New VP Tires, Geolandar X-AT 1.9" & X-MT 2.2"

[HumboldtEF]

Vanquish just teased 2 new tires on their livestream, they are up on their site now in the tire section (its not in new releases yet). They're all Yokohama Geolandar tires, the X-AT the X-MT

X-MT is a 2.2 and 5.1" tall x 1.75" Brandon had designed these to go on the H10

Yokohama Geolandar X-MT 2.2 Tires (2) Red Compound - 5.1"

The Vanquish Products 2.2 Yokohama Geolandar X-MT Tire. The extra soft Vanquish Products RED compound offers excellent performance right out of the package. Specifications: 5.1” tall x 1.75" wide x 2.2" Wheel bead diameter Vanquish Products Super Soft RED Compound
 Rubber Medium density open...

vanquishproducts.com

X-AT is a 1.9" and 4.5" tall x 1.4"

Yokohama Geolandar X-AT 1.9 Tires (2) Red Compound - 4.5"

The Vanquish Products 1.9 Yokohama Geolandar X-AT Tire. The extra soft Vanquish Products RED compound offers excellent performance right out of the package. Specifications: 4.5” tall x 1.4" wide x 1.9" Wheel bead diameter Vanquish Products Super Soft RED Compound
 Rubber Medium density open...

vanquishproducts.com

Its awesome to see a 4.5" tall option! Brandon mentioned this was to fill a size gap between 4.25" and 4.75" which is what I've always believed. Hopefully other manufactures follow suit.

With all the split and siped lugs These look like they'd be super easy to cut lugs on if you wanted to go more aggressive.

 

[Fallen]

I'm always happy to see excellently detailed all terrain tires. I see a lot more offroad trucks on A/Ts than M/Ts.

 

[JimrC]

Might have to look at these 4.5 tires

 

[JatoTheRipper]

The new tires are fugly! I can see the X-MT performing, but Proline MT Baja Pro X and the JConcepts Tusk are so much better looking to me.

The Geolander X-AT is less ugly, but it's more of an A/T tire that wouldn't work well here.

The Geolander M/T is a better looking tire though. I still prefer the Falken Wildpeak M/T or even the VXT2 tread pattern more than these.

 

[bgredjeep]

The x-mt just looks like a remake of the Nitto mud grappler, which was a terrible tire. You could hear them coming down the road a mile away.

Coincidently, 5.1" is exactly how tall my vxt2s were when new.

 

[Col_Sanders]

The AT looks good from a scale perspective but its not something I'm interested in.

The X-MT is an ugly tire that does look like a knock off Nitto Mud Grappler. Dont really see a whole lot of them in the 1:1 world. I wonder how those will perform.

 

[pwjm]

The AT looks good from a scale perspective but its not something I'm interested in.

The X-MT is an ugly tire that does look like a knock off Nitto Mud Grappler. Dont really see a whole lot of them in the 1:1 world. I wonder how those will perform.

Bar treads tend to out-perform other styles in RC crawling from my experience - but yeah, the scale factor is questionable.

 

[cooper_xl]

the X-AT looks amazing... rant: Vanquish should also list dimensions in metric

 

[HumboldtEF]

the X-AT looks amazing... rant: Vanquish should also list dimensions in metric

I find this simple site for converting metric to imperial super handy, it does fractions and decimals. I use it all the time: Convert MM, CM to Fractions of Inches

 

[JatoTheRipper]

I find this simple site for converting metric to imperial super handy, it does fractions and decimals. I use it all the time: Convert MM, CM to Fractions of Inches

FYI web search sites like Google and Bing do that as well. Just type something like convert "2mm to inches".

I have been using this free Convert app since college. I install it on every personal and work machine.

Convert for Windows

Convert is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert many of the most popular units.

joshmadison.com

 

[bgredjeep]

Or you can just do basic math. 1" = 2.54cm = 25.4mm.

 

[JatoTheRipper]

Or you can just do basic math. 1" = 2.54cm = 25.4mm.

That's an easy conversion to remember. I don't remember 1 gallon to 1 liter hence the app.

 

[twade984]

As always, I’m glad to see new tire releases, and particularly licensed tires.

While I agree the MT’s are kind of ugly, they are at least scale and licensed. I just saw a set of these in real life (40x13.50r20) and they are just as unappealing haha

The proportion of the at’s on the 1.9” seem like they are bigger than 4.5” imo. If their other tires are any indication they are probably 4.75”+

 

[Col_Sanders]

As always, I’m glad to see new tire releases, and particularly licensed tires.

While I agree the MT’s are kind of ugly, they are at least scale and licensed. I just saw a set of these in real life (40x13.50r20) and they are just as unappealing haha

The proportion of the at’s on the 1.9” seem like they are bigger than 4.5” imo. If their other tires are any indication they are probably 4.75”+

Without foams, the VXT2s I have are very similar in height to my other 4.75s. When you stuff the Vanquish 4.75" dual stage foams in, thats when they really get huge.

 

[cooper_xl]

Or you can just do basic math. 1" = 2.54cm = 25.4mm.

I'm used to those conversions. I'm a machinist. But it would be easier to just see the dimensions clearly without doing math or using a converter
I'm not lazy and I don't want to start a metric/imperial war here on RCC


It is not hard for VP to do that. I assume they send the 3D models to Taiwan to manufacture the tires and they use metric there

 

[twade984]

It looks like I stand corrected….

 

[bgredjeep]

Without foams, the VXT2s I have are very similar in height to my other 4.75s. When you stuff the Vanquish 4.75" dual stage foams in, thats when they really get hughuge

I got similar results with both vp, and ci foams. Once they broke in a bit they are back to 5". Brand new they were almost exactly the same height as my hyrax lp (5.25") tires.

 

[Goro Majima]

I have the 4.5 Geolandars on the way. They'll be going on the Marksman Tundra with a new set of wheels.