Touring Tyre Tests

Wybór Kierowców has published a test of 6 all-season tyres in size 215/55 R17. The test included two budget segment tyres, three mid-range tyres, and one premium tyre. 

For the 2025/2026 winter season, Autožurnál TV has conducted a comparative test of seven winter tyres in the 215/65 R17 size, using a Volkswagen Tiguan as the test vehicle.

The test included two new models for the season: the Michelin Alpin 7 and the Barum Polaris 6. These were tested against the Tomket Snowroad SUV 3, Lassa Competus Winter 2+, and Ceat WinterDrive SUV. The lineup also featured the Kormoran SUV Snow and Riken SUV Snow, two tyres from the Michelin group with identical tread patterns, both produced in Serbia.

Finnish magazine Moottori have recently compared eight 205/55 R16 tyre patterns that sit in the midrange price category!

While midrange tyres are cheaper than their premium rivals, they're not the cheapest tyres available on market, so in theory should still provide a reasonable level of performance, just offering better value.

In what might be a first for a main publication, ADAC have tested sixteen 215/65 R16 C cargo / commercial tyres designed for vans, people carriers and vehicles such as the popular VW Transporter.

Sadly, ADACs findings aren't overly positive, with no tyre pleasing the testers overall due to a general lack of wet performance.

The first summer tyre test of 2016 is a curious one. ACE, the Automobile Club Europa, are often first to publish their regular summer tyre tests, but this year their first tyre test exclusively features midrange tyres.

Testing ten 195/65 R15 tyres on a VW Golf, ACE argue that the most important consideration for 90% of motorists is price, which is why they've chosen to tests tyres as cheap as 35/euros per tyre.

This is part 2 of the 2010 European Summer Tyre Test - 185/65 r15. To read the reaction, and see the results of tyres sized 225/45 R17 please read Part 1
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