Over the past 5 years Tyre Reviews has slowly been growing in size, and with now over 700 tyres and 50,000,000 miles of reviews, all the data you’ve provided has allowed our tyre categorisation to get a whole lot better.
Historically tyres have been categorised into a few simple categories such as “high performanceâ€, “touring†and “track dayâ€. While this is fine for comparing a handful of tyres across a single brand, when your trying to sort nearly 1000 tyres over 43 brands things can get a little confusing.
The solution
To combat this, we have spent the last few months working with the tyre manufacturers to re-categorise all our tyres into no less than 37 unique categories, a first for the world of tyres! For example, if you are looking for the fastest extreme performance tyre for your Porsche, you can head over to the Passenger Car Max Performance Summer Tyre category and see what’s been rated the best. Want a high performance all season tyre? No problem! Looking for the best all terrain tyre for your 4x4, we've got you covered. You get the idea.Looking to the future, Tyre Reviews aims to share this data with any tyre manufacturer or retailer who would like to use it, meaning finding the right tyre will be an easier, more consistent task for all.
As always if you have any comments or questions please feel free to post below and here’s to the next 50,000,000 miles of reviews.
Link: New Tyres by Category
Great website. Lots of interesting stuff here.
The thing I don't fully understand is how/who categorises the brands i.e. Premium, Mid Range, Economy and Budget. So for example, at the bottom of this page there are ten entries under "Top Tyre Brands", whereas the the "Premium Brand" has only six manufacturers. Looking at the Vredestein website they seem to promote themselves as offering premium tyres but you have them as mid-range. Toyo are known for their track tyres so seem special to me.
Is the allocation based on number of tyres in the range, tyre price, number of tyres sold? Or is it just a rough categorisation to give people a starting point?
The "Top Tyre Brands" section is based on website interest.
Regarding the classification, it's just a rough guide, however there are 6 brands clearly understood to be "premium", and that is reflected on the site. The mid range brands are fairly well defined too, however the difference between economy and budget can start to blur in some cases!
What a wonderful website! Great concept well executed & am thrilled to find this resource. The one important piece of info missing though is 'country of manufacture', as some of the bigger brands (eg.Dunlop) manufacture in several countries - your tests might be German product while Australia might source the Japanese equivalent. I wonder if there is any way your sources could be persuaded to include this data? Thx & Good work; Ross Mc.- Melb. Aust.
Hi Ross,
Thanks for the kind words.
While country of production would be a nice feature, unfortunately you can often find 2 or 3 different production countries on the same tyre. Tyre companies also move production around depending on factory work loads, which would make it nearly impossible to keep track off.
One thing we are working on is having an "intended market" feature on each tyre, as certain tyres are only meant to appear in certain markets.