Passenger Car Winter Ultra High Performance Tires

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Tire Reviewed Dry Grip Wet Grip Feedback Handling Wear Comfort
Michelin Pilot Alpin 4 (26) 92% 95% 93% 95% 93% 91%
Falken EUROWINTER HS02 Pro (4) 98% 95% 65% 90% 80% 90%
Goodyear UltraGrip Ice Plus (3) 97% 93% 83% 87% 97% 87%
Michelin Pilot Alpin 5 (23) 93% 92% 90% 91% 91% 80%
Vredestein Wintrac Pro (28) 91% 90% 86% 83% 87% 87%
Goodyear UltraGrip Performance Gen 1 (28) 86% 90% 83% 85% 88% 90%
Bridgestone Blizzak LM25 RFT (7) 84% 89% 87% 71% 87% 84%
Dunlop SP Winter Sport M3 (12) 84% 91% 86% 85% 88% 83%
Goodyear UltraGrip Performance Plus (16) 82% 88% 83% 86% 91% 89%
Continental WinterContact TS 870 P (20) 87% 92% 81% 89% 89% 90%
Nokian Snowproof P (9) 92% 89% 86% 90% 80% 79%
Continental WinterContact TS 860 S (12) 85% 83% 87% 88% 91% 92%
Goodyear UltraGrip Performance (9) 89% 89% 88% 88% 81% 83%
Hankook Winter i cept evo3 (14) 91% 91% 74% 85% 86% 76%
Toyo SNOWPROX S 952 (5) 92% 94% 86% 82% 82% 80%
Goodyear UltraGrip Performance 3 (10) 87% 84% 85% 78% 80% 86%
Bridgestone Blizzak LM25 (9) 85% 85% 75% 84% 84% 84%
Pirelli Winter Sottozero 3 (50) 89% 92% 82% 87% 79% 80%
Dunlop SP WinterSport 4D (37) 89% 93% 88% 88% 88% 92%
Dunlop Winter Sport 5 (41) 83% 85% 79% 78% 86% 84%
Goodyear Eagle UltraGrip (5) 84% 86% 82% 84% 86% 74%
Hankook Winter i cept evo (28) 80% 79% 76% 72% 80% 79%
Avon WV7 (14) 82% 84% 83% 76% 82% 88%
Nokian WRG2 (72) 85% 87% 83% 80% 83% 85%
Dunlop SP Winter Sport M3 ROF (5) 92% 84% 90% 74% 84% 72%
Vredestein Wintrac xtreme S (9) 84% 84% 75% 85% 71% 86%
Continental WinterContact TS 830 P (37) 86% 86% 82% 78% 85% 87%
Goodyear UltraGrip 7 Plus (30) 85% 86% 80% 65% 82% 83%
Pirelli P Zero Winter (8) 74% 80% 80% 69% 89% 84%
Nokian WR A4 (23) 85% 88% 73% 78% 78% 85%
Continental WinterContact TS 850 P (19) 84% 86% 84% 85% 82% 79%
Pirelli Sottozero Serie II (30) 84% 87% 89% 81% 81% 86%
Avon Ice Touring ST (40) 81% 86% 74% 72% 82% 81%
Hankook Winter i cept evo2 (26) 85% 79% 81% 81% 84% 85%
Petlas SnowMaster 2 Sport (3) 80% 73% 77% 80% 83% 73%
Dunlop SP Winter Sport 3D (40) 81% 84% 80% 77% 76% 77%
Vredestein Wintrac Xtreme (64) 83% 86% 82% 77% 87% 86%
Yokohama W drive V905 (17) 88% 83% 82% 83% 86% 75%
Pirelli SOTTOZERO (9) 78% 83% 79% 81% 79% 81%
Nokian WR A3 (75) 92% 87% 88% 82% 90% 91%
Goodyear UltraGrip 8 Performance (13) 84% 84% 71% 77% 83% 82%
Hankook Icebear W300 (10) 76% 64% 77% 74% 71% 70%
Dunlop SP Winter Response (3) 63% 53% 67% 63% 63% 73%
Goodyear Ultra Grip Performance 2 (9) 79% 73% 74% 71% 70% 81%

Passenger Car Winter Ultra High Performance Tires with no reviews

Ceat WinterDrive Sport, Continental WinterContact 8 S, Dunlop SP Winter Sport M2, Goodyear UltraGrip 6, GT Radial WinterPro2 Evo, GT Radial WinterPro2 Sport, Hankook IceBear W300A, Leao Winter Defender UHP, Michelin Pilot Alpin 4 N, Pirelli ICE ZERO ASIMMETRICO PLUS, Pirelli P Zero Winter 2, RoadX RXFROST WH12, RoadX RXFROST WU01, Vredestein Wintrac Nextreme, Vredestein Wintrac Pro plus, Yokohama Advan Winter V907

