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2021 AZ All Season Tyre Test

Jonathan Benson
Data analyzed and reviewed by Jonathan Benson
6 min read Updated

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Dry 26%
Wet 37%
Snow 21%
Comfort 5%
Value 11%
Dry 26% · Wet 37% · Snow 21% · Comfort 5% · Value 11%
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Test Results Data

BEST Good Average Below Average
# Tyre Total Score Dry Wet Snow Comfort Value
Braking - Cool M Braking M Handling - Cool s Handling s % Braking M Braking - Cool M Handling - Cool s Handling s Straight Aqua Km/H % Braking M Traction N Handling s % Noise dB % Price Rolling Resistance kg / t %
1 Vredestein Quatrac 98.3% 38.9 3 40.1 77.1 69.2 ★ 98.7% 55.7 56.8 3 90.3 ★ 65.6 77.2 ★ 97.9% 32.8 2152 30.4 3 97.5% 72 97.2% 260 7.9 3 94.1%
2 ▲3 Bridgestone Weather Control A005 EVO 97.9% 38 ★ 39.4 2 77.3 69.7 99.5% 54.7 2 53.4 ★ 90.5 2 66.6 76.4 3 99.2% 33.1 2083 31.8 94.8% 70 ★ 100% 290 8.3 87.9%
3 ▼2 Continental AllSeasonContact 97.4% 39.7 42 77.2 69.7 96.9% 54.9 3 59.7 91.5 65.1 2 76.2 96.9% 32 ★ 2240 ★ 30.4 3 99.5% 71 98.6% 310 7.9 3 89.2%
4 ▼1 Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen 3 97.2% 41 42 76.6 ★ 69.4 3 96.4% 54.6 ★ 59.2 90.5 2 65.5 3 71.4 97% 33.2 2159 3 30.6 97% 70 ★ 100% 295 7.7 2 92.1%
5 ▼1 Michelin CrossClimate Plus 97% 39.8 39.2 ★ 76.9 2 69.3 2 98.7% 55.1 56.3 2 90.6 68 73 97.1% 32.8 2114 30.7 96.7% 70 ★ 100% 315 8.4 85%
6 ▲1 Nokian SeasonProof 96.6% 41.6 41.7 78.1 70.5 95.4% 58.9 62.4 93.5 66 74.6 93.5% 32 ★ 2205 2 30.3 2 99.2% 71 98.6% 260 7.5 ★ 97.5%
7 ▼2 Hankook Kinergy 4S2 96.5% 38.2 2 40.2 77 3 69.8 98.9% 56.4 63.6 94.4 65.9 76.6 2 94.1% 33 2159 3 30 ★ 97.9% 71 98.6% 250 2 8.7 89.4%
8 Falken EUROALL SEASON AS210 95.7% 41.3 42.1 77.4 69.6 95.9% 55.4 65.5 93.9 64.9 ★ 75.5 94.3% 32.3 3 2152 30.4 3 98% 72 97.2% 250 2 8.9 88.1%
9 Maxxis Premitra All Season AP3 95% 39.2 39.7 3 77.4 69.7 98.5% 57.9 64.6 93.3 67 75.7 93% 33.9 2059 31.1 94.4% 72 97.2% 240 ★ 9.2 87.6%
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Vredestein Quatrac
98.3%
Dry 99% Wet 98% Snow 98% Comfort 97% Value 94%
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Dry
Dry Braking - Cool 38.9 M 3
Dry Braking 40.1 M
Dry Handling - Cool 77.1 s
Dry Handling 69.2 s ★
Wet
Wet Braking 55.7 M
Wet Braking - Cool 56.8 M 3
Wet Handling - Cool 90.3 s ★
Wet Handling 65.6 s
Straight Aqua 77.2 Km/H ★
Snow
Snow Braking 32.8 M
Snow Traction 2152 N
Snow Handling 30.4 s 3
Comfort
Noise 72 dB
Value
Price 260
Rolling Resistance 7.9 kg / t 3
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Bridgestone Weather Control A005 EVO ▲3
97.9%
Dry 100% Wet 99% Snow 95% Comfort 100% Value 88%
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Dry
Dry Braking - Cool 38 M ★
Dry Braking 39.4 M 2
Dry Handling - Cool 77.3 s
Dry Handling 69.7 s
Wet
Wet Braking 54.7 M 2
Wet Braking - Cool 53.4 M ★
Wet Handling - Cool 90.5 s 2
Wet Handling 66.6 s
Straight Aqua 76.4 Km/H 3
Snow
Snow Braking 33.1 M
Snow Traction 2083 N
Snow Handling 31.8 s
Comfort
Noise 70 dB ★
Value
Price 290
Rolling Resistance 8.3 kg / t
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Continental AllSeasonContact ▼2
97.4%
Dry 97% Wet 97% Snow 100% Comfort 99% Value 89%
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Dry
Dry Braking - Cool 39.7 M
Dry Braking 42 M
Dry Handling - Cool 77.2 s
Dry Handling 69.7 s
Wet
Wet Braking 54.9 M 3
Wet Braking - Cool 59.7 M
Wet Handling - Cool 91.5 s
Wet Handling 65.1 s 2
Straight Aqua 76.2 Km/H
Snow
Snow Braking 32 M ★
Snow Traction 2240 N ★
