Hey all. I realise this much data is a lot to take in, and can only be told in one way. I've tried to be as open and honest as possible with how these tests are scored, but if you want more information I really suggest using the article on the website to make your own buying choice based on the data: www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Article/2020-Tyre-Reviews-Ultimate-Summer-Tyre-Test.htm There's also loads of other tests on the Tyre Reviews website, and user reviews, so you can make the right choice for your own priorities based on multiple information sources :)

This is a RIDICULOUS amount of work. The fact that you were able to condense it down so well is amazing.

After 40+ years of obsessive reading about everything automotive this is THE ONLY KZfaq chanel that is really serious about the subject and I highly enjoy and recommend it. About the test: GoodYear will last longer and is cheaper per km(mile),so it's my favorit. Excellent job mate. P.S. All you jerks trying to do a "car test" on YT,take notice. Driving your neighbour's car around the block or parking lot IS NOT A CAR TEST.

For a long time You have been the best source of tyres' info.

Thank you again for the most interesting tyre tests on youtube.

man, your contribution to savvy consumers is immense. thank you so much for putting in the effort and for helping us make sense of the technical and wide world of tyres!

This is a fantastic test. Thank you for being the most solid "Go-To" tire channel on YT. Your professionalism and presentation of the data is top-notch. I'm sure this project was exhausting, but very well done, sir. Keep it up, Luis

What a helpful test! So much work, glad you made it through that massive project!

This is the only KZfaq channel that I actually clicked the notification bell on. Your delivery is literally the perfect mix of honesty, humility, and expertise in the field. Hats off to Goodyear for the use of the track. That alone says a lot about the confidence they have in their own product. That impresses me more than a .02 second advantage in a lap time.

We own a tyre Shop in İstanbul and we added hankook tyres to the mix after you explained how they are a premium brand from now on. You actually steer my work to the right direction. Thank you.

Great stuff! The world needs this kind of tyre testing! There’s so little of it, and consumers have very little guidance. Up with comprehensive comparative testing of everyday tyres! I especially appreciate the comfort and noise testing! Awesome noise testing setup! Thanks for your efforts!

Just bought a car and spoted this video, im grateful of this time and age that we have this support!

It would be genuinely interesting to see a comparison between a company's sports tyre and their everyday tyre where they overlap in sizes - eg Primacy 4 vs PS4 in 225/45/17 - or Efficient grip vs Eagle. We could see the performance advantage and also what the trade offs are.

Thank you so much for such a thorough test and for testing things that aren't normally done well, like comfort and INTERNAL noise!

Thanks Jonathan for putting the effort in to this for us . Obviously some of us know how slight pressure changes dramatically effect tyre behaviour and feel, and the effect of ambient /surface temperatures . Great video.

This is a service. Seriously. Every time I need to buy tires you are my second stop. First I check out my local shops websites to see what is available, then I read your site and watch your videos to see which tire is for me!!! Thank you

Terrific review! Your choice of Falken in top three bolstered my trust in your judgement. I noticed that Falken was always in the top five in EVERY test whereas others dropped out( except subjective comfort) thx for this info! Well done.

I love the quality of these videos! They're very useful, you cover absolutely everything and leave no questions unanswered! Keep it up, hopefully the channel continues to grow!

You are really my only trusted website/channel for tyres. This is literally the only channel illustrates these data, testings and comparisons. Thanks a lot.

I like and follow Tyre Reviews and I always look on your website when I make my purchase. I'd love to see such a deep comparison for SUV tires and I don't mean off-road tires. SUV's are some of the most often car type on the road now and I became fan of in the last years. Great job!

Your content is simply a tremendous joy to watch. True expert. So much extremely useful information, as usual.

thanks for the great effort producing this informative content. this channel is underrated!

Simply a great reviewer. So dedicated and rigorous, and so enthusiastic about what you do. Keep it up, it’s a joy watching your reviews :)

Fantastically informative video and I now feel even happier having just forked out for 4 x Maxxis Premitra 5 on my V70. I remember going from a set of Goodyear Eagle to Maxxis Sport on a Mondeo ST24 and the difference was unreal. It would lift the inner rear before it would understeer. Their wet weather grip was outstanding too.

You are the best! The only serious tyre reviews! You are great my friend. Keep up your awesome work...

Thanks for doing all that hard work and presenting the results in such an interesting video. These videos are really valuable.

Cheers for all the info! It was good how unbiased you were and showed the pros of each tire! Thankful to know that the Falkner tyres I bought today made top 3

You are the best! Love ALL your videos. Simply brilliant. Thank you. I also appreciate that you do “normal” tires like this video and true performance testing (Cup 2’s, etc). Thank you. Keep up the great work!

