Pneumatic vehicle tyre with a tread of directional design, having oblique grooves which run towards one another over the tread width in a V-shaped manner, having shoulder-side profile-block rows with shoulder-side profile blocks, having two semi-central profile-block rows with semi-central profile blocks, and having a central profile-positive region comprising a) profile blocks or b) a profile rib, wherein the tread is made up of 50 to 60 pitches (L, M, S) over its circumference, and wherein each pitch (L, M, S) contains a shoulder-side profile block from each shoulder-side profile-block row, a semi-central profile block from each semi-central profile-block row and a portion of the central profile-positive region, wherein all of the profile blocks (1a, 2a, 6) are respectively provided with at least one or multiple parallel sipe(s) (10, 11), and the profile rib, if provided, is provided with multiple parallel sipes (10, 11), wherein the sipes (10, 11) have a width (b E, b E ') of 0.4 mm to 2.0 mm and a maximum depth (t E) of at least 3.0 mm and at most 100% of the profile depth, wherein the following relationships hold true: E Z > E HB E Z > E S where Ez is the number of sipes in the central profile-positive region, E HB is the number of sipes in each individual semi-central profile-block row, and Es is the number of sipes (10, 11) in each individual shoulder-side profile-block row, characterized in that the pitches (L, M, S) have an average circumferential length of 33.0 mm to 40.0 mm, the sipes in the semi-central profile blocks, in plan view, run parallel to the oblique grooves, in variant a), the sipes in the profile blocks, in plan view, run parallel to the groove mid-lines (M SR) of the oblique grooves, and in variant b), the sipes in the profile rib, in plan view, run parallel to one another, wherein the following relationship holds true for variants a) and b): E Z,average = E Z / PB S = 2.0 to 4.0 where PBs is the number of shoulder-side profile blocks of each individual shoulder-side profile-block row. a) profile blocks or b) a profile rib, wherein the tread is made up of 50 to 60 pitches (L, M, S) over its circumference, and wherein each pitch (L, M, S) contains a shoulder-side profile block from each shoulder-side profile-block row, a semi-central profile block from each semi-central profile-block row and a portion of the central profile-positive region, wherein all of the profile blocks (1a, 2a, 6) are respectively provided with at least one or multiple parallel sipe(s) (10, 11), and the profile rib, if provided, is provided with multiple parallel sipes (10, 11), wherein the sipes (10, 11) have a width (b E, b E ') of 0.4 mm to 2.0 mm and a maximum depth (t E) of at least 3.0 mm and at most 100% of the profile depth, wherein the following relationships hold true: E Z > E HB E Z > E S where Ez is the number of sipes in the central profile-positive region, E HB is the number of sipes in each individual semi-central profile-block row, and Es is the number of sipes (10, 11) in each individual shoulder-side profile-block row, characterized in that the pitches (L, M, S) have an average circumferential length of 33.0 mm to 40.0 mm, the sipes in the semi-central profile blocks, in plan view, run parallel to the oblique grooves, in variant a), the sipes in the profile blocks, in plan view, run parallel to the groove mid-lines (M SR) of the oblique grooves, and in variant b), the sipes in the profile rib, in plan view, run parallel to one another, wherein the following relationship holds true for variants a) and b): E Z,average = E Z / PB S = 2.0 to 4.0 where PBs is the number of shoulder-side profile blocks of each individual shoulder-side profile-block row. Ez is the number of sipes in the central profile-positive region, E HB is the number of sipes in each individual semi-central profile-block row, and Es is the number of sipes (10, 11) in each individual shoulder-side profile-block row, characterized in that the pitches (L, M, S) have an average circumferential length of 33.0 mm to 40.0 mm, the sipes in the semi-central profile blocks, in plan view, run parallel to the oblique grooves, in variant a), the sipes in the profile blocks, in plan view, run parallel to the groove mid-lines (M SR) of the oblique grooves, and in variant b), the sipes in the profile rib, in plan view, run parallel to one another, wherein the following relationship holds true for variants a) and b): E Z,average = E Z / PB S = 2.0 to 4.0 where PBs is the number of shoulder-side profile blocks of each individual shoulder-side profile-block row.