Fitted as original equipment on my 17 plate Golf Mk7 GTD. I'm not a boy racer so the grip in both wet and dry is more than adequate for my purposes. I do like to accelerate though, and this is beginning to show as relatively high wear on the fronts, but probably no more than any other tire exhibit. The big disappointment however is the road noise on anything other than the smoothest of surfaces - to be frank, it's often b****y awful and can turn what should have been a pleasant drive into an ordeal. Unless you are deaf, do not buy these tires!

This tire is not good at all. OK, grips well in dry roads and its handling is OK, but that's all. It's by far the most uncomfortable and noisy tire I ever tried on my VW Golf 7, 1.6 TDi R-Line and the handling on wet roads is at least scary. Buy something else.

I'm driving 6,000 miles (18,000-26,000). I am not satisfied. He does a lot of skating and doesn't reassure the bends. Also very hard. The tire life is long and the tread depth is very good but the handling is below my expectations. I won't buy it again.

+Amazing grip, never lost traction.
+Even at hard launches the brand new clutch is slipping while the tires are launching the car.
+The tire is definitely quieter than Pirelli p zero and and offer much better wet grip.

- The only possible con of the tires is that their supreme performance is very dependent on the pressure.

Great in the dry, lethal in the wet. Loose traction suddenly, few scary moments!

Not at all a bad tire, but the difference in dry vs. wet is surprisingly large. The grip loss in the wet is sudden. (Maybe the Runflat design is partly to blame for that.)

I think the RE720 (yes that was LONG time ago) and the 050A were much better in the wet, not much more grip, but much more progressive slip. It's all about confidence and control.

S001 will stand up to a trackday, which was part its predecessors brief too. That makes it a good choice over some other UHPs, which tend to overheat and never really recover.

Oh, if you have lots of motorway miles, the noise is quite intrusive.

Really good tire in the warm and dry, you can really push your car round the corner and the tires just grip. I cannot say the same for the wet, even half throttle will loose grip in a corner.

long braking distances in wet, can lock the front brakes with moderate amount of braking as tire loss grip on wet roads, not a comfortable tire, can feel the smallest bumps in the road. tires feel numb at times, will not buy again, fuel economy not great as well

Purchased these for all 4 alloys on my Audi S3 at a very good price, had ContiSport6 before.

I have to say I have never seen the traction light flash on my car with the Potenza's on, these tires are very good in the rain and dry, even at high speed around corners.

Launch controlled my car several times with these tires on and it handles it very well.

Can't really complain especially when they are giving lifetime guarentee on the tires, would purchase these on my next set for my Golf GTD.

Handling is simply not what i expect, a series of disappointing results.
The rear was more likely to move. It doesn't feel connected at all. My last set of tires was pirelli p zero nero and they were much better.
Next tires will be michelin pilot sport 4 or continental sport contact 6.

Had these installed on my 1998 SLK 230. The car is on lowering springs and Koni yellow shocks, therefore the tires a bit more diagonally placed. These tires wear pretty quickly on the inside, but that has something to do with the fact that my car is lowered. So maybe I am not the right person to say anything about the wear on these tires.

One thing I can say something about is noise, these tires are bit noisy. After that I replaced these Bridgestones with Michelin PS2's, I noticed that those tires were a lot quieter. The Michelins also absorb the bumps in the road far better I must say. The Michelins also seem to be more stable during high speed cornering, that doesn't that the Bridgestones handle badly, high speed stability and grip is fine. But the Michelins are better.

Overall I would recommend this tire if you can get it cheaply. Otherwise I would recommend the Michelins.

To many side wall cracks ,, dodge tires