TOUGH RUBBER

WE’VE THROWN A SET OF GOODYEAR WRANGLER MT/RS ON THE RANGER.

- Dean Mellor

When I picked up the 4X4 Australia Ranger in Melbourne for our impending Tassie adventure, it had been fitted with a new set of Goodyear Wrangler MT/R Kevlar muddies, which was reassuring since I was expecting to encounter a fair bit of mud in the island state.

The Wrangler MT/R Kevlars are the same LT285/70R17 size as the Maxxis RAZRs that were fitted previously, those tyres having done a tough stint on the Ranger on its 2019 trip through the Flinders Ranges. Mounted to the Ranger’s good-looking KMC XD Addict 2 alloy rims, the new MT/Rs certainly look the part thanks to their aggressive open-block tread pattern that wraps around on the sidewalls. The MT/Rs also feature a somewhat unique asymmetric tread design, which Goodyear claims benefits both “aggressive traction” when driving off-road and “superb handling” when driving on-road.