| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Interesting News |
| Date: | Tue, 12 May 1998 10:46:59 +0100 |
[run-flat tires]
> Of course, they've probably been around longer than that, that was just
> my first experience with them.
Most modern US military wheeled vehicles have runflat tires, I believe
since the mid-1980s or so. Only now do they start appearing on civilian
cars as well. One of the advantages from the car designer's point of
view is that they free up space inside the car where normally the spare
wheel is carried.
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