Ducati etc
Sorry technical Tammy. If it’s made by them then that’s what it is. Just like a Lexus is a Toyota and Acura is a Honda etc.
@@thegreenpotatand VW is owned by Porsche Holding
Lol they been making fast cars look up the vw w12
The VW CEO at the time Ferdinand Piech wanted to create the fastest car in the world. Bugatti just went bankrupt at the time, so he bought it and made it into the bugatti we all know today. He was the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche btw.
"Lasts only 15 minutes ", yeah so basically impossible
What do you mean?
@@ExtraterrestrialBeing-jc7to 42k for tires that last 15 minutes is pretty useless.
@@izicial7469 not if the car has 1000HP and goes 250mph it would run outta gas first...
@@izicial7469They last 15 minutes at top speed. Most Bugatti owners don't drive 250 mph for 15 minutes.
15 min at a time at 250mph so you need breaks in between to let the air inside the tire to cool down. Not 15 min total. They'll definitely last a full track day or two.
It was $42,000 because Michelin spent millions and millions and MILLIONS of dollars to get the R&D done to make this possible. They had to recoup the money spent. Knowing that not many tires will sell since not many bugs were needing of tires as much they jacked them up and no you can get the whole set with wheels for 30k
Next goal is 500Km/h. The new bugatti coming out next month apparently shows 550Km/h top speed speedometer
What will happen first
- the tires explode
- run out of gas
😂😂😂😂😂
Run out of gas.
If Volkswagen went to Michelin, it was because only Michelin could do it.
Michelin had an exclusive deal to manufacture tires to all cars under VW umbrella, and almost ended because Michelin couldn't do it for the Veyron. VW would have gone to Pirelli or Bridgestone and Michelin would have had to close its doors.
@@phawxhunterDo you have any clue how dumb of a statement that is? Have any idea how big of a company Michelin is? Maybe do some research so you dont look so ignorant commenting on stuff you obviously know nothing about.
@@phawxhunter it's Michelin, they were nowhere near having to close down
Continental build Tires for the Mercedes T80 in 1940 which are tested for 700km/h or 434 mp/h 😊
Almost every major tire maker could do it, it's just a matter of cost.
Idk why they’re acting like top fuel drag cars don’t regularly do 300+ mph.
They should have said street legal tires. Top fuel dragsters have been using 300+ mph tires for years.
LOL This is the type of crap that proves anyone can upload a video saying anything they want whether it’s true or not doesn’t matter. I assure you Michelin isn’t going out of business over a single car or even a single brand of car, especially a car produced in such limited numbers like the Veyron 🤦🏻♂️
Zacklee! Show me the high demand for a million dollar (US not Pesos) car's tire. "It MUST be Michelin or nut skin else" is nonsense.
Or the fact vehicles reached those speeds ten years before. The McLaren f1 was pushing 240 in the 90’s.
@@gm6892 or f1 cars from the 70s and 80s, yeah the top speed wasn't as high but the load on the tyres due to the downforce and cornering speed was miles higher than the Bugatti going in a straight line, this video is just talking nonsense
You missed the part where Volkswagen was going to pull out of all their contracts with Michelin. That would’ve absolutely crippled Michelin due to Volkswagen making up a majority of their tires sales.
@@gm6892yes but the Mcclaren wasn’t using street legal tires for that pass. That’s the whole point. Before the veyron there was no street legal tire that could perform that well. The F1 had on race tires when setting those records.
Drove a BV12 for 600 km between Germany to France. Pushed the 320. No tires issue.
everyone's talking about how can the Michelin tires handle the speed of the car but no one's talking about how it can fully stop the car at full speed
So racing cars weren’t able to go above 250 until Michelin made a tyre for the Veyron? Wise up.
I worked for Dunlop motorsport for 12 years. They would have made those tyres no problem at all. But they no longer build tyres here in the UK anymore thanks to Goodyear.
Dunlop doesn't have recognition it should have... I got dunlop tires on heavy farming equipment - they are pretty damn tough. Solid recommendation from farmer
Imagine going 250mph and a tire pops 🤦🏾♂️
I’m going so fast uhhh why am I upside down
Yes it was possible . Infact it had already been done by Goodyear . The Callaway Sledgehammer Corvette set a record that stood for many year . In 1989 they set a record of 254.76 . The car was driven from Connecticut to the track in Ohio a nearly 700 mile treck . They installed the Goodyear tire and wheel package rated to a top speed of 300 mph for the run . Those tires cost about 1 million dollars to produce . After the record run the tires were taken off and the regular Goodyears Eagles were installed .
Michellin: It's not possible!
Volkswagen: No, It's Necessary.
That "High Tread, Inspected Used Tire" stickered tire image is of a Vredestein Ultrac Vorti (Netherlands production) tire.
I run those on my 2003 BMW X5 V8 in the Texas summer heat.
I suddenly feel guilty for owning so many bugattis now
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How much is so many tho? 0.1, 10, 100?
@@Why_Cant_I_Use_My_ProfName what do you mean he has all of them in the game....
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@@Why_Cant_I_Use_My_ProfName 0.1? Bro, what? And what Kyle said, in game, probably Forza. This fuck doesn’t have any Bugattis in irl. Tryna get attention like a sad shit.
The bugatti veyron is far more than just a fast car.
It's an engineering masterpiece.
Pretty sure Michelin could sue for breach of contract if Volkwagon made those threats if the scope of what they asked for was outside the contract.
Michelin before making tires for bugatti veyron : “ Its impossible to make it “
Volkswagen and bugatti: “ Well go bankrupt and lose money , we will not use your tires until you make the bugatti veyron tires “
Michelin after making tires for bugatti veyron: “ Oh , we can make it “
More like;
M:"making these tires would cost a huge ammount of money and resources from our R&D sir, we cant make them"
VW:"oh thats too bad, then i guess our contract is terminated, we wont be buying your tires at all anymore, im gonna find someone else to make our special tires."
