Tire Test

The choice of your tires can significantly affect your driving safety. The good news is that during the two summer tire tests, which were performed by the ADAC experts in sizes 235/55 R17 and 225/40 R18, most of the participants delivered quite a convincing performance. Totally, 28 models were tested: 12 designed for SUVs and minivans, and 16 designed for golf-class passenger cars, which are covered in this article. In 2020, ADAC first tested 18-inch tires. Recently, large wheels have become increasingly popular, and the size picked by the expert team — 225/40 R18 — is among the ten top bestselling sizes for summer tires.
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Having sorted out the 15 tire sets in size 205/55 R16, the ADAC expert team switched its focus to tires of a larger diameter. The second summer tire test of the 2021 season involved 17 tire models in size 225/50 R17, which can be fitted on middle-class cars, from Audi A4 to VW Passat. The German experts had a positive general impression of the tested tire models, even though in some of the disciplines the tires showed a wide scatter in their results, and one model even ended up with a «not recommended» verdict.
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Mostly «good» and «satisfactory», as well as one «average» and one «bad» verdict — these are the results of the fresh big summer tire test performed by the German ADAC motoring association, which involved a total of 32 tire models. The experts traditionally tested tires of two sizes, this time around these being 205/55 R16 (Germany’s best-selling one), and 225/50 R17.
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The experts from the German motoring publication tested eight models of 18-inch tires for everyday life. The German magazine Gute Fahrt tested summer tires in size 245/40 R18, designed for such cars as Audi A4 Avant, which was also the car that was used in this test. Tires of eight brands were tested — Bridgestone, Continental, Falken, Goodyear, Nokian, Pirelli, Toyo, and Vredestein — which got rated in the range from «very good» to «satisfactory», i.e. there were no obvious outsiders this time around.
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The comparison summer tire test season 2021 is now officially open! The first to announce their test results for the upcoming summer were the experts of the German motoring publication Auto Zeitung, who tested ten tires in size 225/40 R18. The test disciplines were carried out in September 2020 at the Bridgestone «European Proving Ground» in Italy at a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius. All the tires were tested using one type of car, and in duplicable conditions. The test car was a new Seat Leon 1.5 eTSI, with 150PS, and a dual-clutch transmission. The event was officially partnered by the B2C trading platform Saitow AG, which also supplied tires for the test.
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Big summer tire test 2021: more than 50 tires in comparison. Summer tire test with 53 205/55 R 16 tires: five models are exemplary, five more are good - but 14 models have far too long braking distances!
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The new test performed by the German experts involved light-truck tires in the size 235/65 R16C designed to year-round use. In 2020, Auto Bild has already published the results of tests involving a few tire categories; now it’s time for all-season models designed to be installed on light trucks and minivans. This test involved eight tire models of various price brackets, all of them sporting a 3PMSF sign on their sidewalls. The tires were tested in various conditions on snow, wet and dry pavements; the test car was VW Crafter with a 600-kilogram load.
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The new test performed by the German motoring publication involved sports summer tires with a 19-inch rim diameter. Yet another summer tire test by Germany’s Auto Bild Sportscars magazine was conducted on the testing track in Uvalde, Texas, USA, used for tire testing by motoring publications from all over the world. This time around, the test involved sports tires in two sizes — 245/35 R19 and 265/35 R19 — designed to be installed respectively on the front and rear axes of sports cars, such as Mercedes C63 AMG, which was used as a test car.
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The German magazine performed a comparative test of all-season tires designed for light trucks and minivans. European winters are becoming increasingly warmer, due to which the popularity of the so-called «all-season» tires stays on the rise. Last year, these tires occupied 18% of the German light truck and minivan tire market, which comes as no surprise because these tires spare the vehicle owners the time and money, otherwise spent on the seasonal tire swap. At the same time, all-season tires are winning the market not at the expense of winter tires, whose share in sales is still 50%, but at the expense of summer tires, whose market share dropped to 32%.
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All-season tires were invented to relieve car owners of the burden of seasonal tire swap. Sounds tempting, doesn’t it? But how safe? This is what the experts of the Auto Bild Allrad magazine decided to find out, having tested 11 models of all-season tires in the standard size 215/60 R16 99V, which is popular among German owners of mid-size sedans and compact crossovers. Below, we are offering to you the results of the test, which were published in the December issue of this popular auto magazine.
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Do you want to know what tyre is best for every day, real world driving? In this test we take eleven of the very best 205/55 R16 tyres on the market, plus a well regarded budget tyre, to see exactly what tyre performs best in the dry, wet, comfort, noise and rolling resistance tests!
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After completing a series of comparison winter tire tests of the 2020 season, the Motor magazine experts focused on all-season tires. Which manufacturer was able to design the best-balanced tire for various weather conditions? In order to answer this question, the experts from the Polish motoring weekly purchased from independent tire dealers about a hundred all-season tires of different brands in size 205/55R16, which can be fitted on such popular passenger cars as Audi A3, Ford Focus, Opel Astra, Renault Megane, Skoda Octavia, and Volkswagen Golf, and tested their performance on snow, as well as on wet and dry pavements.
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With the promise of one tyre to work in all conditions, all season tyres are a rapidly growing market segment. To find out which of these all season tyres is best, and whether they can match a summer and winter tyre, the 2020 Tyre Reviews all season tyre test has tested nine of the best 225/45 R17 all season tyres on the market, and included a summer and winter tyre as reference. Each set of tyres will be tested for their levels of grip in the dry, wet and snow, have their noise and comfort levels assessed, and their rolling resistance measured, meaning this test should be a complete overview of a tyres performance. Unfortunately we were unable to conduct wear testing for this test, but it's something we will be working on for next years testing. The overall score weighting was based on 30% wet, 25% dry, 25% snow, 10% noise and comfort, and 10% rolling resistance.
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