Following on from the 32 tyre braking shootout, Auto Bild have taken the fourteen best all season tyres to the full test, and included a summer and winter tyre as reference.
As with the Tyre Reviews all season test, Auto Bild have ranked the new Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen-3 as the best all season tyre, not because it was outstanding in one single area, but because it had a rounded performance in nearly all tests.
Auto Bild also tested the new Vredestein Quatrac, which replaces the Quatrac 5. This new tyre performed excellently in the dry and wet tests, and had the best wear of the group, making the Vredestein Quatrac a very good tyre for climates like the UK.
Auto Bild also found the Continental AllSeasonContact to be a well rounded tyre, and the CrossClimate+ strong in the dry, but a little disappointing in the wet.
The updated Bridgestone Weather Control A005 EVO again struggled in the snow, which peanalised it more with the German score weighting than it did in the Tyre Reviews test.
Auto Bild performed drum wear testing and while their mileage predictions seem somewhat optimistic, it's worth scrolling down to the wear section to see the results as it wasn't something Tyre Reviews could test this year.
It's always nice when the data from two different tests, in difference sizes, performed in different conditions are similar, and this is what we have between the Auto Bild results, and our own.
Dry
As usual, the summer reference tyre had the advantage in dry braking, and the dry optimised Michelin CrossClimate+ was a close second.
Dry Braking
Spread: 5.30 M (13.6%)|Avg: 41.71 M
Dry braking in meters (Lower is better)
Dry Braking: Safety Impact: Best vs Worst Tyre
Dry Handling retained the summer tyre's advantage, with the Bridgestone WeatherControl A005 EVO moving up to second place, ahead of the Vredestein and Michelin.
Dry Handling
Spread: 2.40 Km/H (2.6%)|Avg: 89.68 Km/H
Dry Handling Average Speed (Higher is better)
Reference Summer
90.90 Km/H
Bridgestone Weather Control A005 E
90.60 Km/H
Vredestein Quatrac
90.40 Km/H
Michelin CrossClimate Plus
90.10 Km/H
Hankook Kinergy 4S2
90.10 Km/H
Continental AllSeasonContact
90.00 Km/H
Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen 3
90.00 Km/H
Firestone MultiSeason Gen 02
89.90 Km/H
Kumho Solus 4S HA32
89.80 Km/H
Falken EUROALL SEASON AS210
89.70 Km/H
Maxxis Premitra All Season AP3
89.70 Km/H
Nexen N Blue 4 Season
89.00 Km/H
Kleber Quadraxer 2
88.90 Km/H
Pirelli Cinturato All Season SF
88.70 Km/H
BFGoodrich g Grip All Season 2
88.60 Km/H
Reference Winter
88.50 Km/H
Wet
As in the Tyre Reviews test, a number of all season tyres beat the summer tyre in wet braking, with Bridgestone taking the lead.
Wet Braking
Spread: 10.80 M (24%)|Avg: 49.61 M
Wet braking in meters (Lower is better)
Wet Braking: Safety Impact: Best vs Worst Tyre
Wet handling moved the new Quatrac to the top, ahead of the Hankook and Goodyear.
Wet Handling
Spread: 4.00 Km/H (5%)|Avg: 77.45 Km/H
Wet Handling Average Speed (Higher is better)
Vredestein Quatrac
79.50 Km/H
Hankook Kinergy 4S2
79.10 Km/H
Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen 3
78.80 Km/H
Reference Summer
78.60 Km/H
Michelin CrossClimate Plus
78.50 Km/H
Bridgestone Weather Control A005 E
78.30 Km/H
Continental AllSeasonContact
77.90 Km/H
Firestone MultiSeason Gen 02
77.90 Km/H
Kumho Solus 4S HA32
77.10 Km/H
Falken EUROALL SEASON AS210
77.00 Km/H
Kleber Quadraxer 2
76.40 Km/H
Nexen N Blue 4 Season
76.40 Km/H
Pirelli Cinturato All Season SF
76.40 Km/H
BFGoodrich g Grip All Season 2
76.10 Km/H
Reference Winter
75.70 Km/H
Maxxis Premitra All Season AP3
75.50 Km/H
Straight aquaplaning had the summer leading by a small margin over the Vredestein and Hankook.
