2026 AvD Winter Tire Test
The Automobilclub von Deutschland (AvD) has tested 15 winter tires in 225/45 R17, the size fitted to compact cars such as the Audi A3, VW Golf and Skoda Octavia, working with the test company TEMPOTIRE and an Audi A3 as...
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The Automobilclub von Deutschland (AvD) has tested 15 winter tires in 225/45 R17, the size fitted to compact cars such as the Audi A3, VW Golf and Skoda Octavia, working with the test company TEMPOTIRE and an Audi A3 as...
Autobild Sports Cars tests are usually nice and simple. Fast car, the best of the UUHP tires, put them together and see what's best.Thankfully, in the strange year of 2025 testing, Autobild have kept that formula and tes...
The 2025 ADAC summer tire test has been published, and it follows this years trend of testing in the sporty 225/40 R18 tire size!As always with ADAC they sadly don't give us all the data for the test, but they do give us...
This year Autobild has published a second all season tire test, this time in their sports car specific publication. The test uses a sporty Subaru BRZ to test eleven sets of 225/40 R18 all season tires in the dry, wet and...
One again Auto Bild prove that they're one of the best in the game, this year testing 55 different summer tires in a wet and dry braking test to find the best twenty summer tires to take through to their full test!This y...
The 2023 Auto Bild winter tire test has started by testing fifty-four performance winter tires in wet braking, and then put the best thirty-one tires through to a snow braking test, to find out the best fifteen tires for...
Times are hard, and now more so than ever people are asking me what the best budget tire they can buy is. As these have never been tested against each other properly, I usually don't have an answer, but all that is about...
It's the 50th anniversary of the ADAC tire test, and to celebrate the German automotive body have tested fifty summer tires in the popular 205/55 R16 tire size, and have included wear testing for every tire!There's a lot...
In this test, we'll be finding out what the best premium touring summer tires on the market are!I'm going to try and keep this as condensed as I possibly can as we have 13 sets of tires in this test including the newest...
Once again the German publication Auto Bild have tested more winter tires than anyone else in 2022! This years Auto Bild Winter Tire Test starts with 56 winter tires in 215/55 R17 which are all put through a wet braking...
Without fail, each year German publication Auto Bild provides the most comprehensive overview of the summer tire market by testing a huge amount of tires ability in the dry and wet, in order to work out which twenty tire...
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