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2021 Winter Tire Market Overview

Tested size
205/55 R16
Tires tested
49
Disciplines
2

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No test-specific category weights are recorded; this starts with season defaults.

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Fine-tune disciplines 1
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within category · 54% of overall score

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Fine-tune disciplines 1
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within category · 46% of overall score

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Season defaults

Results

Movement is compared with the default calculation, not the published finishing order. Scores use unrounded totals for ranking.

Measured results in the tested size. Arrows show whether lower or higher is better.
ft ↓ft ↓
1 1 98.69 105 100.0 92 97.2
2 2 97.59 110 95.5 90 100.0
3 3 96.43 110 96.1 93 96.8
4 4 96.02 112 93.9 91 98.6
5 5 95.65 110 95.8 94 95.5
6 6 94.91 115 91.2 90 99.3
7 7 93.70 117 90.2 92 97.9
8 8 93.45 115 91.5 94 95.8
9 9 93.19 110 95.8 99 90.1
10 10 93.15 115 91.2 94 95.5
11 11 92.91 117 90.2 93 96.1
12 12 92.82 115 92.0 95 93.8
13 13 92.34 120 88.0 92 97.5
14 14 91.92 118 88.9 94 95.5
15 15 91.62 118 88.9 94 94.8
16 16 91.41 117 90.2 96 92.9
17 17 91.29 118 89.4 96 93.5
18 18 91.01 121 87.2 94 95.5
19 20 90.45 119 88.7 97 92.5
20 19 90.50 120 88.0 96 93.5
21 21 90.26 123 85.8 94 95.5
22 24 89.87 118 89.4 99 90.4
23 25 89.76 119 88.2 98 91.6
24 22 89.89 124 85.2 94 95.5
25 22 89.89 124 85.2 94 95.5
26 26 89.74 124 85.2 94 95.1
27 27 89.48 122 86.1 96 93.5
28 28 88.77 125 84.5 95 93.8
29 28 88.77 125 84.5 95 93.8
30 30 88.18 125 84.5 97 92.5
31 31 88.00 124 84.9 98 91.6
32 32 87.27 123 85.4 100 89.5
33 33 82.24 116 90.9 124 72.0
34 34 81.78 118 88.9 122 73.4
35 35 77.31 123 85.6 133 67.6
36 — — 125 84.0 — —
37 — — 128 82.1 — —
38 — — 131 80.5 — —
39 — — 134 78.7 — —
40 — — 135 78.3 — —
41 — — 135 78.1 — —
42 — — 135 77.9 — —
43 — — 135 77.7 — —
44 — — 140 75.0 — —
46 — — 142 74.3 — —
47 — — 143 73.6 — —
48 — — 145 72.8 — —
49 — — 147 71.7 — —
50 — — 149 70.7 — —

Raw results do not change when you move the sliders. Scroll horizontally to see every discipline.

Leading with these priorities

Bridgestone Blizzak LM005

98.69/ 100

These are calculated scenarios, not new test awards. The published verdict may reflect judgement, close results and factors outside this calculation.

Not ranked: a measurement needed for these weights is missing. Missing results are not treated as zero or redistributed.

Reference tires provide context only. They do not set the benchmark and cannot win the personalised ranking.

Weighting vs real impact

What decides this ranking

The weighting is how much each category counts. The real impact is how much of the difference between the tires it creates: a discipline in which every tire performed about the same barely changes the order, however much it counts.

No weighting is recorded for this test, so the weighting here starts from Tire Reviews’ season defaults, not from the test’s own scoring.

  • Wet 54% 68%
  • Snow 46% 32%
  • Every discipline’s real impact is close to its weighting, so here the weights are a fair guide to what decides the order.
Every discipline 2
DisciplineWeightingReal impact
Wet Braking 54% 68%
Snow Braking 46% 32%

How it is worked out: each discipline’s weighting is multiplied by the spread of its results (the gap across the middle half of the tires, as a percentage of the best result), then shared out so that all the disciplines add up to 100%. It estimates what separates the tires; it is not a second set of weights, and it follows the weights you set.

How your ranking is calculated

Each discipline is scored against the best non-reference tire in the full test field: best ÷ result × 100 when lower is better, or result ÷ best × 100 when higher is better. Discipline scores are rounded to two decimal places, then combined using your weights.

Within-category weights divide that category’s share of the overall score. A 50% wet category and 40% wet-braking share give wet braking 20% of the total. A weight is a scoring priority, not a measure of its actual effect on the ranking: the performance gaps matter too. What decides this ranking ↑

Published joint positions are preserved separately. Calculated positions tie only when their underlying scores match; two displayed scores can look equal after rounding.

A zero weight excludes that category or discipline. At least one active discipline is required, and the disciplines in every active category must have a positive total.

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