Straight Aqua
Spread: 7.30 Km/H (8.9%)|Avg: 77.94 Km/H
Float Speed in Km/H (Higher is better)
Reference Summer
81.90 Km/H
Hankook Kinergy 4S2
81.40 Km/H
Vredestein Quatrac
81.40 Km/H
Maxxis Premitra All Season AP3
80.70 Km/H
Continental AllSeasonContact
80.20 Km/H
Nexen N Blue 4 Season
78.40 Km/H
Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen 3
78.20 Km/H
Falken EUROALL SEASON AS210
78.00 Km/H
Pirelli Cinturato All Season SF
77.90 Km/H
Reference Winter
76.70 Km/H
Kumho Solus 4S HA32
76.20 Km/H
Bridgestone Weather Control A005 E
75.80 Km/H
Michelin CrossClimate Plus
75.30 Km/H
BFGoodrich g Grip All Season 2
75.30 Km/H
Kleber Quadraxer 2
75.10 Km/H
Firestone MultiSeason Gen 02
74.60 Km/H
Snow
There was a 5.3 meter spread between the best and worst all season tyres, with the summer tyre stopping significantly behind the group.
Snow Braking
Spread: 42.20 M (158.6%)|Avg: 31.20 M
Snow braking in meters (Lower is better)
Snow Braking: Safety Impact: Best vs Worst Tyre
Kleber and BFGoodrich performed well in snow braking and snow handling, with Bridgestone and Pirelli the worst of the all season tyres in both tests.
Snow Handling
Spread: 15.80 Km/H (37.2%)|Avg: 40.18 Km/H
Snow handling average speed (Higher is better)
Kleber Quadraxer 2
42.50 Km/H
BFGoodrich g Grip All Season 2
42.30 Km/H
Reference Winter
42.20 Km/H
Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen 3
42.00 Km/H
Continental AllSeasonContact
41.90 Km/H
Hankook Kinergy 4S2
41.10 Km/H
Michelin CrossClimate Plus
40.90 Km/H
Vredestein Quatrac
40.90 Km/H
Falken EUROALL SEASON AS210
40.80 Km/H
Firestone MultiSeason Gen 02
40.70 Km/H
Kumho Solus 4S HA32
40.60 Km/H
Maxxis Premitra All Season AP3
40.30 Km/H
Nexen N Blue 4 Season
40.20 Km/H
Bridgestone Weather Control A005 E
40.10 Km/H
Pirelli Cinturato All Season SF
39.70 Km/H
Reference Summer
26.70 Km/H
Cost
The projected wear numbers seemed unusually high, with the new Vredestein reportedly being good for over 75,000kms!
While the numbers might be optimistic, we can focus on the overall order of the result to show us the new Vredestein and Goodyear beat the wear king Michelin, while the Bridgestone and Hankook struggle.
Wear
Spread: 32090.00 KM (42.7%)|Avg: 60380.36 KM
Predicted tread life in KM (Higher is better)
Vredestein Quatrac
75090.00 KM
Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen 3
72680.00 KM
Michelin CrossClimate Plus
70210.00 KM
Falken EUROALL SEASON AS210
67820.00 KM
Firestone MultiSeason Gen 02
67815.00 KM
Continental AllSeasonContact
64890.00 KM
Kleber Quadraxer 2
62750.00 KM
Nexen N Blue 4 Season
60175.00 KM
Pirelli Cinturato All Season SF
60150.00 KM
BFGoodrich g Grip All Season 2
57235.00 KM
Maxxis Premitra All Season AP3
50030.00 KM
Bridgestone Weather Control A005 E
48575.00 KM
Hankook Kinergy 4S2
44905.00 KM
Kumho Solus 4S HA32
43000.00 KM
Calculating euros per 1000km gives us an overall cost for the tyres life, where the cheaper tyres can still be cost effective, even with lower projected wear.
Fuel use is another important factor for a tyre you will use year round, and in this test Bridgestone, Goodyear and Pirelli lead the way.
Rolling Resistance
Spread: 2.26 kg / t (29.2%)|Avg: 8.63 kg / t
Rolling resistance in kg t (Lower is better)
Bridgestone Weather Control A005 E
7.73 kg / t
Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen 3
7.93 kg / t
Pirelli Cinturato All Season SF
7.93 kg / t
Michelin CrossClimate Plus
8.01 kg / t
Continental AllSeasonContact
8.15 kg / t
Firestone MultiSeason Gen 02
8.50 kg / t
Kleber Quadraxer 2
8.55 kg / t
BFGoodrich g Grip All Season 2
8.55 kg / t
Reference Summer
8.59 kg / t
Reference Winter
8.60 kg / t
Vredestein Quatrac
8.88 kg / t
Falken EUROALL SEASON AS210
8.96 kg / t
Maxxis Premitra All Season AP3
8.96 kg / t
Hankook Kinergy 4S2
9.03 kg / t
Nexen N Blue 4 Season
9.67 kg / t
Kumho Solus 4S HA32
9.99 kg / t
19,000 km
£1.45/L
8.0 L/100km
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Annual Difference
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Lifetime Savings
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Extra Fuel/Energy
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Extra CO2
Estimates based on typical driving conditions. Rolling resistance accounts for approximately 20% of IC vehicle fuel consumption and 25% of EV energy consumption. Actual savings vary based on driving style, vehicle weight, road conditions, and tyre age. For comparative purposes only. Lifetime savings based on a 40,000km / 25,000 mile tread life.
