Below are all the data points for the New VS 4mm VS 2mm All Season Tyre Performance, displaying how each tyre performed across all test categories. The spider chart below provides a complete overview of performance, where one hundred percent represents the best performance in each category. The larger the area covered by each tyre's plot, the better its overall performance.
How to read these charts:
For each test category, data is presented relative to the best performing tire. The direction indicates whether lower or higher values are better - pay close attention to this when interpreting results.
Spider chart cannot be displayed because there are no test categories common to all tires.
Do you know how the new Vredestein Quatrac compares when worn?
I've not seen that tested, sorry
I'm really curious which winter and summer tyres they used as reference. Certainly not class leading because with these numbers why you would ever buy anything else than a CroosClimate+ or Vector 4 S2 seeing that they beat the specialist tyres on their home turf?
We would also love to know what reference tyres were used. In the past, Auto Bild have chosen premium tyres, and I can't see why they would have chosen differently this time.
Really nice real world test. We don't see many tests like this. Also, I would like to point something that's been bothering me for a while. Why isn't there a snow performance category when reviewing all season and snow tyres. I think it would be very useful as it's one of the most important factors when considering snow or all season tyres.
Could you define "snow performance"? Nearly all the tests include snow braking, traction and handling, which is a fairly rounded performance view of the tyres :)
Sorry for not being clearer, I meant when users rate their tyres :). There are the same categories for all the tyres from dry petformance to would you buy again and I think that a snow performance category would be useful for snow and all season tyres.
Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding :)
You are correct, but keep in mind Tyre Reviews is a UK based site, where we only really get 2 days of snow every 5 years. This means many of our reviewers don't get the consistent snow running to make a judgement on how good the tyres are in the snow, so at the time of development I thought it would be best to leave snow performance out.
It's something I'll consider for the new site in 2018 :)
Thanks, I hope you do include it because it would be useful for people outside the UK that use this site like me. Also, good luck working on the new site, looking forward to seeing it.
And people in UK never go abroad for winter/ski holidays ? ! Snow performance is interesting even if it is only very few days a year.
Then you can make it optional or like - not enough data to rate. Whoever has it - rate it, whoever does not feel it can rate it - leave it aside unrated.
Ranking table from test
http://www.testpneumatik.eu...
http://www.testpneumatik.eu...
Great to see tests like this being conducted, there was so much based on marketing and hearsay in the past, now we're starting to get really scientific, useful tests. Long may it continue!
Any chance of a link to autobild? Ill find it but sometimes they can be difficult to find...
It's not yet on the Auto Bild website, I'll link it as soon as it is :)
http://www.autobild.de/arti...
Thank you for linking :)
Cheers Kolemjdouci :-)
http://www.autobild.de/arti...
Thanks for importing and translating this German article with great graphs. Just to add this test was done with tyre size 185/65 R 15 on Opel Corsa...and the new all seasons Contis couldn't make it to the test from timing reasons (not available at the beginning of the test).
Thanks for the added information :) It took a while to workout the best way to graph them!