Continental VanContact Eco is a fuel-saving summer tire designed for light trucks and minivans, produced by the German tire maker under the slogan “Comfortable driving, maximum efficiency”. A 2019 model. Features that make the Continental VanContact Eco stand out against the background of some of its analogues include fuel efficiency, long tread life, and noiseless ride. This tire improves on the performance of its predecessor – ContiVanContact 200 – in terms of increased resistance to wear, improved handling response and braking performance, as well as by lower rolling resistance. The innovative rubber compound Continental Van Contact Eco reconciles such seemingly conflicting characteristics as wet grip and rolling resistance. The tire perfectly adapts to all road inequalities, which minimizes the energy loss. Special additives and resins in the rubber compound formula stabilize the tire’s road behavior, which ensures overall reduction of rolling resistance and improves the tire’s efficiency. The profile of the VanContact Eco consists of four stiff ribs of equal width, which helps to evenly distribute the pressure in the contact area, reducing abrasion, and improving handling response under high loads. The optimized construction of the main circumferential and diagonal drainage grooves ensures not just quick evacuation of water from the Continental VanContact Eco contact patch and stability of traction on wet pavement, but also better noise absorption, which results in a quieter ride.