Originally Posted By: edyvw
turboseize said:Well, they surely know how to make great winter and decent summer tyres. They even build an all-wheather tyre that consistently beats win
Nokian all weather beat TS860 in winter test?
Brits and winter driving? Tell me you are joking.
Not quite: in their 2015 and 2016 all-sason tyre tests, AutoExpress also ran the winter and summer tyre test winners, as to have a refrence to compare the all seasons tyres' performance against. Turns out the Nokian all-season (Wheatherproof) was actually better than the reference winter tyre on snow and in aquaplaning situations, while the winter tyre beat the Nokian all-season on dry roads. So the Nokian all-season is a better winter tyre than the test winning winter tyre, and the Conti winter tyre a better all-season than the Nokian all season... the lines between all season and (central european) winter tyres are becoming blurry indeed.
Keep in mind we are talking about "european" winter tyres here, who are more likely to see wet roads than snow and which have to work in a temperature window from -10 to +20° and thus have to have at least some all-season capabilies. Nordic compound winter tyres are a completely different beast, obviously far superior in the white stuff, but next to useless in a typical central european winter.
Keep also in mind that the typical european all season looks mostly like a winter tyre (with the only exception of the Michelin CrossClimate), while most american all seasons look like summer tyres...
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