PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE

A pneumatic vehicle tyre having a tread which is of directional design and which has oblique channels (11), which run toward one another in a V-shaped fashion over the tread width, as main channels, which in each tread half delimit elongate profile blocks (3) which are arranged in succession in a circumferential direction and which extend as far as the tread edge. The elongate profile blocks (3) are each extended through by at least two grooves (4a, 4b) which run in a straight manner in plan view and which open into the oblique channels (1), wherein the grooves (4a, 4b) that extend in one tread half are inclined in the opposite direction, with respect to the tyre circumferential direction, in relation to the grooves (4a, 4b) extending in the other tread half, wherein those ends of the grooves (4a, 4b) which are situated at the outer side of the tread enter the ground contact patch first during forward travel, and wherein, in each tread half, the angle enclosed between the grooves (4a, 4b) and the circumferential direction decreases from groove (4a) to groove (4b) with increasing distance of the position thereof from the equatorial plane.