Patent ID: 8720513

Claim:
A tire comprising a sidewall surface feature, the sidewall surface feature being based upon a rubber composition, the rubber composition comprising: between 15 and 25 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of rubber (phr) of a highly unsaturated diene elastomer, wherein the highly unsaturated diene elastomer is an elastomer comprising a content of units of diene origin greater than 50 mol. %; between 60 and 80 phr of a butyl rubber; between 5 and 15 phr of an EPDM elastomer characterized as having an ethylene content of between 65 wt. % and 75 wt. % as measured by ASTM D 3900-95, not including diene, and a Mooney viscosity ML(1+4) at 125° C. of between 60 and 80; between 5 and 25 phr of a paraffinic processing oil; and a non-black filler.