The Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato and Porsche 911 Dakar show us just how far tire technology has come in recent years.
The 2023 Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato and 2024 Porsche 911 Dakar featured the first high-performance all-terrain tires we've ever tested. The Lamborghini wore a set of Bridgestone's new Dueler All-Terrain AT002 tires, while the Porsche wore a set of Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain Plus tires. While neither set achieved the on-road grip of more traditional performance-oriented tires, both averaged an impressive 0.96 g of grip at our test track.
The result is a sort of Frankenstein's Monster of an all-terrain. The sidewall is stiff and draws a lot of features from the Bridgestone Potenza Sport summer tire. The tread pattern features siping designed to evacuate mud and rocks, as well as a unique compound that provided an impressive 0.96 g at our test facility. While that can't match the otherworldly grip found on other Huracáns, we were still mightily impressed. To put the figure into perspective, we measured 1.
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