Snow Handling 30.4 s 3
Comfort
Noise 71 dB
Value
Price 310
Rolling Resistance 7.9 kg / t 3
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Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen 3 ▼1
97.2%
Dry 96% Wet 97% Snow 97% Comfort 100% Value 92%
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Dry
Dry Braking - Cool 41 M
Dry Braking 42 M
Dry Handling - Cool 76.6 s ★
Dry Handling 69.4 s 3
Wet
Wet Braking 54.6 M ★
Wet Braking - Cool 59.2 M
Wet Handling - Cool 90.5 s 2
Wet Handling 65.5 s 3
Straight Aqua 71.4 Km/H
Snow
Snow Braking 33.2 M
Snow Traction 2159 N 3
Snow Handling 30.6 s
Comfort
Noise 70 dB ★
Value
Price 295
Rolling Resistance 7.7 kg / t 2
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Michelin CrossClimate Plus ▼1
97%
Dry 99% Wet 97% Snow 97% Comfort 100% Value 85%
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Dry
Dry Braking - Cool 39.8 M
Dry Braking 39.2 M ★
Dry Handling - Cool 76.9 s 2
Dry Handling 69.3 s 2
Wet
Wet Braking 55.1 M
Wet Braking - Cool 56.3 M 2
Wet Handling - Cool 90.6 s
Wet Handling 68 s
Straight Aqua 73 Km/H
Snow
Snow Braking 32.8 M
Snow Traction 2114 N
Snow Handling 30.7 s
Comfort
Noise 70 dB ★
Value
Price 315
Rolling Resistance 8.4 kg / t
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Nokian SeasonProof ▲1
96.6%
Dry 95% Wet 94% Snow 99% Comfort 99% Value 98%
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Dry
Dry Braking - Cool 41.6 M
Dry Braking 41.7 M
Dry Handling - Cool 78.1 s
Dry Handling 70.5 s
Wet
Wet Braking 58.9 M
Wet Braking - Cool 62.4 M
Wet Handling - Cool 93.5 s
Wet Handling 66 s
Straight Aqua 74.6 Km/H
Snow
Snow Braking 32 M ★
Snow Traction 2205 N 2
Snow Handling 30.3 s 2
Comfort
Noise 71 dB
Value
Price 260
Rolling Resistance 7.5 kg / t ★
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Hankook Kinergy 4S2 ▼2
96.5%
Dry 99% Wet 94% Snow 98% Comfort 99% Value 89%
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Dry
Dry Braking - Cool 38.2 M 2
Dry Braking 40.2 M
Dry Handling - Cool 77 s 3
Dry Handling 69.8 s
Wet
Wet Braking 56.4 M
Wet Braking - Cool 63.6 M
Wet Handling - Cool 94.4 s
Wet Handling 65.9 s
Straight Aqua 76.6 Km/H 2
Snow
Snow Braking 33 M
Snow Traction 2159 N 3
Snow Handling 30 s ★
Comfort
Noise 71 dB
Value
Price 250 2
Rolling Resistance 8.7 kg / t
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Falken EUROALL SEASON AS210
95.7%
Dry 96% Wet 94% Snow 98% Comfort 97% Value 88%
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Dry
Dry Braking - Cool 41.3 M
Dry Braking 42.1 M
Dry Handling - Cool 77.4 s
Dry Handling 69.6 s
Wet
Wet Braking 55.4 M
Wet Braking - Cool 65.5 M
Wet Handling - Cool 93.9 s
Wet Handling 64.9 s ★
Straight Aqua 75.5 Km/H
Snow
Snow Braking 32.3 M 3
Snow Traction 2152 N
Snow Handling 30.4 s 3
Comfort
Noise 72 dB
Value
Price 250 2
Rolling Resistance 8.9 kg / t
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9
Maxxis Premitra All Season AP3
95%
Dry 99% Wet 93% Snow 94% Comfort 97% Value 88%
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Dry
Dry Braking - Cool 39.2 M
Dry Braking 39.7 M 3
Dry Handling - Cool 77.4 s
Dry Handling 69.7 s
Wet
Wet Braking 57.9 M
Wet Braking - Cool 64.6 M
Wet Handling - Cool 93.3 s
Wet Handling 67 s
Straight Aqua 75.7 Km/H
Snow
Snow Braking 33.9 M
Snow Traction 2059 N
Snow Handling 31.1 s
Comfort
Noise 72 dB
Value
Price 240 ★
Rolling Resistance 9.2 kg / t
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The original test ranking is shown in the # column. Arrows indicate how each tyre moves when your custom weighting is applied.

