PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE WITH CIRCUMFERENTIAL CHANNEL

A pneumatic vehicle tire, in particular utility vehicle tire, having a tread () which has a profiling and which has at least one circumferential groove () which runs in encircling fashion in the circumferential direction of the pneumatic vehicle tire and is formed to a profile depth PT. At least over part of the circumference of the pneumatic vehicle tire, at least one circumferential groove () has a cross section perpendicularly to the circumferential direction that is made up of at least two groove portions adjoining one another in a radial direction R of the pneumatic vehicle tire. A first groove portion () is symmetrical with respect to the radial direction R of the pneumatic vehicle tire. The width of said groove portion in the axial direction A of the pneumatic vehicle tire is less than 3 mm and does not vary by more than 10%. A second radially inner groove portion () is made wider in the axial direction A in comparison with the first groove portion (). It has the largest cross-sectional area of all the groove portions. Its cross-sectional area is asymmetrical to the radial direction R, extends on both sides of the radial direction R and has an edge without corners in the bottom region of the circumferential groove ().