While the everyday driver relies on a set of pneumatic tires to get from A to B, tire companies like Michelin are doing valuable research and development into airless tires because they don’t go flat.

There’s nothing that ruins going to work like having your tires shot out with a .50 caliber machine gun round. If that happens to you a lot, and your commute is across open fields and through the ...

All-terrain vehicle riders, the pain will soon be over. For years, pneumatic tires -- the kind you fill with air -- have been a burr in the side of the ATV industry. Even on short excursions over ...

According to Polaris, the TerrainArmor tires, can take a direct hit from a .50-caliber round and still drive 350 miles; they can also last 1,000 miles after running over a railroad spike. How do they ...

Airless—or non-pneumatic tires—have popped up from time to time over the past few years, and while they offer many advantages over traditional air-filled tires, they haven’t been available outside of ...

Polaris, maker of powersports vehicles such as snowmobiles and ATVs, will put an airless tire onto a production vehicle by 2014. To recap, an “airless tire” is what’s known as a non-pneumatic tire ...

The Polaris Factory Racing crew is doing something special in off-road competition. In an announcement last week, it claimed to be the industry’s first manufacturer-backed race team with a ...