2016 Market Overview Braking Test - Tyre Reviews And Ratings

One VW Golf wearing 205/55 R16 tyres, 50 different tyre patterns, and a lot of wet and dry braking tests gives us a good overview of the market in 2016. The dry test was braking from 62 mph, and the wet from 50 mph.

Pirelli win the test with what must be an updated Cinturato P7 Blue, beating the next best tyre with a huge margin under wet braking. Hankook take second, narrowly beating the Pirelli in the dry and Semerit score a strong third, with Uniroyal once again proving it is an excellent tyre in the wet to take fourth place.

Other notable results are Bridgestone tying with Continental in eighth, Nexen having a solid price VS performance ratio and finishing twelfth, Debica managing to place sixteenth, ahead of some stiff competition, and Toyo finishing dead last, but with a tyre which has since been replaced by the Proxes CF2.

The bottom ten tyres were deemed unsafe by AutoBild, and not recommended for use. The top fifteen scoring tyres go through to the full Auto Bild summer tyre test, which we will have the results of shortly.

Update: The full test of the top 15 tyres can be found here.