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Discussion

16 comments
  1. Mark archived

    I struggle to see how a tyre that is 21 ft worse than the best at cool wet braking and is very average at wet handling in cool conditions and is even more average/poor in dry conditions can be the test winner. Yes its snow performance is excellent but this is not a winter tyre test. Even if I lived in central Europe I wouldn't want to risk the Continental in non snowy weather. Surely if you have the sort of climate with winter snow that the Conti excels in you'd go for a winter/summer combo. Just MHO but the Vredestein and Michelin seem much more rounded tyres.

    Your point in another test that a tyre that is poor in key areas can't make that up by excellence in others due to weighting of scores is well made. German tyre tests do seem to err in this regard.

    #7509
    1. TyreReviews Mark archived

      I totally agree, however there is one thing to keep in mind. It's super far behind the Bridgestone, which we know from other tests trades wet grip for wear, so it's a bit of a false benchmark!

      #7510
      1. Mark TyreReviews archived

        The Bridgestone braking results are amazing - only 1.4m off the best across the 5 braking results compared to the Contis 11.1m. Wear is important but only within reason, it's not everything. If I'm doing 6K a year then 40K life is fine as I change every 5-6 years come what may. If I'm doing 20K a year then I want 60K life as it's much more important. Having said that safety trumps wear every time for me.

        The comment by AZ that the Conti convinced across dry and wet surfaces is just not borne out by the results.

        For example the total of the braking distances across the various conditions are:

        Bridge +1.4M!!!!
        MCC +6.0M
        Vred +7.1M
        Conti +11.1M
        Good + 12.8M

        The combined handling times are:

        Vred +1.6s
        Good +1.6s
        Conti +2.9s
        MCC +4.5s
        Bridge +4.9s

        This is where your Tests are so good, Jonathan. I forget which test it was but you marked one tyre down from 3rd where its score put it to 4th due to a poor performance in a key test. Otherwise, in the converse to the German tests, you could end up with a situation in a mild climate scoring system in which snow gets say 5%, where a summer tyre wins an AS test due to its woeful snow performance being totally eclipsed by its much higher scoring superior dry/wet results which would be equally odd

        Basically IMHO there has to be a minimum standard for every key test which a tyre cannot fall behind if it wants to win. ADAC, AutoBild, AZ scoring systems seem to ignore dry/wet provided snow is great. Well it doesn't snow in Bavaria in July?.

        #7511
  2. Timothy Blake archived

    I really wonder why the Vredestein Tyre get´s such a good rating. I mean it really wears of quickly. Which isnt rated here. But all in all the tyre is definitely not better than the allmighty Vectore 4S Gen3!
    Especially if it wears of quicker and loses grip during aging.

    #7400
    1. TyreReviews Timothy Blake archived

      In tests where you don't test wear, you can't degrade a result based on another tests data (though some days I wish you could!)

      #7403
      1. Timothy Blake TyreReviews archived

        This is why I love your Page. I love tyres. Written with a Y not I.
        I can compare differents tests, weigh them and see every tyre compared in bar charts in each specific summary of yours. Your videos are also great.

        Through your page I startet weighing my specific needs on a tyre. This is how I came to a set of summer tyres (for summer) and a set of all season tyres (for winter use).

        #7404
  3. William Read archived

    I am about to purchase all-season tyres for my Skoda Fabia Estate, 185/60R15, 20,000+ miles per annum, and I live in the West Midlands region of the UK. Snow is rare, but temperatures are regularly below 7c in the winter. My driving is leisurely, and I am interested in good fuel economy and ride comfort, but not interested in sporty performance or handling. The Nokian Seasonproof has some excellent reviews; any other ideas?

    #7392
    1. TyreReviews William Read archived

      I'm not sure where you saw excellent reviews of the seasonproof but it only really does well in the snow, which isn't that useful. Check out our all season test video for recommendations but the usual recommendations are the Michelin, Goodyear, Conti or Pirelli

      #7394
      1. William Read TyreReviews archived

        Thanks; I will compare the Vredestein and the Pirelli for local availability and prices.

        #7397
  4. Scour archived

    Vredestein seems to be on a good way actually. The new Quatrac seems to be good, the Ultrac (Summer Tyre) had a good test result in Auto Express and the new Wintrac seems to be also not bad

    https://reifenpresse.de/202...

    #7159
    1. TyreReviews Scour archived

      Their' latest gen stuff is really good, it performed well in the tyre review as test this year

      #7162
  5. Asier archived

    Very nice to see how they perform at different temp and surfaces. Some of them are less influenced by those variables, so it could make the results more aplicable to the real world of roads and countries. Looking forward to see your own test! Which tyre measure have you used for it? ?

    #7102
    2. Scour Asier archived

      Yep, agree. 1st test I see with these parameters. It looks like the all season tyres going to be more all season tyres than winter tyres. Maybe I will get in the next years all season instead of winter tyres, for summer I will stay with summer tyres.

      #7160
  6. bshaftoe archived

    I am thinking about buying an electric car. I know EVs have their own specialized tyres that are usually optimized for very low rolling resistance to increase range as much as possible. Would it be a good idea to fit all season tyres if you'd rather have better grip in all weather even if range suffers? What's the average rolling resistance of EV optimized tyres when compared with the tyres in this test?

    #7097
    1. TyreReviews bshaftoe archived

      If you'd rather have better all weather grip, an all season / winter tyre is a good option :) The Crossclimate 2 is OE on one of the Volvo EVs so they must be getting there in terms of RR :)

      #7098