Hi All.
This sounds interesting, but there are a few things that you need to keep in mind.
-The michelin 255/100R16 is a very heavy Tyre, it is a killer of wheel bearings, half shafts and diff, not to talk about braking performances.
-It wear very quickly, most users on Bremach and Iveco dailly in Europe and Isuzu canters in Australia, don't get a lot of kilometers out of them, 20K km and they are already well done, rarely get up to 40K km rotating them and watchign them carefully. Seems like anything over 100KM/h and they melt like snow.
-The tire is super stiff, made to carry very high loads, and not adapted to the wight of most LC's
-It is very loud on road.
Now for the good points, it is a great tire for african tracks, does very well in sand and not bad in mud. pressure always need to adapted to the terrain but that is also true for most other tires to get the best of them.
-I know a chinese copy of this michelin, called YS22, from yellowsea. It look great, but apparently also run loud and wear in strange pattern as the michelin.
I suspect them to also have copy the tyre body, since it is written single sidewall ply in steel as the michelin. It is used mostly on the military iveco dailly (old version) used by the army and some authorities.
As for the design of a new tyre, that could be great but to make the tyre body more flexible and more adapted to the weights of SUV's and not trucks that might make the side wall too soft to cope with side forces while cornering on the road.
and if designing a new tyre, you might as well rework the thread pattern to make it better on and offroad

. Tough project thought
I will be following this, i like this tyre size and i am sure other would be interested to have this alternative for their SUV's and light trucks, such as iveco dailly 4x4, the new one, the 4wd conversion of a few europeen trucks, the austrlaians like ATW or earthcamper etc etc, there is a small word outside the army's using this tyres and everybody is looking for a good or better and more cost effective alternative to the Michelin.