Noise
Unlike the Tyre Reviews test, Auto Bild tested external pass by noise, not internal noise.
New all season tyre with exemplary level of performance. Stable driving characteristics in the snow, best aquaplaning resistance, dynamic wet handling, short braking, very low wear.
Convincing all round performance with best winter qualities and very good price-performance ratio. Very good aquaplaning properties, precise steering, low wear, low rolling resistance.
Hi TyreReviews Thanks for great and detailed review, however I am uncertain as to which exact tyres were tested. Example - following your review I would like to buy Goodyear Vector, but in the tested size (205/55/16) they come in a few different versions. Even if I stick to my load/fuel index (which is 91 V) Goodyear still has 3 versions of that tyre - one regular and two XLs. And the difference between them can be seen in noise levels, fuel consumption etc. Two of them have C for fuel consumption (EU label) and one of them has A respectively. So which variation of this tyre exactly is meant in the test? There is quite a difference between A and C fuel indexes so which tyre was better in this respect than Continental AllSeason which is widely considered to have low rolling resistance. But here again, Continental comes in regular and XL variants with C and B fuel indexes - so which Continental do you mean?
I would gladly follow your advice and choose Goodyear but should I go for XL Goodyear tyres? My car allegedly does not need them (Toyota Corolla Verso 1.6 110HP R1 - 2004) but maybe I would benefit from using them? Only XL version has A class fuel consumption. Could you please clarify this topic a bit and specify which tyre versions were used in these tests? Thank you a lot.
Hi Alexandra, this wasn't my test, it was conducted by Auto Bild, they should have the full details on their German website. You can read the tyre reviews all season test here which has the load / speed / DOT noted in the results:
OK - but Auto Bild says that they had tested Goodyear V4season with 91V index and C petrol class, and that petrolwise it was almost the best (2nd place). They claim it was even better than Continental - the only tyre with B petrol class in the test. So how can Goodyear be better in this respect?? Are EU labels unreliable or was Auto Bild test faulty? I would really appreciate your opinion on that.
Different test conditions can change the order, it's not unusual to see magazines having different RR results from the official label scores, in fact it's quite common!
Traditionally the Nokian all season tyres are the most winter bias, so unless you're in the very North of the UK I would suggest something a bit more suited to our climate
Thanks for quick reply :-). Bridgestone Weather Control A005 EVO should be better because is premium grade. Firestone is middle class. Why Bridgestone make better tire from Firestone Company?
It is obvious, I don't understand why cheaper lower class tires (Firestone Multiseason 2) are better than premium tires (Bridgestone Weather Control A005 Evo)?
The score weighting in this test favours snow grip, which the firestone did well in and the Bridgestone did not. The Bridgestone was way better in the dry and wet.
I just found CC² on U.S. web. Looks they improve behavior on snow, but I expected more different pattern. Michelin wants sell out stores in Europe with old specs. probably, or myabe delay duo to EU ecoterorism.
Sadly the planned test has been delayed, but I do know the main improvements of the CC2 are wet and snow performance. It was always dominating in the dry so it should be a really impressive tyre
One big suprise in this test, Vredestein made directional pattern....finally :-D Here is another winter+AS tire test in 205/55/16. Even it's in Slovak language, graph and table are easily understandable. My front Hankooks quit burn out in Slovakian test.
It's probably due to, they had GY Utra Grip 9+ as a referential tire, and all winter and AS tires were compered to GY UG 9+. This new Vredestein look like my next AS tires, because Bridgestone, even on EVO version, did'n improve snow performance and aquaplaning to my acceptable values.
Hi. There is much of unlogic stuff. Kimbo Solus H32. 2020. Worst on test in wear, 2021.first on test in wear. Same tyre...
Tyre companies love putting out big updates into existing tyres and not changing the name. I'm not sure of the logic, but it could be that
Hi TyreReviews
Thanks for great and detailed review, however I am uncertain as to which exact tyres were tested. Example - following your review I would like to buy Goodyear Vector, but in the tested size (205/55/16) they come in a few different versions. Even if I stick to my load/fuel index (which is 91 V) Goodyear still has 3 versions of that tyre - one regular and two XLs. And the difference between them can be seen in noise levels, fuel consumption etc.