M:"b-b-but wr will go bankrupt! Our company is holding itself together thanks to your investments!"
VW:"will you making those special tires also guarantee that you drive to bankrupcy?"
M:"hum... I mean, not surely but..."
VW:"then go make my tires."
Michelin now: “300 mph? No problem, let us know when you wanna hit 400.”
Jesus Christ this comment was long winded
The jesko tires bouta be thicc
The Germans: did I stutter? Make the tires
Now that's what I call an incentive.
If michelin didn’t make that tire it would just lose contract not go bankrupt they don’t sell tires just for Volkswagen group…
Keep in mind that at the time Volkswagen owned several brands at the time and Michelin was losing ground to its rivals at the time.
@@VinceroAlpha Michelin was the best tire at the time, now it is Continental for me
@@hercegovac9999 Yeah, that’s why I said Michelin with losing ground with competition couldn’t afford to be hemorrhaging business but obviously they didn’t think so.
It would have a great impact, vw is the biggest car manufacturer in the world
@@ietekoeke Michelin tire is not on base model of the car so not much modela have michelin tires… it would have big impact if the contract had been cancelled but not nearly enough to cause bankruptcy…
That's the French for ya :)
Volkswagen is german
Michelin is French
VW is german
Michelin is french
Bugatti is french
I love it when people are like Bugatti is so French engineering or Lamborghini is so Italian engineering and I’m over here, nice beetle bruh
Whoever wrote the script is ALMOST as smart as the voice!
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What!
Volkswagen was like "Michelin you have one job, and only one job to make tires and you're telling me you can't do it? That's the wrong answer, good luck in the future✌🏾".
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Michelin is a massive global company, Take a look at their market cap and the future wirh it without VW is just fine.
They make tires for everything that moves. The tractor trailer side makes a killing, Remember, That's 18 tires and more per vehicle, School bus tires, Planes, motorcycles, Military, And every type of construction vehicle up to and including those massive 10-15ft tall earth mover tires.
Is Vw going to stop all their customers from putting Michelins on after the factory whatever tires wear out?
Michelin also owns BF Goodrich and Uniroyal.
@@Shawn_313 ummm, I don't care about all that, do Michelin not make tires? You should of put that time and energy writing all of that on the main post, I bet you're fun at parties 🤦🏾♂️.
@@Shawn_313 guessing you didn't understand the video, so if you got something to say take it up with whoever made this content sir. You just wanna feel smart don't you have a cookie and gold ⭐👍🏾.
@@redhood9000 I understood the video just fine, Its just very far from the truth.
Originally my reply was on the main post, Didn't mean it to be on yours, But thats where it ended up somehow. Either way...
And I don't need to feel smart in some stupid comment section, Just trying to enlighten the mental midgets,.If you think that makes me smart, We know what end of the spectrum your on when it comes to intelligence.
Have a good one, Pokémon is waiting in your moms basement for you 😉
This is how you finesse a finesser 😂
Reported for misinformation and also emailed Michelin and VW. Best of luck with the law suits.
Great editing and music👊
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Love ur vids❤
"It's not possible "
"No, it's necessary"
If my memory serves me well, they used Falken tyres on the Veyron
W video
15 minutes of continuous 250 mph seems pretty fair, as for the price 😬
There's always this law of causation where some one else pushes you to a boundary that you thought couldn't be broken.
There’s videos out there of a red Honda Civic going 220 mph with regular ass tires np 😂
I think the most amazing thing is that nowadays there's hypercars that can reach faster top speeds but tyre technology has advanced so far that they don't need special tyres to do so.
OEMs are considered technology partners and cannot be ignored by equipment manufacturers.
That edit is made by a true professional...
Transport category aircraft have maximum tire speeds in that range, while also being rated for tens of thousands of pounds each (on the low end).
250 ain’t even that crazy anymore
There was also the small issue of a tire used on plain old VW Golf’s and Jettas (Michelin Plus-X Green was the tire, I think). VW issued a recall in 2000 to replace tires on every car produced before X date. I was a dealership tech then so I did a lot of tire recalls
Michelin will never go bankrupt, they could have simply bought Volkswagen after that threat from Bugatti and fired the entire design team if they wanted to.
I dont rate Michelin tyres as nearly every set ive seen on people's cars have cracked sidewalls which is a red flag for me
Correction, they didn't need to build tyres that could handle the speed, the needed tyres that could take the weight of the boat trip high speeds. Agera managed to do faster with off the shelf tyres with with tread to do the run 6 more times
Thought the tyres were for the Chiron
Don't let this distract you from the the fact that in 1966, Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in the 1966 city championship game versus Andrew Johnson High School, including the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds against his old nemesis, "Spare Tire" Dixon
My Golf handles like a dream on Michelin Pilot Sports.
We need even more scary music to this terrifying news
The “uuuhhhhhhh” sound effect 😂😭
At first I read Volkanovski and thought one of the featherweight goats was beefing with Michelin lol
Tire that lasts for 15 Min. Sounds like a method to make a lot of money
VW's like "I own you"
Corvette sledgehammer did 250 in the 80s with 100 mph tires
Guy who broke the land speed record: 🗿
Volkswagen to Michellin : "See? It wasn't that hard..😌"
They should have called GoodYear. Their top fuel dragster tires can handle speeds excess of 300+ mph.
"Reach over 250 mph"
Literally shows an suv going faster om the highway 😂
That's how professionals do business
Last time I checked Goodyear produces tires for Indy cars and F1 that can withstand those speeds.