2022 Summer Tyre Market Overview

Dry Braking	▲Nokian PowerProof: 35.7 M	▼Imperial Ecosport 2: 40.3 M
Wet Braking	▲Bridgestone Turanza T005: 27.5 M	▼Atlas Sport Green 2: 36.6 M

Without fail, each year German publication Auto Bild provides the most comprehensive overview of the summer tyre market by testing a huge amount of tyres ability in the dry and wet, in order to work out which twenty tyres deserve to be tested in their full summer tyre test.

For 2022, Auto Bild have tested 50 tyres in the most popular tyre size in Europe, 215/55 R17.

All 50 sets of tyres have their wet and dry braking results below, with the shortest 21 (luckily for Continental) combined braking distances progressing to the full test, which will be on the website shortly.

The rather unusual tyre size has created some interesting results, with Nokian taking the top spot in dry braking, and the new Kumho Ecsta HS52 and Hankook Ventus Prime 4 placing second and third.

Wet braking had the usual Bridgestone Turanza T005 at the top, with Nexen also performing well.

Other performances worth noting, the Uniroyal RainSport 5 struggled in the wet which is unusual for the "rain tyre", and Goodride made it into the top 20 on merit!

Full results below

Dry

Wet

Results

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1st: Bridgestone Turanza T005

215/55 R17

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2nd: Hankook Ventus Prime 4

215/55 R17

2022 Summer Tyre Market Overview

Test Summary

Dry

Wet

Results

1st: Bridgestone Turanza T005

2nd: Hankook Ventus Prime 4

3rd: Kumho Ecsta HS52

3rd: Vredestein Ultrac

5th: Falken ZIEX ZE310 EcoRun

6th: Nokian PowerProof

7th: Dunlop SportMaxx RT 2

8th: Michelin Primacy 4

9th: Toyo Proxes Comfort

10th: Nexen N Fera Primus

11th: Fulda SportControl 2

12th: Sava Intensa UHP 2

12th: Kleber Dynaxer HP4

14th: Maxxis Premitra HP5

15th: Debica Presto UHP2

16th: Goodyear EfficientGrip Performance 2

17th: GT Radial FE2

18th: BFGoodrich Advantage

19th: Laufenn S Fit EQ+

20th: Goodride SA57

21st: Continental EcoContact 6

23rd: Yokohama BluEarth GT AE51

24th: Tomket Sport 3 Series 3

25th: Cooper Zeon CS8

25th: Infinity Ecomax

25th: Starmaxx Ultra Sport ST760

28th: Firestone RoadHawk

28th: Hifly HF805

30th: Tyfoon Successor 5

31st: Roadstone Eurovis Sport 04

33rd: Delinte DH2

34th: Uniroyal RainSport 5

35th: General Altimax One S

38th: Zeetex HP2000 vfm

39th: Aplus A607

41st: Semperit Speed Life 3

42nd: Tracmax X Privilo TX3

42nd: Viking Protech Newgen

44th: Barum Bravuris 5HM

45th: Lassa DriveWays

47th: Imperial Ecosport 2

48th: Rotalla RU01 S Pace

49th: Firemax FM601

50th: Atlas Sport Green 2

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