Two of them have C for fuel consumption (EU label) and one of them has A respectively.
So which variation of this tyre exactly is meant in the test?
There is quite a difference between A and C fuel indexes so which tyre was better in this respect than Continental AllSeason which is widely considered to have low rolling resistance. But here again, Continental comes in regular and XL variants with C and B fuel indexes - so which Continental do you mean?
I would gladly follow your advice and choose Goodyear but should I go for XL Goodyear tyres? My car allegedly does not need them (Toyota Corolla Verso 1.6 110HP R1 - 2004) but maybe I would benefit from using them? Only XL version has A class fuel consumption.
Could you please clarify this topic a bit and specify which tyre versions were used in these tests?
Thank you a lot.
Hi Alexandra, this wasn't my test, it was conducted by Auto Bild, they should have the full details on their German website. You can read the tyre reviews all season test here which has the load / speed / DOT noted in the results:
https://www.tyrereviews.com...
OK - but Auto Bild says that they had tested Goodyear V4season with 91V index and C petrol class, and that petrolwise it was almost the best (2nd place). They claim it was even better than Continental - the only tyre with B petrol class in the test. So how can Goodyear be better in this respect?? Are EU labels unreliable or was Auto Bild test faulty? I would really appreciate your opinion on that.
Different test conditions can change the order, it's not unusual to see magazines having different RR results from the official label scores, in fact it's quite common!
I am planning to purchase Nokian Seasonproof tyres for my Skoda Fabia estate for use in the UK. Any recent user comments, please?
Traditionally the Nokian all season tyres are the most winter bias, so unless you're in the very North of the UK I would suggest something a bit more suited to our climate
Thanks; I am in the Midlands of England with little snow most winters.
Hey, is this the Vredestein Quatrac 5 or the Pro version?
Neither, it's the new Quatrac
Can you please post a link of it? I cannot find it and here the thread is not shown as well.
It's literally linked in the article https://www.tyrereviews.com...
Is it possible that premium class Bridgestone is worst then middle class Firestone? It's not make any sense cos firestone belongs to bridgestone.
I would be surprised if that was the case with same generation tyres
Thanks for quick reply :-). Bridgestone Weather Control A005 EVO should be better because is premium grade. Firestone is middle class. Why Bridgestone make better tire from Firestone Company?
It doesn't make sense to have two brands at the same level, so they split tier them
It is obvious, I don't understand why cheaper lower class tires (Firestone Multiseason 2) are better than premium tires (Bridgestone Weather Control A005 Evo)?
The score weighting in this test favours snow grip, which the firestone did well in and the Bridgestone did not. The Bridgestone was way better in the dry and wet.
In your opinion as an expert which tire is better? I have a toyota avensis T27 1.8 valvematic. Mainly city driving. Which one would you choose?
This test highlights the differences. One is better in dry and wet and the other in snow, so it depends what you want
Should I be influenced by the fact that one is premium class and the other is middle class, is it a negligible argument
Negligible, not technical argument.
https://www.tirerack.com/ti...
I just found CC² on U.S. web. Looks they improve behavior on snow, but I expected more different pattern. Michelin wants sell out stores in Europe with old specs. probably, or myabe delay duo to EU ecoterorism.
The US version of the CC2 is a slightly different spec to the European version, I'll have more details in Feb :)
And, do you have more info now, about the European Michelin CrossClimate 2 version?
Sadly the planned test has been delayed, but I do know the main improvements of the CC2 are wet and snow performance. It was always dominating in the dry so it should be a really impressive tyre
Any further info on the CC2 / it's launch in Europe?
Sept 2nd :)
Mr Benson, you’ve outdone yourself yet again. Thank you.
One big suprise in this test, Vredestein made directional pattern....finally :-D
Here is another winter+AS tire test in 205/55/16. Even it's in Slovak language, graph and table are easily understandable. My front Hankooks quit burn out in Slovakian test.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
The Quatrac 5 was direction, which this replaces :)
I've seen the video, interesting test, though I feel it's a shame there isn't two seperate videos forAS and winter.
It's probably due to, they had GY Utra Grip 9+ as a referential tire, and all winter and AS tires were compered to GY UG 9+.
This new Vredestein look like my next AS tires, because Bridgestone, even on EVO version, did'n improve snow performance and aquaplaning to my acceptable values.