Falken Tires Quick Bio and Tires for Sale
As one of the tire industries youngest companies, Falken Tires has succeeded by carving a niche in the ultra-high performance tire market. Founded in 1983 under the Ohtsu Tire & Rubber brand, Sumitomo Tire & Rubber set out to create a leading high performance radial tire.
Their passion, professionalism and dedication to quality has allowed Falken Tires to position itself as the world’s 4th largest ultra-high performance tire producer.1 With their rising success in the world of motorsports, Falken Tires continues to prove their creative approach will remain successful. Falken Tires is headquartered in Fontana, California, about 50 miles east of Los Angeles, allowing them to keep their finger on the pulse of the Southern California tire market, one of the largest ultra-high performance tire markets in the world.
Falken’s full line of high and ultra-high performance tires are designed for drivers eager to test their vehicle’s abilities, and with tires for sports sedans, coupes, SUV’s, trucks, crossovers, all-terrain vehicles and the world’s finest sports cars, Falken has a set of tires just for you.
The Falken FK510 is “the Spirit of the ultra-high performance tire.”† The FK510 uses several innovative features to improve performance. By combining four high-volume circumferential grooves, a new silica compound and multi-angled grooves they’ve improved wet traction while reducing wear. With phase shifted-random pitch variation road noise level common to performance tires, is greatly reduced. To ensure maximum handling across different sizes, Falken uses reinforced steel bead fillers and a dual tread compound, which allows for more responsive handling. With sizes ranging from 16” up to 24”, Falken has your tire size.
Dubbed the “Spirit of the All Season Performance Tire,” the Ziex ZE-950 is Falken’s answer to high performance tires. To increase performance in all climates, the Ziex ZE-950 has full-depth sipes and combines high volume circumferential grooves with high angle variable cross grooves. The addition of tread wear indicators helps prolong the life of the tire, which carries a 65,000 mile limited warranty on H&V speed rated tires and a 40,000 mile limited warranty on W speed rated tires.
The Falken Ziex STZ-05 is a high performance tire for your truck, crossover or SUV. Targeting the luxury performance SUV and CUV market, Falken built the Ziex STZ-05 to be versatile by including various grooves to evacuate water more effectively; a high polymer silica compound, which creates superior grip and traction; and an asymmetric tread and large outside shoulder block to greatly improve all forms of handling.
Falken has its sights set on reenergizing the all-performance truck and SUV tire markets with the WildPeak A/T, and you can expect to experience Falken Tires’ passion for high performance and beautiful design aesthetics with the WildPeak A/T3W. Offered in a wide range of metric and LT metric sizes, including today’s most popular OE sizes, Falken aims to serve a larger base of drivers. Multi-angled grooves dispel all earthly liquids, rain, snow and mud, more aggressively, while biting block edges increase traction and control off road.
Falken Tires has been a trusted partner of Porsche, Subaru, Suzuki and Daihatsu, providing original equipment tires for many years. No matter your vehicle or need, you can be sure that you’re getting a set of tires that will perform, not only as you expect but also as the automaker intended.
Whether the Ziex line of all-season tires, the Azenis line of high performance tires, the WildPeak branded all-terrain tires, or a number of other tire models, Falken Tires’ passion and creativity means you’re able to drive with the same passion and creativity, on tires of the highest quality and with the highest performance capabilities. Join us in our Falken Tires showroom and let’s see if we can find the right set of Falken tires for you at Next Tires! We’re confident you’ll find a set of tires that will fit your automotive needs.
Also, and should you need assistance finding the right Falken tires for your car, truck or SUV, please contact us at Next Tires by calling 1-800-360-5459. Or, you can email us at sales@nexttires.com or support@nexttires.com, we’ll be glad to help however we can!
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† From the Falken Tire website.
1 Information based on 2011 sales data.
