Tire Reviews Tire Tests

Fifty sets of tires, wet and dry braking from 100kph (62mph), and the best 15 tires go through to a full tire test. It's a simple concept, but it always gives us an excellent overview of the current state of the tire market. 

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The new Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 is here, and we’ve been lucky enough to compare it directly to its predecessor - the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup+.

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As usual, the UK magazine Auto Express have waited until October to publish their summer tire test. While the timing of such an article is a little curious, the test itself is excellent.

Auto Express have tested ten different patterns in the extremely popular tire size 225/45 R17. Using a VW Golf 7, Auto Express put the tires through the usual range of wet, dry, noise and fuel tests, and for the first time in over a decade returned to to Goodyears test track in the south of France.

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After a long break, the German tire experts Auto Bild are back with a fresh trackday tire test.
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As this is a Finnish test, the main parameter during this 2013 test of summer tires wet traction, which is useful for those of us in the UK. The stopping distance on wet roads gives a fairly good idea of ​​how well the manufacturer has tuned the rubber composition, design, construction and tread pattern.
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As usual, the Russian magazine Auto Review have delivered a wealth of information with their summer 2013 tire test.

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This years 2013 Auto Zeitung tire test included twelve 215/55 R16 summer premium touring tires. As ever, read the comments attached to the results for the full story!


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54 tires summer touring tires in 195/65 R15, wet and dry braking, measure the distance. A very simple test gives us a very good overview of the market.
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We don't usually analyse the European tire test, carried out by the excellent German ADAC organisation, but this one was too good to ignore.

Not only is it the first year they've used a tire larger than 16", there's several new tires involved in the 225/45 R17 tire test. It's the first time we've seen the new replacement for the Vredestein Ultrac Sessanta in a group test, along side some of it's new mid range stable mates, the Toyo T1 Sport and the Falken FK453, and its the first time we've seen the Continental Sport Contact 5 beat the Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2. Interesting!
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235/35 R19. 305/30 R19. A 997 911 Carrera S and 5 sets of the newest track day tires designed to give you the ultimate driving pleasure. It sounds like our dream test, so quite how we missed its publication last year we'll never know.
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In EVO Magazines second tire test of the year, they're testing 10 of the best tires ultra high performance summer tires in 225/45 R17 on an Audi A3.

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This years Auto Express summer tire test is probably the closest test we've seen, and with all 8 tires within 2% of each other overall even a slight change in the weighting of the test categories would dramatically change the overall result!

As usual, Auto Express have focused on the more popular size of 205/55 R16 91H, with this years test vehicle being FWD Skoda Octavia. The test was conducted at Bridgestones test facility in the south of Italy, and covered the usual thorough array of tests, including 5 wet tests, 2 dry tests plus noise and rolling resistance tests.


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While German tire tests are great at putting raw figures together, they often miss out on some of the subjective feel of the tire. This is where the Russian magazine Auto Review comes into its own, combining great data along with the subjective feel felt when driving on each tire.

In 2012 Auto Review have tested 9 touring tires on an Audi A3 in 205/55 R16 91V. Auto Review selected the newest breed of touring tires, specifically designed to save fuel without sacrificing performance in any other areas, such as wet grip.
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With every new generation of cars being fitted with larger wheels, tires are having to follow suit. While 20 inch wheels and tire were unheard of a few years ago, they are now becoming commonplace enough for the excellent German publication Auto Bild Sports Cars to investigate the options.
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While some tire tests end up testing a seemingly random selection of both new and old tires, Sport Auto seem to have hit the sweet spot with their latest summer ultra high performance tire test.

Using a VW Golf GTI, and testing 235/35 R19 tires Sport Auto took a no-nonsense approach and tested 9 of the newest, and greatest tires on the market, only omitting the brand new Dunlop Sport Maxx RT in favour of its higher performance brother, the Dunlop Sport Maxx GT.


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Traditionally, German based Auto Bild put together some of the best tire tests in the world, and in 2012 they've set a new benchmark.

Not content with picking 15 of the top tires to test, Auto Bild started with 50 of the leading tires in 225/45 R17, and subjected them to wet and dry braking, only putting through the top 15 to this test to ensure the tires on test really are the best of the best.

Subjecting just the top 15 tires from the braking tests to the usual array of handling tests have left the results closer than ever, but with some surprise tires included. Of course, with only 15 of 50 going through there's some surprise ommisions, with the Falken FK453, Yokohama Advan Sport, Vredestein Ultra Cento and Avon ZV5 not even making it to the top 25 of the knockout test.
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