Technicolor pirellis
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- 22nd March 2011, 23:39 at 11:39 pm #129070mcmercslrParticipant
i was just thinking why dint pirelli make the whole tyre the colour that its represented as. like white tyres, blue inters, orange wets (http://twitpic.com/4c96z2 bad photoshopping by me there. took me 5 mins) etc.
23rd March 2011, 0:44 at 12:44 am #164112mcmercslrParticipantAll silver tyres http://t.co/EYpMscu
23rd March 2011, 7:39 at 7:39 am #164113IcthyesParticipantBecause whilst it would be a nice idea, it would be awful to look at!
23rd March 2011, 7:53 at 7:53 am #164114GeeMacParticipantPirelli did that already, well, with the sidewalls at least, on the Benetton B186 at Detroit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gerhard_Berger_1986_Detroit.jpg
23rd March 2011, 7:56 at 7:56 am #164115Mark HitchcockParticipantThat Benetton is a warning to the world.
23rd March 2011, 13:39 at 1:39 pm #164116AndrewTannerParticipantMy my…this all looks a bit silly :/
I guess it would dampen their brand awareness on the tyres.
23rd March 2011, 14:07 at 2:07 pm #164117dennisParticipantNo clown-cars, please.
23rd March 2011, 17:35 at 5:35 pm #164118Ned FlandersParticipantWould it be possible for an entire tyre to be given a particular colour without simply spray painting it? Because that would look amazing! Obviously, it’d never happen, because it would ruin everyone’s liveries and corporate identities, but in theory it would be very cool
23rd March 2011, 18:01 at 6:01 pm #164119infyParticipantBlack skid marks please, not blue.
23rd March 2011, 18:36 at 6:36 pm #164120dennisParticipantI think Michelin a few years back said that it would be no problem at all to colour the rubber itself, so that the tyres could come in all different colours. But it’s the same as with ketchup. People know black tyres, and all they want is black tyres.
23rd March 2011, 19:22 at 7:22 pm #164121Ned FlandersParticipantEverything seems like a bad idea ’til you get used to it. I bet when somebody came up with the idea of slicing loaves of bread he would’ve looked quite the fool, but now he’d have the last laugh, because bread slicing is widely accepted to be the best idea ever. Maybe in 50 years time people will be looking back thinking, ‘how on earth did we get by with boring black tyres for so long?? Thank God for the trailblazing Technicolour Pirelli’s!’
23rd March 2011, 20:27 at 8:27 pm #164122AnonymousInactiveImagine orange tyres on a red Ferrari. Bleah.
23rd March 2011, 22:36 at 10:36 pm #164123dennisParticipantI don’t slice my bread. I paint it black.
24th March 2011, 11:30 at 11:30 am #164124ZadakMemberthe colour clashes would be a disaster
24th March 2011, 12:37 at 12:37 pm #164125AnonymousInactiveI’ve read in the past that the technology is there for tyres to be any colour the manufacturers want them to be (and not just by painting them, actually colouring the rubber), but they’re kept black because they are traditionally black, stemming from when the technology wasn’t there to make them any colour, and they had to be black.
I think the coloured writing works well enough, far better than the green ring. Be good to have some colour back on the tyres after years of Bridgestone and Michelin white.
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