Data Explorer / Tire Reviews
Summer, All Season, All Weather, Winter, Nordic Winter and Studded Tires Tested
- Tested size
- 205/55 R16
- Tires tested
- 6
- Disciplines
- 7
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| ft ↓ | s ↓ | ft ↓ | s ↓ | ft ↓ | s ↓ | ft ↓ | ||||||||
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| 1 | — | — | 84 | 51.40 | 100.0 | 89 | 37.8 | 100.0 | 324 | 202.6 | 39.9 | — | — | |
StrengthsBest in every dry and wet test. ConsiderationsLast by a huge margin for snow braking and snow handling. Score contributionCategory score × of overall score Dry100 × 22% = 22 Wet100 × 39% = 39 Snow39.89 × 33% = 13.16 Ice— | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 5 | 78.52 | 96 | 51.57 | 93.7 | 111 | 39.3 | 87.9 | 198 | 128.1 | 63.9 | 190 | 41.9 | |
StrengthsSecond for dry braking and dry handling. ConsiderationsLast for ice braking and far behind the winter and all-weather tires on snow. Score contributionCategory score × of overall score Dry93.72 × 22% = 20.62 Wet87.94 × 39% = 34.29 Snow63.94 × 33% = 21.1 Ice41.85 × 6% = 2.51 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 89.80 | 99 | 52.80 | 91.1 | 105 | 38.6 | 91.4 | 115 | 96.8 | 94.3 | 159 | 50.0 | |
StrengthsSecond on the wet handling lap and third for wet and snow braking. ConsiderationsWell behind the Nordic tires on ice. Score contributionCategory score × of overall score Dry91.07 × 22% = 20.03 Wet91.37 × 39% = 35.63 Snow94.35 × 33% = 31.13 Ice50.01 × 6% = 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | 91.30 | 98 | 51.83 | 92.7 | 102 | 38.9 | 92.3 | 116 | 94.4 | 95.6 | 142 | 56.0 | |
StrengthsSecond for wet braking and third for dry braking, dry and wet handling, ice braking and snow handling. ConsiderationsFar behind the Nordic tires on ice, and only fourth for snow braking. Score contributionCategory score × of overall score Dry92.66 × 22% = 20.39 Wet92.31 × 39% = 36 Snow95.61 × 33% = 31.55 Ice56.02 × 6% = 3.36 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | 4 | 88.51 | 104 | 53.97 | 88.2 | 128 | 41.9 | 79.9 | 111 | 92.2 | 98.6 | 88 | 90.5 | |
StrengthsFastest snow handling lap, and second for ice and snow braking. ConsiderationsLongest wet braking, second longest dry braking, and slow in the wet and dry. Score contributionCategory score × of overall score Dry88.19 × 22% = 19.4 Wet79.86 × 39% = 31.14 Snow98.59 × 33% = 32.53 Ice90.48 × 6% = 5.43 | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 3 | 89.13 | 109 | 54.37 | 85.8 | 125 | 42.0 | 80.5 | 108 | 92.9 | 99.6 | 79 | 100.0 | |
StrengthsShortest ice braking by a clear margin, shortest snow braking and second fastest snow handling lap. ConsiderationsLongest dry braking and slowest on both the dry and wet handling laps. Score contributionCategory score × of overall score Dry85.85 × 22% = 18.89 Wet80.45 × 39% = 31.38 Snow99.6 × 33% = 32.87 Ice100 × 6% = 6 | ||||||||||||||
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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.
- Dry Weighting 22% Real impact 11%
- Wet Weighting 39% Real impact 46%
- Snow Weighting 33% Real impact 15%
- Ice Weighting 6% Real impact 28%
- Ice Braking counts for 6% of the score but creates 28% of the difference between the tires, because their results in it were far apart.
- Snow Handling counts for 17.8% of the score but creates only 8% of the difference, because most tires performed about the same in it.
Every discipline 7
| Discipline | Weighting | Real impact |
|---|---|---|
| Dry Braking | 11% | 6% |
| Dry Handling | 11% | 5% |
| Wet Braking | 19.5% | 31% |
| Wet Handling | 19.5% | 15% |
| Snow Braking | 15.2% | 6% |
| Snow Handling | 17.8% | 8% |
| Ice Braking | 6% | 28% |
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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