Test Summary | |
Best tyre for dry roads | Bridgestone Potenza Sport |
Best tyre for wet roads | Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 6 |
The best tyre overall | Bridgestone Potenza Sport |
The quietest tyre | Hankook Ventus S1 evo 3 |
As always, we will steer you towards the Auto Express website to see the full details of the test, but we do have a few comments to make.
The overall results are below, and once again you can find the full details on www.autoexpress.com. The scores are weighed as 50% wet, 40% dry and fuel economy 10% with the emphasis on handling and braking in the dry and wet.
1st: Bridgestone Potenza Sport | |
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| The Potenza Sport lead in the dry and wet with the sharpest handling and shortest braking distances. Read Reviews Buy from £78.99 |
2nd: Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 6 | |
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| The Asymmetric 6 was only slightly behind the Potenza Sport in the dry and wet, but had a better rolling resistance and the best aquaplaning resistance on test. Read Reviews Buy from £87.89 |
3rd: Maxxis Victra Sport 5 | |
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| The VS5 had good handling and levels of grip in the dry and wet. Read Reviews Buy from £79.00 |
4th: Hankook Ventus S1 evo 3 | |
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| The S1 Evo3 excelled in wet braking and had a good subjective handling result, but struggled a little in the deep water aquaplaning testing. Read Reviews Buy from £75.00 |
5th: Falken Azenis FK520 | |
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| The new Falken Azenis FK520 performed well in the dry and in the aquaplaning testing, but couldn't match the best in the wet grip tests of wet handling and braking. Read Reviews Buy from £101.20 |
6th: Pirelli Cinturato P7 C2 | |
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| The Cinturato P7 C2 was the only touring tyre in a group of UHP tyres, and performed as you would expect. It couldn't match the outright grip of the performance tyres but had the best rolling resistance on test. Read Reviews Buy from £92.89 |
7th: Austone Athena SP 7 | |
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| The Austone SP7 finished last in every grip test, and took 18 meters longer to stop the test car than the winner, which is a huge margin. As always, cheap tyres are cheap for a reason. Read Reviews |