Nankang Cross Sport SP-9 Review

Touring all season tires are the most popular models on the market due to their excellent year round performance and high comfort levels. They ensure superb controllability and driving durability, enabling their long distance performing capability.

Priority Tire offers a long line of touring tires for sale from various brands, however, one of our best-selling models is the Nankang Cross Sport SP-9. This model is made to be mounted on passenger and crossover vehicles and SUVs. It ensures high comfort levels, great controllability, exceptional all weather grip and an astounding 50,000 mile treadwear warranty.

All Weather Performance

All season tires offer an excellent combination of varying weather performance. They enable the tire’s usability throughout the year and ensure a safer driving experience. These models promote better traction all year, and, as a result, the tires do not need to be changed in accordance with the seasons.

The Cross Sport SP-9 was designed with an asymmetric tread design which features a high-density siping detail and an optimal tread block and rib pattern. They work together to increase the traction the tire has on the road surface all year. These tread elements heighten the number of biting edges gripping the road surface in dry, wet and winter weather to guarantee a secure performance. The all season tire compound maintains the tire’s flexibility in various conditions and promotes a better grip on the road surface throughout the year, for a safer driving experience.

The tread’s wide circumferential grooves help avoid dangerous hydroplaning. Hydroplaning is a dangerous road hazard that happens when water and slush stuck on the road surface cuts off the tire’s contact with the road surface. This causes the vehicle to skid as the driver loses control over it. The Cross Sport SP-9’s wide circumferential groove pattern decreases the possibility of hydroplaning significantly. They channel water and slush away from the tire’s footprint and keep the tire’s contact with the road surface constantly. In this manner, the tire guarantees a safer wet and winter weather performance.

Handling and Controllability

A tire’s controllability ensures the driver’s capability to maneuver the vehicle. All tires must be easily controllable to ensure a secure driving experience. They have to improve their steering responsiveness and driving stability to promote exceptional driving safety in different conditions.

The Cross Sport SP-9 guarantees a constant contact with the road surface. The tread features angled tread blocks that firmly grip the road surface and enhance the tire’s controllability. In this manner, the asymmetric tread design with the optimal block placement and the continuous center ribs closely follows the road surface at all times to increase the steering responsiveness and the driving stability. The better and constant road contact improves the steering response time and accuracy to the driver’s commands, while it also stabilizes the structure against the driving pressure affecting the model. This allows the driver to confidently maneuver the vehicle in all weather.

The tread pattern also features stronger shoulder tread blocks, which keep the tire’s road contact and provide additional biting edges. Their upgraded road contact and better road gripping capability boost the Cross Sport SP-9’s cornering and maneuvering capability. They maintain the tire’s optional road contact and shape to guarantee a secure performing ability. On the other hand, the tread’s high siping density upgrades the braking ability. They create friction between the tire and the road surface at the moment of braking, which significantly shortens the braking distance and ensures a safer performance and driving capability.

Improved Durability

A tire’s internal structure needs to support the vehicle and its passengers and it cannot deform under the external driving pressure affecting it. The deformation of the shape can cause excessive tread wear and, at times, can lead to accidents. As a result, a tire’s construction must have first-rate durability.

The Cross Sport SP-9 was designed and manufactured with the strengthened internal structure. The tire’s construction features twin steel belts that maintain the optimal tire shape throughout its performance. This structure prevents the tire from deforming under the driving pressure affecting the model, which improves its performing capability and heightens the driving comfort greatly. The better durability ensures an exceptional driving safety.

High Driving Comfort Levels

Touring tires always promote high driving comfort levels. They manage to lower the road vibrations felt and road noise heard in the vehicle’s cabin to ensure a secure performing capability.

The Cross Sport SP-9 was manufactured with an optimized tread pattern. The asymmetric tread design features a variable pitch phase shift along the tread area that helps lower the road noise levels heard while the tires are in motion. This pitch sequence negates the road noise generated with the sound frequency it creates. In this manner, the tire’s tread pattern cancels out the road noise before it can reach the vehicle’s cabin and dampen the driving enjoyment of the passengers.

The model’s reinforced internal structure maintains its optimal shape under the driving pressure affecting it. This allows the Cross Sport SP-9 to constantly closely follow the road surface. As a result, the tire absorbs the shock of driving while the tires are in motion, which decreases the road vibrations felt in the vehicle’s cabin during the drive. The lowered road noise and vibration levels ensure a comfortable and enjoyable driving experience throughout the year.