Tire Reviews Tire Tests

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Tire Reviews Tire Tests

253

Summer Tire Tests

85

All Season Tire Tests

340

Winter Tire Tests


Total Tests: 511

Most Tested Brand: Michelin (488 tests)

Most Tested Tire: Dunlop Winter Sport 5 (63 tests)

Michelin Alpin A4 Auto Bild, well known for their excellent tire tests, have recently tested 11 premium winter tires and 1 premium all season tire in the popular 225/45 R17 to create their 2011 winter tire test.

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With many of the major big brands introducing new winter tires for the 2011 season, winter tire tests have never seen so interesting. This year, Automobile Club Europe [ACE] tested 8 winter tires in the popular 205/55 R16 91H size on a VW Golf.

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Due to two unusually harsh winters, interest in winter, or cold weather tires has never been higher in the UK. The benefits are now being understood - while winter tires naturally work wonders in snow, they also work extremely well any time the average temperature is below 7c, often out performing summer tires even in the dry. During early morning commutes, where the road temperature is around freezing they can offer noticeable more grip than a summer tire in the same conditions, allowing you to make progress safely, and can stop over 5 meters shorter than the equivalent summer tire from 62mph.

Read on for our 2011 winter tire buying guide!

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Goodyear UltraGrip 8 In 2011, the excellent German Auto Zeitung have tested 14 winter tires throughout Europe. Running the popular 205/55 R16, fitted to a BMW 3 Series, the tires have been thoroughly tested on snow, wet roads and in dry conditions.
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It's always nice to have British magazines covering tire tests, and no magazine does a more thorough job than Auto Express. This years "total tire guide" covers 10 tires across 10 disciplines giving a total of 100 data points to absorb!

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Tire Reviews presents possibly the least scientific tire test in the world - our first "long term subjective touring shootout."


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Nokian V In 2011, Auto Motor Und Sport tested 11 tires on a VW Golf GTD in the popular size of 225/45 R17. As with previous years, AMS subjected the tires to the usual mix of wet, dry and rolling resistance tests.
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The amazing American tire retailer tirerack.com has just published it's latest tire test, "Clash of the Titans: Testing Two New Max Performance Summer Heavy Hitters".

On test are 4 of the leading brands. Bridgestone is represented by the brand new S04 Pole Position, Continental has the ExtremeContact DW, Michelin brings the new Pilot Super Sport and Pirelli puts the P Zero to test.

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Continental Premium Contact 2 Finnish magazine Engineering World have tested 15 of the latest tires in 205/55 r16.

The test includes all the latest ECO tires and regular touring tires from premium, mid range and budget manufacturers.
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Sport Auto have tested seven 245/40 R18 Max Performance Summer Tires on an Audi TT RS, but which will dominate in this dry bias test?

To ensure conditions were suitable for a summer tire test, Sport Auto visited a Bridgestone test track in Italy. Taking part in the test are some of the newest tires to market, including the new Michelin Pilot Super Sport, Pirelli P Zero, Bridgestone Potenza S001 and Toyo T1 Sport, along with the existing Nokian Z G2, Dunlop Sport Maxx GT and Sava Intensa.
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If a broken car is a sign of a good tire test, breaking a Focus RS twice, then giving up and using a Sirocco R means the latest Max performance tire test from Russian magazine Auto Review should be the best tire test yet. Fortunately, it doesn't disappoint.

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Hankook Ventus S1 evo The excellent German magazine Auto Bild have just published their 2011 max performance summer tire test covering 10 tires. Auto Bild decided to use the the popular 225/40 r18 tire size, fitted to vehicles such as the Golf GTI, Focus ST, Audi S3, Octavia RS and the test car used, the Mazda3 MPS.


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Vredestein Sportrac 3 With Spring in the air, ADAC have just published their massive 2011 Summer tire test covering 33 tires! This year they've chosen to test two smaller sizes of tires, 195/65 R 15 V and 175/65 14 T. While these tire sizes are slightly more relevant to the European market compared to the big-wheel obsessed UK, it's still a good indication of who's doing well in 2011.


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Pirelli P Zero Auto Zeitung always put on a good tire test, and this year they’ve tested 14 different 225/45 r17 tires on an Audi A3, including new tires from Goodyear, Pirelli, Sava, Nexen and Firestone.

The results are closer than ever, with both the dry and wet performance scores hotly contested. Overall, the new Pirelli P Zero wins thanks to it’s incredibly high wet grip and strong scores in every category. The new Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2 places second thanks to it's class leading braking and low rolling resistance, while the Goodyears sister tire, Dunlop Sport Maxx TT rounded out the top 3 due to it’s sporty handling and excellent grip throughout.

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It's not often you get the opportunity to try different tires on identical cars one after the other, so when we were presented with 3 Audi A7's wearing 3 different max performance summer tires in 255/35 19 there was only one thing on our mind - a subjective handling shootout!

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Dunlop SP Winter Sport 3D As proven in this video, owning a 4x4 off vehicle is no substitute for being on the correct tire during the winter months.

Auto Bild have recently tested 8 tires in 215/65 r16 on a Volvo XC70 for dry, wet and snow performance. As always the results were close amongst the premium brands, with Dunlop just beating Continental to the top spot.
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2010 marks the start of the UK automotive magazine industry taking winter tires seriously with the largest weekly magazine publishing the 2010 Auto Express winter tire test.

Auto Express launched its interest of winter tires with style, testing 6 premium winter tires against 13 rigorous tests and included an all season and summer tire for comparison. All tires were tested in 205/55 r15 on a VW Golf.






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Goodyear UltraGrip 7 Plus In 2010 Auto Motor Und Sport [AMS] visited Sweden to test ten 205/55 r16 winter tires. On test were the usual mix of premium and mid range tires, including the TireReviews favourite Nokian WRG2.

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2010 EVO FWD Tire Test For the second time in 2010 EVO have published an excellent summer tire test. The first test, published in July concentrated on a RWD MX5 running 205/45 17 tires and was won by Continental with the ContiSportContact 3. In this tire test EVO have used a Renaultsport Megane 250 Cup wearing massive 235/35 r19 tires to test 9 ultra high performance / max performance tires...







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