2020 ADAC 18 Inch Summer Tyre Test

Test Summary
Wet Braking	Pirelli P Zero PZ4
Dry Braking	Continental Premium Contact 6
Wear	Continental Premium Contact 6 Michelin Pilot Sport 4
Rolling Resistance	Rotalla RU01 S Pace Sava Intensa UHP 2
Snow Braking	Continental Premium Contact 6 Cooper Zeon CS Sport Rotalla RU01 S Pace Falken Azenis FK510 Sava Intensa UHP 2 Vredestein Ultrac Vorti Nexen N Fera Sport SU2 Maxxis Victra Sport 5 Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 5 Michelin Pilot Sport 4
Snow Handling	Rotalla RU01 S Pace Maxxis Victra Sport 5 Nokian PowerProof

While ADAC doesn't provide its readers with raw data from their testing, their yearly tyre tests are some of the most influential in the world. This year they've tested sixteen 225/40 R18 car tyres, and twelve 235/55 R17 crossover SUV sizes. For the 225/40 R18 test, there are few surprises.

Continental and Michelin tie for first place with the PremiumContact 6 and Pilot Sport 4, two tyres we've historically seen perform extremely well in testing. It's worth noting that the Continental and Michelin both scored the same in the wear testing, again showing Continental have got on top of wear.

The Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 5 and Maxxis Victra Sport 5 finish a tied third place overall. While it's not unusual to see the Goodyear near the top, the latest range of Maxxis tyres are proving to be really strong in testing.

The "best of the rest" spot was awarded to the Nexen N'Fera Sport, with tyres from Sava, Vredestein, Falken, Bridgestone, Kumho, Nokian, Pirelli and Toyo all close behind. The Pirelli in particular is an interesting result as it was the best in every category during dry testing, but still finished relatively poorly overall.

We'd also love to see more data from the wear testing, as most of the tyres on test were given the same scores, but we'll have to wait for the Auto Bild test due soon for actual numbers.

The full results are below, feel free to ask any questions in the comments, and be sure to come back to Tyre Reviews in the coming weeks for more of the latest summer tyre tests!

Update

We've been sent the actual wear figured, which sheds some light on the poor result for Pirelli overall. ADAC wear tested each set of tyres on the open road for 15,000 km then predicted the total mileage based on starting tread depth and remaining tread before 1.6mm.

Results

ADAC applied the following score weighting to the overall results - Dry 20% / Wet 40% / Noise 10% / Fuel 10% / Wear 20%