A shoulder land portion includes a main body land portion formed between a thin groove extending in a tire circumferential direction on a tire width direction inner side of a ground contact end and a shoulder main groove, and the main body land portion includes a contact region adjacent to the shoulder main groove provided along the tire circumferential direction and a non-contact region provided along the tire circumferential direction between the thin groove and the contact region. The contact region contacts a road surface in a normal load state, and the non-contact region is recessed to a tire radial direction inner side from a tread surface. The non-contact region does not contact the road surface in the normal road state, and when a length of the non-contact region is W1 and a length of the main body land portion both along the tire width direction is Rw, 0.2Rw≤W1≤0.5Rw.

The tire (10) for a passenger vehicle has an axially central portion and axially lateral portions. The axially central portion and each axially lateral portion satisfies just one of conditions I, II, III: I—the portion comprises no transverse cut (90, 90′), II—the portion comprises N transverse cuts (90, 90′) arranged in such a way that π×OD/N≥40 mm, III—the portion comprises N transverse cuts (90, 90′) arranged in such a way that π×OD/N≤24 mm, condition I or II being satisfied by the axially central portion or by an axially lateral portion, and condition III being satisfied by the axially central portion or by an axially lateral portion.

A pneumatic tire includes a first main groove on the outer side in the vehicle width direction of the equatorial plane, a second main groove closer to the equatorial plane than the first main groove, a third main groove on the inner side in the vehicle width direction of the equatorial plane, a fourth main groove farther from the equatorial plane than the third main groove, a first narrow groove between the third and fourth main grooves, and a first groove portion extending in the width direction between the first narrow groove and the fourth main groove and opening at one end to the fourth main groove. A relationship between the first main groove width G1, the third main groove width G3, and the fourth main groove width G4 satisfies 1.05≤G1/G3≤1.25, 1.10≤G4/G3≤1.30, and G3<G1<G4.

A tread pattern of a pneumatic tire includes one center continuous land portion and two intermediate continuous land portions that are divided by four circumferential main grooves and that are not provided with lug grooves. Edges on both sides of one center main groove include groove chamfered portions having a chamfered width changing in the circumferential direction in a zigzag shape. In the regions of the intermediate continuous land portions, first sipes extending inward in the lateral direction from shoulder main grooves of the main grooves, which are positioned on outer sides in the lateral direction, are provided. The first sipes each include a sipe main body portion having a constant distance between sipe wall surfaces on a sipe bottom side and a sipe chamfered portion inclined so that the sipe wall surfaces are open toward the tread surface.

A tread pattern of a pneumatic tire includes one center continuous land portion and two intermediate continuous land portions that are divided by four circumferential main grooves and that are not provided with lug grooves. Edges on both sides of one center main groove include groove chamfered portions having a chamfered width changing in the circumferential direction in a zigzag shape. In the regions of the intermediate continuous land portions, first sipes extending inward in the lateral direction from shoulder main grooves of the main grooves, which are positioned on outer sides in the lateral direction, are provided. The first sipes each include a sipe main body portion having a constant distance between sipe wall surfaces on a sipe bottom side and a sipe chamfered portion inclined so that the sipe wall surfaces are open toward the tread surface.

A pneumatic tire comprises at least four main grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction on the tread surface, circumferential land portions and shoulder land portions partitioned and formed by these main grooves, and designation of a mounting direction with respect to a vehicle, wherein a plurality of lug grooves is formed at intervals in the tire circumferential direction in each of the plurality of circumferential land portions, extending in the tire width direction, communicating with the main groove on the vehicle inner side, not communicating with the main groove on the vehicle outer side, and terminating within the circumferential land portion.

A tire 2 includes a tread 4 on which at least three circumferential grooves 24 continuously extending in a circumferential direction are formed, and a belt 14 located radially inward of the tread 4. A ratio of a center stretch, at a center portion of the belt, indicated by the follow/Mg formula (2) to a shoulder stretch, at an end portion of the belt, indicated by the following formula (1) is not less than 1 and not greater than 3, and the shoulder stretch is not less than 1%.

(Shoulder stretch)

100×(Rsa−Rsb)/Rsb  (1)

(Center stretch)

100×(Rca−Rcb)/Rcb  (2)

A pneumatic tire is provided with tread rubber that forms a contact patch; and a belt layer which is disposed toward the interior in a tire radial direction from the tread rubber. A shoulder lug portion is provided with a narrow groove that partitions the shoulder lug portion into a main body portion and into a sacrificial portion. A plurality of concavities are open toward both the contact patch at the main body portion and the groove side face, wherein innermost ends in the tire width direction of the respective concavities are disposed so as to be at the same location in the tire width direction as an outermost end in the tire width direction of the belt layer or are arranged toward the exterior in the tire width direction from the outermost end in the tire width direction of the belt layer.

A tire has cap rubber that forms a contact patch. The cap rubber has a plurality of lugs. A shoulder lug, which among the plurality of lugs is that which is located outwardmost in a tire width direction, has a narrow groove that extends in the tire circumferential direction and that partitions the shoulder lug into a main lug portion toward the interior in the tire width direction, and a sacrificial lug portion toward the exterior in the tire width direction; and low-modulus rubber, for which stress at a given elongation is lower than that of the cap rubber, is arranged at a corner where the contact patch at the main lug portion and a groove side face toward the interior in the tire width direction which forms the narrow groove intersect.

A tread pattern of a pneumatic tire includes continuous lands provided in half treads on first and second sides, circumferential main grooves, and sipes having a chamfered configuration. The sipes extend inward in a lateral direction from the circumferential main grooves and are closed in the middle of regions of the continuous lands. An edge shape of each of sipes on the first side includes an extending portion extending inward in the lateral direction constantly in an extension direction and a bent portion that is provided to be joined to an end of the first extending portion and that has the edge shape bent from the extension direction of the first extending portion to a direction close to the circumferential direction. Every portion of the first extending portion and the bent portion of the sipes are provided with a main body portion and a sipe chamfered portion.