The December Car and Driver issue has a review of the best 11 performance tires that I wanted to share as many people always want good reviews of tires that are somewhat professional and independent. The test was done with a BMW 325i on loan from the Tirerack with 225/45/17 tires, which is good as they are a fairly close approximation of our tire size. This type of intense review hasn’t been done by C&D since 1989, so this might be a good thread to sticky. All the tests were done without regard to comfort or road noise, which I kinda disagree with, but nonetheless here are the results.
The formula used to calc the scores was dry performance (x2) for a max of 600pts + wet performance for a max of 300pts + Price for a max of 100pts + treadwear for a max of 100pts = total
The first number next to the name is the dry performance rank, the second number is the wet performance rank, the third is the dry skid pad (g) rating, the fourth the the treadwear grade, and finally, I added the weight of a 225/45/18 size (since that’s our size) to the info below
- Goodyear Eagle f1 GS-D3 – 3, 1, 0.95, 280,
- Continental ContiSportContact 2 – 10, 2, 0.92, 280,
- Yokohama Advan Neova AD07 – 1, 5, 0.94, 180, 26lbs
- Michelin Pilot Sport SP2 – 3, 4, 0.93, 220 (not available in a 225/45)
- Hankook Ventus R-S2 – 8, 8, 0.94, 200, (not available in a 225/45)
- Dunlop SP Sport Maxx – 9, 6, 0.92, 240, (not available in a 225/45)
- Pirelli P Zero Rosso Asimmetrico – 6, 7, 0.92, 220, 21lbs
- Toyo Proxes T1-R – 11, 9, 0.88, 280, 23lbs
- Bridgestone Potenza RE050A – 5, 3, 0.93, 140, 26lbs
- BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KD – 2, 10, 0.95, 200, 25lbs
- Kumho Ecsta MX – 7, 11, 0.92, 220 (not available in a 225/45)
Ok, at this point if you’re a little confused and surprised by their rankings, I was too. What you have to realize here is that the difference in final score between the highest and lowest overall was 5.7% from (990.7 to 1050.4) in other words, the tires were all pretty damn good.
I was surprised to see the Toyo’s and the Kumho’s so low down the list, given the auto-x folks who rave about them. In addition, I think that you have to look somewhat at the comfort of each tire, as most of us drive our cars to work everyday as well as get a little crazy on the weekends. For our cars, I think weight is an important factor, which I why I got the Pirelli’s, and I am quite happy with them.
For shits and grins, I took the dry and wet performance numbers and ranked the tires with a 70/30 split just to see how the numbers changed. Kinda interesting when you take the price and treadwear out of the equation.
- Yokohama Advan Neova AD07 – 1, 5, 0.94, 180, 26lbs
- Goodyear Eagle f1 GS-D3 – 3, 1, 0.95, 280,
- Michelin Pilot Sport SP2 – 3, 4, 0.93, 220 (not available in a 225/45)
- Bridgestone Potenza RE050A – 5, 3, 0.93, 140, 26lbs
- BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KD – 2, 10, 0.95, 200, 25lbs
- Pirelli P Zero Rosso Asimmetrico – 6, 7, 0.92, 220, 21lbs
- Continental ContiSportContact 2 – 10, 2, 0.92, 280,
- Hankook Ventus R-S2 – 8, 8, 0.94, 200, (not available in a 225/45)
- Dunlop SP Sport Maxx – 9, 6, 0.92, 240, (not available in a 225/45)
- Kumho Ecsta MX – 7, 11, 0.92, 220 (not available in a 225/45)
- Toyo Proxes T1-R – 11, 9, 0.88, 280, 23lbs
Ok, thats enough Excel for a Sunday, hope you guys enjoy all this.
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Ça va être dur... 
dont je ne suis pas du tout satisfait, sur la pluie c'est comme si on roule sur une savonette 
) chez qui je vais les acheter ne vends pas du Hankook 
