2018 Ace 235/45 R18 Summer Tyre Test

Test Summary
Best tyre for dry roads	Pirelli P Zero
Best tyre for wet roads	Kumho Ecsta PS71
The lowest fuel use	Semperit SpeedLife 2
The best dry handling	Pirelli P Zero
The quietest tyre	Falken Azenis FK510 Kumho Ecsta PS71 Hankook Ventus S1 evo2
The best value tyre	Maxxis Premitra HP5
The best wet handling	Falken Azenis FK510

It's not often you see a tyre test where the highest placed premium manufacturer is placed in fifth place, and often test winning Goodyear and Michelin brands are eighth and ninth respectively, but that's exactly what the 2018 ACE / GTU 235/45 R18 tyre test shows.

Sadly, ACE / GTU haven't provided any data to show how they came to this result, instead choosing to score the various tests such as dry braking with a relative score, so we can't be sure exactly how they came to this order.

What we do know is that the test was done using a heavy, all wheel drive, 280 bhp VW Passat Estate, which might have had an impact on the overall results, but it would have still been useful to see things like braking distances and lap times to enable us to make our own judgement.

With this in mind, make sure you look at other tyre tests and user reviews to get a bigger picture of the market place, as the lessons from this test are somewhat limited.

Results

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1st: Falken Azenis FK510
235/45 R18	Total: 150 Dry: 35 Wet: 57 Subjective: 11 Wet Subjective: 9 Rolling Resistance: 16 Noise: 9 Cost: 13 Read Reviews Buy from £128.19
2nd: Kumho Ecsta PS71
235/45 R18	Total: 149 Dry: 35 Wet: 59 Subjective: 9 Wet Subjective: 8 Rolling Resistance: 14 Noise: 9 Cost: 15 Read Reviews Buy from £97.11
2nd: Nokian zLine
235/45 R18	Total: 149 Dry: 37 Wet: 55 Subjective: 10 Wet Subjective: 8 Rolling Resistance: 18 Noise: 7 Cost: 14 Read Reviews
4th: Hankook Ventus S1 evo2
235/45 R18	Total: 146 Dry: 35 Wet: 57 Subjective: 11 Wet Subjective: 8 Rolling Resistance: 15 Noise: 9 Cost: 11 Read Reviews
5th: Continental Premium Contact 6
235/45 R18	Total: 145 Dry: 37 Wet: 55 Subjective: 11 Wet Subjective: 8 Rolling Resistance: 18 Noise: 7 Cost: 9 Read Reviews Buy from £126.59
6th: Maxxis Premitra HP5
235/45 R18	Total: 142 Dry: 38 Wet: 50 Subjective: 7 Wet Subjective: 7 Rolling Resistance: 16 Noise: 7 Cost: 17 Read Reviews Buy from £106.19
7th: Pirelli P Zero
235/45 R18	Total: 142 Dry: 39 Wet: 50 Subjective: 12 Wet Subjective: 8 Rolling Resistance: 16 Noise: 8 Cost: 9 Read Reviews Buy from £156.00
8th: Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3
235/45 R18	Total: 139 Dry: 34 Wet: 51 Subjective: 11 Wet Subjective: 8 Rolling Resistance: 17 Noise: 8 Cost: 10 Read Reviews Buy from £120.69
9th: Michelin Primacy 3
235/45 R18	Total: 137 Dry: 35 Wet: 49 Subjective: 11 Wet Subjective: 8 Rolling Resistance: 17 Noise: 8 Cost: 9 Read Reviews
10th: Semperit SpeedLife 2
235/45 R18	Total: 135 Dry: 29 Wet: 49 Subjective: 10 Wet Subjective: 6 Rolling Resistance: 20 Noise: 8 Cost: 13 Read Reviews Buy from £102.39
11th: Vredestein Ultrac Satin
235/45 R18	Total: 134 Dry: 32 Wet: 49 Subjective: 11 Wet Subjective: 8 Rolling Resistance: 15 Noise: 8 Cost: 11 Read Reviews Buy from £121.99