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Auto Bild has published the full results of its 2026 all-season tyre test in 225/45 R17, a size fitted to compact cars such as the VW Golf, Audi A3, Seat Leon, Skoda Octavia and Hyundai i30. Thirty tyres started in a wet...
Auto Bild has opened its 2026 all-season tyre test with a braking qualifier. Thirty all-season tyres in 225/45 R17, a size fitted to compact cars such as the VW Golf, Audi A3, BMW 1 Series and Mercedes A-Class, were brak...
Auto Bild Sportscars has tested twelve winter tyres in 225/45 R18, the size the two test cars, a BMW M235i xDrive Gran Coupé and a BMW M240i, wear from the factory, and one also found on cars such as the Alfa Romeo Giuli...
The Automobilclub von Deutschland (AvD) has tested 15 winter tyres in 225/45 R17, the size fitted to compact cars such as the Audi A3, VW Golf and Skoda Octavia, working with the test company TEMPOTIRE and an Audi A3 as...
AutoView have put seven summer tyres from the upper middle of the market head to head in 225/45 R18. This is the class Michelin created with the Pilot Sport 4 and that everyone has since piled into: tyres pitched below t...
AutoView bought nine of Korea's 2026 all-season comfort tyres and ran them through the same set of tests to answer a single question: is a more expensive tyre actually a better one? The field spanned three price grades -...
ADAC has tested 16 all-season tyres in the popular 185/65 R15 small-car size, scoring each one for dry, wet and winter safety alongside running costs and environmental impact. Only a single tyre earned an overall "good"...
AutoView's latest tyre test takes a deliberate aim at the middle of the Korean market. With prices for premium summer and all-season tyres climbing, plenty of drivers are looking for something that costs less than a Mich...
AutoView's 2025 extreme-performance shootout takes three of the most aggressive R-compound-flavoured summer tyres available in the Korean market - the Nexen N'Fera SUR4G, the Bridgestone Potenza RE71RS and the Yokohama A...
Vi Bilägare tested ten summer tyres in the 205/55 R16 size - still the best-selling tyre dimension in Sweden by a wide margin, nearly double the sales of the next most common size on the aftermarket. The test focused on...
Auto Bild's 2026 summer tyre test covers the 245/45 R19 size - a common fitment on upper-mid-size cars including the BMW 5 Series, Audi A6 and Mercedes S-Class - and puts 50 tyres through an initial qualifying round befo...
While technically this is the second tyre test of the 2026 summer tyre testing season, I always think of the AutoBild mega test as the true start to the summer tyre test season. It's our first opportunity to see how 50 t...
The ACE Auto Club Europa has published the first summer tyre test of 2026, kicking off this year's test season. Ten tyres in the 225/40 R18 size were tested across wet and dry braking, aquaplaning resistance, handling on...
For 2025 Auto Bild All Rad (the SUV and 4x4 version of the magazine) have tested eleven tyres in the 215/55 R17 size. This dimension is commonly fitted to compact SUVs and crossovers, including models such as the VW T-Ro...
Vi Bilägare evaluated eight different tyre models in the popular SUV size of 235/60 R18. The test, featured in issue number 12, utilized a Volvo XC60 AWD as the primary vehicle to assess performance on ice, snow, and bot...
The 2025 Autobild All Season tyre braking shootout put 30 of the latest all season tyres in the 'sporty' 225/40 R18 size through dry and wet braking tests.As usual the top 15 from this test will go through to the full Au...
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