Respect at you, the effort, and Goodyear for letting you use their test facility!

This was a really helpful review for a category that doesn't get much love

This is an awesome work compiling this data in one review... Nice work and thanks for sharing

Perfect time for this video! Thank you :)

Another fantastic review. Well done! Idea: Take a favourite tire in the next category up (already reviewed) just to compare to the next level up. Pip pip!

Respect for the solid review! ✅

Again a great video. I love your channel. My girlfriend's car has the Falken ZE310 ecorun. I was pretty impressed by this tires but I wasn't expecting them to be ranked so well.

You are putting so much effort in your videos I appreciate it. I was looking for a tyre review like this one. Big thanks and keep up the good work, cheers.

Bought the Goodyears based on this review (as they're £15 cheaper per tyre than the Contis on my car) and am really pleased with them. Much better than the Pirelli Cinturanos it was on before. Tt'll be interesting to see how they wear. Thanks for an excellent video!

I replaced my tyres two weeks ago! I'm glad my choice was Goodyear Efficientgrip Performance 2, based on TUV test and my experience with the previous gen. Thanks for your amazing work.

I learned so much about tyres from this channel and I am very thankful for that. I bought Nokian Wetproof tyres for my w211 3.2cdi since I got them with huge discount. Previously I had Hankook ventus prime tyres and I was pretty happy with them on dry surface but they were not very good on very rainy days.

Amazing review comparison, thank you!

This just proved my feelings that Falken are really really good! I have Conti SC5 at the front on my Swift Sport and Falken at the back and I can't get them to lose grip, no way for lift-off oversteer, even when trail braking. Same model as in your test, just in 195/45R17

Thanks for the hard work and really detailed video! I'm currently on my Premium Contact 5 for the fourth season, next year I'm getting the Premium Contact 6. 😊

What I love about your vids is how objective you are. Even when not the winner, you say what you felt. For example with michelin, even not the best of the best and pricey, I ended getting them and what I instantly felt is just what you told us here; if you look for comfort in your daily ride, they are the best, and for me that is the main thing as for all the km they will last in my everyday ride I want the best comfort!

Really great job guys 👍 You save from us so much time searching for the best tyre solution. Great full review and really helpful 😀

Falkens have always been a go-to for me. Never had a bad tyre from them personally. The only one I look upwards at from there are Yoko's, but not tested here. Would have been interested to see their position! Great video. Well produced. 😊👍

Man, your tests and particularly subjective details that you bring up are on a totally different level to any known tyre testers including all governmental agencies (like golden standard ADAC, etc.). Really head and shoulders the best tyre review media (not only channel). You deserve much more attention for your splendid content.

Wow, lot of excellent work. ! looking forward to more reviews !

I was not expecting that for an outcome, very interesting, good to see the smaller less well known manufacturers bringing something decent to the table

Hello from Athens. A great video. Well done!!!!

It's amazing how many people haven't heard of Falken. They really are excellent tyres!

Bro, I love your videos. I'm kind of a nerd and I love how you list all the data and how thorough your analysis are. I also really like that you take the time to section and order the whole video. Thanks a lot for the information and the good work!

THIS is the test I’ve been waiting forrrr! Thanks!!! Great great job.

Falkens all the way, still classed as barely mid range but top of the range performance. Have used them now for the last 8 years. Great noise, economy, feedback and overall performance.

Wow, i am really suprised that Hankook wasn't so good in test but the test also convinced me that i should choose between Conti and Falken as my new set of summer tyres Great test, good job :)

Been in the tyre business for about a decade and I cant believe I just found your channel this week...love the content (there is not enough of this anywhere), you seen fair and videos are easy to understand and enjoyable 👍🏻

Such a good video! Thank you for all the work running the tests and compiling everything so neatly.

Real quality review, love your work.

Now all we need is 10 worst car tires, test and review. That would be interesting.

GREAT JOB Johnatan!Outstanding tyre test!Thank You very much for this video!cheers!

Great testing mate. I’m sure a lot of ppl appreciate it!

Great work and thanks to Goodyear for hosting this. Hopefully we see Nexen in the next one...

What a fantastic, informative video. I know it's incredibly difficult and time-consuming to conduct such a test, but I'd love to see a comparison between all-weather tyres.

Best ever. Glad I found your channel.

Brilliant review as always, bags of data and info in an easily absorbed format, but zero bias toward any particular manufacturer. Excellent work, keep it up mate. 😁

Have 18" falkens on my passat. Fantastic imo

Great review as usual, been using Falken for the last 3 years with the Fk510 and now the AS210 and can honestly say that even without being a "premium brand" they are amazing at doing their job. Already had Bridgestone, Michelin and Dunlop fit into my cars, the Falken is cheaper than all of them and does not dissapoint at all. Glad to see them at the top!

