The Korean company Hankook at the car show Essen Motor Show summed up the contest for the best conceptual bus, which was held at the University of business administration, engineering, and design in Pforzheim. The requirement for the participants to create unusual and at the same time, real-world projects tyres of the future and to deal with complex issues of sustainability, recycling, efficiency tires. The competition was prepared 12 futuristic projects, showing how new technologies can change in the future conventional tires.
The winners of the fourth contest Hankook Design Challenge became Samir Sadikhov (which we already know, as a talented young designer of Azerbaijan Samir Sadikhov) with draft tyres for racing cars of the Dakar. This project gives the company a chance to move in completely Hankook new category-manufacturer of tyres for racing cars participating in the Dakar race.


1. Dakar 2. Intelligent protector 3. Winter project

The idea of the project is to develop special wheels, capable to adapt to extreme conditions, with minimal risk of damage, that will allow the driver to gain a temporary advantage in the race. In the second place, the jury put Andreas Hartle bus model with the slits, and protector of the third Mining became Lucy Lee with the transformed bus to drive on snow and ice track Winter project. Hankook to embody these projects in real life in the form of pilot models. They exhibited on the stand at the exhibition Hankook Essen Motor Show.