| Test Summary | |
| Wet Braking |
Continental Premium Contact 6 |
| Dry Braking |
Bridgestone Weather Control A005 |
| Wet Handling |
Continental AllSeasonContact |
| Wear |
Continental WinterContact TS 860 |
| Rolling Resistance |
Continental AllSeasonContact |
| Snow Handling |
Continental WinterContact TS 860 |
As in previous years, Auto Express have included a summer and winter tire as reference. Shockingly, the summer Continental PremiumContact 5 was the best in dry overall, near the best in wet, and fell apart in snow. Things get more interesting when we compare the winter Continental WinterContact TS860 to the all season tires on test.
If you ignore the dry braking result (a break down of all the data can be found on the Auto Express website here), the winter tire was as much an all season tire as the best all season tire on test! While this won't apply to all winter tires, it's a good example of how close a winter bias all season tire, and a full winter tire can be!
Of the all season tires, the Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen-2 just edged out the Continental AllSeasonContact for the test win. Both tires had excellent, balanced performances, with the Continental a little stronger in the dry and snow covered roads, and the Goodyear having the edge in the wet.
The summer bias Michelin CrossClimate+ was the strongest all season tire overall in dry conditions, coupled with the sportiest handling. It matched the best in the wet, and while couldn't quite keep up with the winter-bias all season tires in the snow, it was still an order of magnitude better than the summer tire.
Interestingly the Bridgestone A005 again scored well in the braking tests, but as over tests have started to show, it doesn't quite have an all round ability like the best all season tires on tests, largely due to a very weak snow performance and high rolling resistance.
Results
Sadly Auto Express don't provide any raw data, instead scoring the best in each test one hundred percent, and working down from there. You can check out the full test on the Auto Express website here.
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