While looking into new tires this article surfaced. Found some interesting tires on the market... Never see them yet apparently they are out there. Some are wierd and some are so so to me. They should make tires that smell like Nitro methane when one smokes his tires.... The following information is from Edmunds...

Besides providing more silence (a contradiction in terms?) the future of tires may be in sight, sound and smell. For example, BFGoodrich introduced the "Scorcher," a tire whose treads are ribbed with yellow, blue and red. Kumho offers a tire that, on burnouts to church or the grocery store, smoke in different colors. Kumho's new Ecsta DX "aroma tire" models smell good, too. When the Mrs. revs up her Rabbit, dumps the clutch and sends its tires spinning on an 18-inch squiggle, the Ecsta DX will "burn" scented oils. Kumho has yet to debut an Old Spice aroma tire for men, but expect a low-profile Chanel No. 3 Ecsta DX for fans of the late great Dale Earnhardt Sr.

Consider, too, the frontier of all-weather tires, specifically those produced by Nokian, Finnish maker of Hakkapeliitta all-winter Tyres, tested 186 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Nokian makes i3 "informative, intelligent and interactive" winter tires employing "eco-studs" — not lean, green, dream dudes, but hard tread extrusions that bite into snowpack for better traction. Nokian also produces an avant-garde "canola oil tread compound" for better snow traction and "road snoop pressure watch," which "warns the driver of slippery road surfaces...over a radio receiver without the need to install any extra equipment in the vehicle."
Likewise, you may be writing a $1,200 check to Michelin when you realize the rubber on your hi-pro tires has joined the pavement 12,000 miles after your Ferrari or hot-rod Chevy Cobalt left the showroom floor. High-performance tires owe their grip to the softness of their tread — and soft "NASCAR style" tread wears out fast. Thus, to become your neighborhood Jeff Gordon may be expensive. (Never put tough-grip racing tires on a soft suspension — it's a recipe for a rollover.)

 

The colored smoke is awesome, i've never smelt the smelling ones though...

I don't think all this is needed for snow tires though, if you have a decent 4WD vehicle and know how to drive you really shouldn't have an issue..

Same with FWD or RWD, winter tires do wonders.

 

It be fun to have a set, but id go threw em to quick

 

I bet you would to!! I suspect there would also be colored rubber particles thrown all up into your wheel wells and they would be a bugger to remove...........

 

Yeah deff would have to tape up the wheel wells & everything so it be easy to clean

 

Those red ones last forever. The things were designed for burning out, and a local guy with a Mustang had them. I swear he just couldn't finish them off.

 

I've seen a few cars around town here that have the ones that spew colored smoke. The local tire place I get my tires from has been selling the scorchers for a while now. Never saw them on a car yet.

Why would I want to be Jeff Gordon? j/k

 

A colored burnout would be hard to resist. I would be stomping the gas every stop light.