Passenger Car Winter Ultra High Performance Tires Tire Review Highlights

Continental WinterContact TS 850 P rated 54% while driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee CRD
Driving on a combination of roads for 32000 average miles
This tire performs well in dry conditions and also does well in the wet. Everything else is quite okay, too. However, I had issues with the lateral grip on snow — I was very disappointed in that regard. Because of this, I won’t be buying this tire again.
tire reviewed on 2025-05-26 12:52:32
Goodyear UltraGrip Performance Plus rated 71% while driving a BMW Alpina d3
Driving on a combination of roads for 21000 spirited miles
I drive this tire on an Alpina D3 F31 Bi-turbo Touring Allrad. This tire is okay in dry conditions and good in the wet. It’s the best I know when it comes to lateral grip on snow. With no other tire have I been able to corner so well and so quickly on snow. Everything else is also good. On my vehicle — even though it has all-wheel drive — the rear tires wear out twice as fast as the front ones. I have to replace the rears almost every year, while the fronts usually last about two years, depending on how much and how I drive. I would buy it again and have been doing so for years. Nothing else comes close to this one in terms of lateral grip on snow.
tire reviewed on 2025-05-26 12:21:36
Continental WinterContact TS 830 P rated 49% while driving a BMW Alpina d3
Driving on a combination of roads for 25000 spirited miles
It's a good tire, as the dry grip was very good and the wet grip was okay. It handled well and allowed for sporty driving in dry conditions. However, the lateral grip on snow was disappointing. Everything else was fine. I did have a major issue with this tire, though: severe sawtooth wear. It got so bad that with just about 1 cm of fresh snow (you could still see the road underneath), I couldn't take corners anymore. I could only turn at walking speed. I ended up replacing the tire early. Never again.
tire reviewed on 2025-05-26 11:25:38
Vredestein Wintrac Pro rated 60% while driving a BMW Alpina d3
Driving on a combination of roads for 22000 spirited miles
I drove this tire on an Alpina D3 F31 Bi-Turbo Touring Allrad. It's a good tire in dry conditions, and especially impressive in the wet. I’ve never had a winter tire with such strong wet grip — it even rivals some summer tires. However, I was disappointed with its lateral grip on snow and ice. Everything else was good. Wear was acceptable, but due to the camber of my car, the tires wore down excessively on the inside — to the point where they tore and the internal reinforcement material became visible on the rear tires. I won’t be buying them again, mainly because of that issue and the lack of lateral grip.
tire reviewed on 2025-05-26 11:08:34
Continental WinterContact TS 870 P rated 89% while driving a Audi A4 2.0 TDI Ultra 163
Driving on a combination of roads for 6500 average miles
I have driven these tires for around 10 000 km, it was mild winter this year in the Baltics so not very much of testing for it. But mostly on wet roads it felt very nice, braking performance is really good. Noting to worry about the driving - so I assume it is a feature of a decent tire if you don't have to rethink your driving in special conditions. It's pretty quiet too.
tire reviewed on 2025-03-28 01:13:55
Goodyear UltraGrip Performance 3 rated 78% while driving a Kia Motors Pro ceed
Driving on mostly country roads for 6000 spirited miles
Generally good tires. They feel sporty and truly shine in dry conditions. They keep progressive composure at the limit and have a fun tendency to oversteer slightly rather than understeer (although this was quite new and surprising to me in comparision with my past winter tire experiences). It's a thrill to drive these at the limit when conditions are decent. Launch traction was also good which is important to me - it's often hard to put 204HP down in my fwd car from a stopped start. There were merely a couple days of snow so far but the tires were rather good in piercing through it (better than my previous tires).

