Given
97%
while driving a
Volkswagen
(215/65 R17) on
a combination of roads
for 2,000
spirited miles
I was pleasantly surprised with these Giti COMFORT XA1's. I had used the Michelin CrossClimate 2's before which is an amazing tire, but they don't do them in 215/65/17. So we opted for the Manufacturers listed Tire ( our car is a US VW Tiguan SE 4-Motion 2.0 TSI).
Without bedding them in we drove up a mountain in torrential rain. The roads were so steep hairpins/switchbacks that on the way back down the Hill Decent Control kicked it.
Then we jumped on a highway for 150 miles in serious hard driving rain. I was impressed.
Now bedded in, they're great in the dry and the humid heat of Arkansas, the biggest issue here really is potholes.
For WInter I would happily buy a set of steel rims and stick cross climate 2's on, but at the moment these things are much better than I would have imagined. I would certainly buy them again