Performance Overview
This radar chart shows relative performance across all test categories, with 100% representing the best performance in each category. Reference tires may have gaps where data is not available.
Dry Performance Overview
Dry Braking (M)
Dry braking in meters (Lower is better)
Dry Handling (Km/H)
Dry Handling Average Speed (Higher is better)
Wet Performance Overview
Wet Braking (M)
Wet braking in meters (Lower is better)
Wet Handling (Km/H)
Wet Handling Average Speed (Higher is better)
Wet Circle (s)
Wet Circle Lap Time in seconds (Lower is better)
Straight Aqua (Km/H)
Float Speed in Km/H (Higher is better)
Curved Aquaplaning (m/sec2)
Remaining lateral acceleration (Higher is better)
Snow Performance Overview
Snow Braking (M)
Snow braking in meters (Lower is better)
Snow Traction (N)
Pulling Force in Newtons (Higher is better)
Snow Handling (Km/H)
Snow handling average speed (Higher is better)
Snow Slalom (m/sec2)
Lateral acceleration (Higher is better)
Comfort Performance Overview
Noise (dB)
External noise in dB (Lower is better)
Value Performance Overview
Price
Price in local currency (Lower is better)
Rolling Resistance (kg / t)
Rolling resistance in kg t (Lower is better)
Overall Findings
Based on the weighted scoring from all tests, here are the overall results:
| Position | Tyre | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Michelin Pilot Alpin 5 | 0% | |
| 2 | Hankook Winter i cept evo3 | 0% |
| 3 | Vredestein Wintrac Pro | 0% |
| 4 | Bridgestone Blizzak LM005 | 0% |
| 5 | Dunlop Winter Sport 5 | 0% |
| 6 | Goodyear UltraGrip Performance Plus | 0% |
| 7 | Continental WinterContact TS 850 P | 0% |
| 8 | BFGoodrich gForce Winter 2 | 0% |
| 9 | Falken Eurowinter HS01 | 0% |
| 10 | Nexen WinGuard Sport 2 | 0% |
| 11 | Toyo Snowprox S954 | 0% |
| 12 | Nankang SV2 | 0% |
| 13 | Reference Summer | 0% |
| 14 | Vredestein Quatrac Pro | 0% |
it is the second winter i am having gForce Winter 2 and i am really amazed by his snow performance. It lacks performance at the dry, but what a snow tyre!
Coincidentally, I came here to ask a very similar question, to the question below. I'm really trying to compare the CC2 to the Wintrac Pro for my winter setup. Particularly for wet performance, I assumed that all weather would do better. While there is no direct test, I noticed the Quatrac Pro did better than the CC2 in the wet in autobild all season test. And the Quatrac Pro did worse the the Wintrac pro in the wet in this test. Can I then assume that the Wintrac Pro will do better than the CC2 in the wet?
However if you saying below that quiet updates happen all the time, my assumptions are vulnerable.
Even more so, the older model performance winters tires we get in North America ( Sotto3, Wintrac Pro, PA4 ). I was using the test data from older European tests to make my decisions. Can I no longer assume that the pilot Alpine PA4 or the wintrac Pro, in the American marketplace are the same as what was available in Europe 5 years ago? Tires are complicated man.
Tyres are complicated, even more so when you start getting to tyres vs tires as the same names can be different tyres (North American CC2 is different from European CC2).
It's a headache for me.
Indeed, but in the end, selecting a good tire is not difficult, trying to figure out what the best is for your situation is what's difficult so it's not really much of a problem is it.
"Tyre vs Tire" subtle, clever.
These are some interesting results! In wet braking and wet handling the reference Vredestein Quatrac Pro all-season tyre scores worse than almost every winter tyre. In the all-season test Autobild did earlier, the exact same tyre (Vredestein Quatrac Pro) achieved the best score in wet braking and wet handling beating other all-season tyres and interestingly also beating the (anonymous) reference winter tyre in that test. What would cause that difference? Why is the same tyre in this test worse in wet than the winter tyres and better than a reference winter tyre (and every other all-season tyre) in another test? Would this be because of the size (in this test 18 inch, in the all-season test 17 inch)? Maybe the reference winter tyre in the all-season test was just a shitty tyre? Or the temperatures (22 degrees in the all-season test, unknown in this test)?
That's a good bunch of questions :D
My guess would be that the 17" in the all season test would have received an update, where as the 18" here hasn't yet. But I'll pass on the question to Vred and see what they say.
Of course, only auto bild really know the answer.
That's another possibility I didn't think of! But if the Vredestein tyre received such an update that has a significant impact, would Vredestein not called it Quatrac Pro 2, Quatrac Pro S or Quatrac Pro Evo or something? If I had to guess, I'd put my money on difference in temperature. The all-seasons were tested at too high temperatures (22c) and maybe the winter tyres were tested at or below freezing? Maybe I should ask AutoBild.
Would love to see a test similar to the test you did a few years ago with tyres at different temperatures but then with more tyres. Four of the best tyres in categories of summer, winter and all-season at different temperatures in wet and dry to see when what tyres performance best.
If you do ask Auto Bild let me know if you get a reply!
I'm not sure why names don't change with updates, but it's not uncommon for tyres to get silently updated a number of times in their life, sometimes they're significant updates too. The only way to tell is that the EAN changes, but that's not usually easy to find data.