Over the past 5 years Tire Reviews has slowly been growing in size, and with now over 700 tires and 50,000,000 miles of reviews, all the data you’ve provided has allowed our tire categorisation to get a whole lot better.
Historically tires 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 tires across a single brand, when your trying to sort nearly 1000 tires over 43 brands things can get a little confusing.
The solution
To combat this, we have spent the last few months working with the tire manufacturers to re-categorise all our tires into no less than 37 unique categories, a first for the world of tires! For example, if you are looking for the fastest extreme performance tire for your Porsche, you can head over to the Passenger Car Max Performance Summer Tire category and see what’s been rated the best. Want a high performance all season tire? No problem! Looking for the best all terrain tire for your 4x4, we've got you covered. You get the idea.Looking to the future, Tire Reviews aims to share this data with any tire manufacturer or retailer who would like to use it, meaning finding the right tire 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 Tires 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 Tire Brands", whereas the the "Premium Brand" has only six manufacturers. Looking at the Vredestein website they seem to promote themselves as offering premium tires but you have them as mid-range. Toyo are known for their track tires so seem special to me.
Is the allocation based on number of tires in the range, tire price, number of tires sold? Or is it just a rough categorisation to give people a starting point?
The "Top Tire 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 tire. Tire 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 tire, as certain tires are only meant to appear in certain markets.