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Swedish automotive magazine Vi Bilägare has conducted a test of eight Nordic friction tyres (studless winter tyres) in dimension 235/60 R18, a popular size for vehicles like the Volvo XC60 which served as the test vehicl...
Autobild are back at it again, this year testing a massive 55 winter tyres in wet braking, then taking the top 33 to a snow braking test, all to find out the safest 20 winter tyres in the wet and snow to put through to t...
Times are hard, and now more so than ever people are asking me what the best budget tyre they can buy is. As these have never been tested against each other properly, I usually don't have an answer, but all that is about...
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 tyre...
This year AutoBild have placed 51 195/65 R15 winter tyres through wet braking tests, with the top thirty tyres also being tested for snow braking performance. Only the top twenty have gone through to the full Auto Bild w...
Fifty winter tyres have been put through wet braking tests, with the top thirty also tested for snow braking performance. Only the top twenty have gone through to the full Auto Bild winter tyre test!
53 summer Tyres for small to medium cars in 185/50 R15. The top 18 go through to the full Auto Bild test. There are the wet and dry braking results from 62mph.
It's the test we look forward to all year, the Auto Bild winter tyre shootout. 2014 sees Auto Bild testing fifty different winter tyres in 225/50 R17. As usual, they test all fifty tyres in wet braking from 50 mph, then...
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