Pirelli Scorpion Winter Review

Winter tires come in different shapes and sizes. From passenger tires to light trucks, you can find the size needed for your vehicle among our winter tire lineup, here at Priority Tire.

An excellent winter tire choice is the Pirelli Scorpion Winter. This model was made to be mounted on SUVs and crossover vehicles. This model offers excellent winter weather traction, great controllability and even a fuel efficient performance.

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Winter Weather Performance

Directional tread designs on winter tires offer better forward motion on versatile winter weather road conditions. Such tires promote safer driving experience when driving on ice- and snow-covered road surfaces.

The Scorpion Winter uses its detailed directional pattern to boost the winter weather grip. The directional, symmetric tread features a detailed, interconnecting siping pattern that increases the number of biting edges gripping the road surface while the tires are in motion. The tread elements enhance the grip on the road surface, while the winter weather compound manages to keeps the rubber flexibility in colder temperatures. In this manner, the tire ensures a safer driving experience in various winter conditions.

The tread design of the directional pattern also sports wide grooves which help prevent hydroplaning. Hydroplaning is a dangerous road hazard which happens when standing water and slush stuck on the road surface cuts off the tire’s surface contact. This causes the vehicle to skid and the driver to close control over the vehicle. The Scorpion Winter boosts the hydroplaning resistance as the wide circumferential and numerous angled lateral grooves disperse water and slush from below the footprint and keep the tire’s surface contact. As a result, the tire improves the wet and slushy surface performance.

Great Fuel Efficiency

Tires which offer better fuel efficiency greatly lower the vehicle’s fuel intake. Such tires are more fuel and environmentally conscious during their performance.

The Scorpion Winter utilizes its special tread design and compound to lower the driving pressure affecting the model. The symmetric, directional tread design and the durable, high-traction compound improve the tire’s gripping ability. This allows them to ease the driving pressure off the tire during the drive. In this manner, the tire lowers its rolling resistance. The rolling resistance is the pressure which determines the vehicle’s fuel consumption and CO2 emissions while the tires are in motion. By decreasing the rolling resistance, the vehicle’s fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are greatly reduced as well, which promotes a fuel efficient drive.

Handling and Controllability

Winter tires must offer excellent controllability over the vehicle during their performance. These tires must firmly grip the road surface and guarantee excellent traction in versatile winter conditions to ensure the driver’s full control over the vehicle.

The Scorpion Winter features a directional tread pattern that closely follows the road surface at all times. This enables the tire to improve the steering responsiveness and the driving stability. The tread’s detailed pattern maintains the ideal surface contact throughout the tire’s performance, increasing the steering response time and accuracy to the driver’s commands, while stabilizing the internal structure against the driving pressure affecting the model. This combination ensures the driver’s full control over the vehicle, guaranteeing a secure driving experience.

The tread design also manages to enhance the braking and maneuvering ability. The shoulder tread block placement, with the detailed, interconnecting tread pattern design, boosts the cornering power. They enhance the number of biting edges gripping the road surface, which enhances the cornering grip and the maneuvering safety. The tread’s special symmetric directional pattern with the detailed siping design shortens the braking distance. These tread elements manage to create friction between the tire and the road surface to improve the braking power and improve the tire’s stopping ability.

If you’re interested in purchasing the Pirelli Scorpion Winter tires, you can find our current stock here.