They have a rather considerable drawback though. That is ice grip. For me these feel unsafe and miserable on ice compared to my previous Hankook Winter i*cept evo'3's. It's similar but less noticeable when it comes to slushy conditions and deep water grooves. I wouldn't recommend these to a novice driver, based on my experience the Hankooks were safer and more predictable (also much less fun though). Personally I've found noise to be unpleasant and tiresome while driving on motorways with very high speeds - in my experience the Hankooks were more pleasant but it is largely subjective.
tire reviewed on 2025-03-07 05:47:11
Pirelli P Zero Winter rated 88% while driving a Mercedes Benz E220Cdi
Driving on a combination of roads for 20000 average miles
Have it on my Mercedes e-coupe. Best high performance winter tire I had.
tire reviewed on 2025-03-03 13:29:45
Vredestein Wintrac Pro rated 96% while driving a Renault Megane IV estate
Driving on mostly motorways for 30000 average miles
I mostly use the car for long jouneys, so I was looking for a winter tire that provides safety not only on snow and ice, but also on dry and damp roads. Snow became a rare appearance in the last years, so dry and wet performance is really important in winter tires. I have to say the reviews I read here helped my decision, and also I found the Vredestein tires at a really good price. They have an amazing amount of grip on snowy and icy roads, they really inspire confidence. On the dry they feel better compared to my factory fitted Continental Eco Contact 6 summer tires. Maybe on wet roads things could be better, but still it's a safe tire. Wear seems to be extremely good, this is my 3rd winter, approximately 30.000 kms and they still have a lot of tread. So very good value for money, I definitely reccomend the Wintrac Pro.
tire reviewed on 2025-02-23 13:21:16
Pirelli P Zero Winter rated 44% while driving a Porsche 992 Carrera 4S
Driving on mostly country roads for 500 spirited miles
I drive a 992 Carrera 4S in the Pacific Northwest. I'm using the Porsche OEM version of this tire (N-rated). In the snow I've had no problems with grip, under normal fairly cautious driving. But that is where the benefits of this tire end for me. In the dry or damp, the handling feels unpredictable in bends in a way I've never had before, like the grip limits are far lower but it's hard to sense at what speed or how it will behave. In the wet, these are abysmal. I've had ABS kick in under just slightly harder-than-usual braking. On a slightly damp surface (a couple hours after rain), a friend with the same car but on summer tires (in 37F / 3 C weather!) did a hard 0-60 at a highway entrance without issue - I was behind him and tried the same, but got wheel spin and wheel hop as the AWD scrabbled for traction. I'll also add that the rubber on the sidewalls appears to be breaking down, the tires are 2.5 years old and have always lived indoors.

If your winter is mostly snowy, these are not bad, but if you get mild rainy winters with minimal snow, like the PNW, I'd avoid these.
tire reviewed on 2025-02-19 07:36:26
Petlas SnowMaster 2 Sport rated 75% while driving a Skoda Fabia Mk4 1.5 TSI ACT
Driving on a combination of roads for 3000 average miles
I've been using it for 4 months and have driven approximately 5000 km. The majority of this was in the city and on the unpaved road where my workplace is located. The tire performs very well on both dry and wet surfaces, with a good braking distance. I had no issues on snow either. In terms of noise, you can hear the tires at every speed. For me, it was a great price/performance tire, and I can say it has been successful in this regard. If it maintains the same softness next season, I believe it will continue to satisfy me greatly.
tire reviewed on 2025-02-19 05:22:51
Continental WinterContact TS 870 P rated 42% while driving a Alfa Romeo Stelvio 2.9T V6 Quadrifoglio
Driving on a combination of roads for 2000 average miles
Using these for second season for about 3-4 months in winter only. DOT 2023 . First season I didn't had chance to drive in real winter snow/ice conditions. Overall these handle fine in dry and wet. Yesterday we had a lot of snow, ice and water and I can only say .........if you want to live don't ever buy this tire and use it in winter conditions !!!! Absolutely horrible traction, braking and handling in winter conditions. I was very lucky I survived yesterday. The tires feels very hard after just around 3-4K km and absolutely useless in snow and ice. I never had such bad experience with any premium tire in my driver life which is around 30 years. The pressure is at factory recommendations and the tires were kept in closed excellent conditions when not driven. I don't know what exactly did the guys at Continental but I guess the rubber compound is terribly mistaken at the factory. Hard as hell . Before I bought them I looked to all the tests from everywhere and this awful tire was always in the top 3 in the tests ???? I will never buy whatever from Continental in my life again !!!
tire reviewed on 2025-02-18 07:43:26
Pirelli Sottozero Serie II rated 52% while driving a BMW 3 series
Driving on mostly country roads for 0 average miles
Got these tires 1year ago and still plenty of tread left. In dry they are ok.. but in wet i just dont feal safe. Aquaplaning is bad. In slushy snow they are actualy good, could climb a steep icy and snowy hill and felt comfortable normal snow driving. Overall i won't be buying them again.
tire reviewed on 2025-02-15 15:27:14
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