I really enjoy these videos, the ultimate Tyre channel.

Wow, thanks so much for your in dept and diligence testing these. On my 2012 Mondeo diesel i had some old Kumho tires and just swapped for UniRoyal Rainsport 5, same dimensions as tested. We live in Ireland and have on average every 2nd day rain and i prefer comfort, rain handling and good value. Clear winner for me especially for your average comfort driver with some little nippiness here and there. Thanks again!

As comprehensive if not better than a good old fashioned print published article but with more personality. Thanks for the review!

Awesome yet again! 🙂 This almost confirms my experience with a few tyres. My dad had Pirelli Cinturato P7s on his car. Was noisier and less smooth and grippy in the wet. Change to Continental Premium Contact and the difference was startling. It was so smooth and quiet. My mom's car came with Michelin Primacys. It had good wet grip but became noisier the older it got. It did make the car feel very darty though. We replaced it with Goodyear Efficient Grip Performance and it is a quiet tyre with good wet grip but the car does not feel as darty as before and it sometimes makes a weird resonant noise depending on surface. It also looks flat even when it is not. Strange but we all noticed it. It bulges out more. As an aside, my car has Pirelli P Zeros which I can not wait to get rid of. Wet grip is awful, it is noisy and makes a lot of noises over ridges and bumps, lots of thumping and when the tyres are cold, the rear wheels just go out of control. It may have something to do with the 640nm of torque but when it is hot it grips much better. Not a fan of Pirelli.

When I buy tires, your website is the first place I check. Thanks a lot for all your effort putting data behind your recommendations. I just wish similar website existed for motorcycle tires.

Great video as always! Really good for picking something up for daily cars and best of all, a very detailed and professionally done testing and reporting. Love this channel! Cheers and keep up with the great work!

Many thanks for your efforts. I've been running Contis on my last 2 cars and find them excellent in all areas bar noise and comfort (they're certainly not bad, but I do notice the noise, especially on poorer surfaces and the ride can be a bit harsh over rougher roads), so your findings match my experience. I'll definitely try a set of Goodyears when I need new ones.

I've used Falkens for a good few years now. The ZE310 performs well above its price point imo. I'll probably get them again as im due now.

i went with your "recomendations" and bought the Goodyear. A little pricey but man do I not regret it. Thank you for your hard work!

Wow - superb review Jonathan! One can only imagine the huge amount of hard work that went into making this extremely informative video. Many thanks - I will be a regular subscriber to your channel from now on.

Well then, my purchase of the Goodyear EfficientGrip Performance 2 tyres can be justified. Amazing dry grip and handling (car feels like it's on rails over my previous Japanese tyres, yet to test it in the wet), also there is a significant increase in comfort when going over microbumps in the road as well as noise levels. Plus they are said to run forever, so basically ticking all my boxes when it comes to what I was looking for out of a tyre. Thanks for the review!

I would have liked the Kenda Emera A1 to be used as a budget option since it got some pretty good reviews so far.

Watched few videos so far from you so now yes I decided to subscribe because indeed this is high quality content!

Thank you very much for your effort I bought the Goodyear efficient pp2 17inch, excellent video and keep up the great work!

After this test I'm sure I want Falken tires!

Good grief, I was literally minutes away from ordering a set of Hankooks for a mk7 Golf 1.4 in that tyre size when this video was posted! I'm thinking the Falkens in 91V flavour or the Goodyears. Thanks for the video and all the effort that went into it, it's very helpful :)

Again just brilliant work. Well done. Thanks

Great info! Got myself new Falken tyres after reading some and trying to compare the differences earlier this summer. Really pleased with them, good to know that I didn't mess up my research. Thanks for having a very informative yet entertaining channel!

Second set of Falkens. Very quite and good braking.

waiting for allseasons tire test like this one!

Thanks mate. Am looking for a new set of tyres right now and your channel was the first place I looked.

Thank you (3 years on) for this superb head to head, I was stuck between the Continental and the Goodyear, I still am. I've had the Conti Ecocontact 6 for 3 years, everything you said was spot on. They have fantastic all round performance which is let down by harsh ride and road noise.

Nexen N'blue HD Plus 205/55/16 second year and still prefect

With the Michelin and the Bridgestone maybe, just MAYBE, they felt so nice and comfy that made you less critical and not really pushing them in a lap. To me that's a nice road tyre. Just a hypothesis on my part. Currently I'm running the Hankook Ventus Prime 3 in 195/50R15 configurations. Felt really true on straight line. Gave me good feedback in corners but that wee bit of understeer, I also feel it.

the best time to drop this review. i was just looking for this category

Bro this test has answered all my nebulous hesitations and misjudgments about tyres in less than 5 minutes! I never expected the Goodyear and the Falken to be so fast, and even less the Falken to be so good at dry braking! And my car is a FWD with probably the same weight class than your Golf so this is golden. Thank you for the huge work. I'm saving this for later... And going for a tire change tomorrow!

I've got a few things on my mind for this test. At first a thing that is hard for you to do but here's a thing that I experienced. Tyres age very differently. We are a big family and have several cars and some of them even use the same tyre size. What I found out is, that Michelin gets extremly noisy when they age although grip is still ok then and depending on the product (Primacy or Alpin etc.) they dry rot pretty fast. Pirelli just loses Grip hideously, the tyres are 5 years old and just skid like mad on a wet road. Also with less profil a Pirelli just looses so much of its perfomance. I had 12 year old Dunlops on another car with the same tyre size and they were just so much better that I almost crashed in the same curve with the Pirelli what would have been a piece of cake for the Dunlops. Goodyear/Dunlop I can actually say not much negative about them although escpecially Goodyear Allseasons have a tendency to create a sawtooth profile which gets very noisy. Also Goodyear Allseasons tend to be to soft for very warm weather. Other than that nothing negative. I miss Nexen here in this test to be honest because I think these are excellent tyres for money and escpecially there Allseason tyre is nothing to laugh about. The wear faster than average but if you have people doing like 5k per year or even less then why not. They change their tyres usually because of age and not of wear and as Nexen is very soft they stay pliable for a little longer although most Nexens are just too young to tell right now as the good products came out in recent years. Winter tyres I can't tell but that's soon be found out. Only thing is they have different product lines with the same name only difference is the tyre label. The less noisy tyres is usually so soft it starts screeching very early at about 40-50% of maximum grip and just gets louder and louder the more you get to a 100% but as they age that gets away. Continental. Well nothing to tell although very pricy nothing negative but went to Goodyear same or sometimes better perfomance for less money. Goodride is better than most people expect from a chinese tyre escpecially if you have experienced a real chinese banger. Then there are Chinese all season tyres which look more or less like a copy of the Hankook Kinergy 4s Gen1 but they're just so much worse. There were three different cars with these and they're just horrible. The first one I can't remember the name but they were horrible enough. The second one was even worse the car had a 2.0HDi with 90Hp and it was no problem spinning the tyres to redline in 3rd gear and wet curves where dangerous it changed between slight understeer and slight oversteer all the time while rocking the car sideways. Horrible!!!! Going the speed limit and stopping on a traffic light which you just barely wouldn't clear on yellow was impossible. You could have fun with them but nooooo. They didn't wear at all. (Peugeot Partner on 16inch) The third one had those imperial ecodriver 4s on them. It's all the same like the second tyre but the car is way less powerful and curves less critical. Still hitting redline in 2 second while spinning from a standstill is no trouble and with a clutch kick even possible in 3rd. When you are stationary on a rutted road and it's wet than it is impossible to get moving without spinning the tyres no matter how carefully you take of. Nonetheless a now 21 year old had a lot of skidding fun with them the last 4 years and drove 70thousans with them and there's still no significant wear on them 2.5mm worn tops. Now the car will go to his younger brother and I bet these tyres will outlive the car. Horrible to drive but perfect for long haul driving. (Toyota Starlet 1998) No ABS or anything. Should include such tyres on a test just for fun. Hope you'll read it and reply. This is just my experience from managing 18 cars and tyres from everybody that is remotely related to me and live scattered 100miles around here.

Continental is always top performance and top range price as well, i mean like here in indonesia continental is not as cheap as bridgestone or goodyear or dunlop but the performance is also represented with the price

I love knowing about tyres so much. Learned a lot in this video. Also really happy to have continental on my car 😁.

As always an excellent review. Because of your tests I bought 4 Falken FK510 and I'm loving it. Thank you for your great work.

As much as I love the test in general, I can't go past the fact that you took 91H from Michelin, whereas others were 'at least' V. Not much of a difference, however... perhaps significant enough to have a slightly better subjective handling notes. Presumably H and V might have marginal differences in terms of sidewalls or even the thread behaviour. Awesome test - really! Just gave more trouble picking a replacement for my Sport Maxx RT. This time I'm aiming at the comfort and am close on picking one of these tested here. Thinking of Primacy 4 or EGP2 I just bumped on the fact that different indexes were used in the test. Only, tiny little imperfection here :) Thanks for the awesome tests mate! Helped me before with previous sets, helping this year with a new one as well.

I am SO glad Uniroyal has finally joined the pack, I always was curious how would it stack up against the usual suspects.

Just the video I was looking for. Thank you!!

Thank you for doing all this hard work.!!!