Best Tires for the Mazda 6 Wagon

I only use it for daily and occasional long distances, the road noise and comfort is not as advertised,

After 6 years and ~37.000km of use, the tire still looks good, has a usable tread left. From the beginning till now it performance excellent in dry and wet conditions. Yesterday I've covert 300km of motorway in a very strong storm and they felt really good on a tarmac that was soaked.
On the other hand, the tire really disappointed on snow covered roads. We live in the mountains and when the roads are covered with snow, the tire loses traction very easily uphill.
So, the tire is really great if you live in areas that don't see a lot of snow.

I bought those instead of another set of crossclimate2 for my Mazda6 Kuro. I’m in the south of UK so wet braking and performance is more important than snow capabilities and so far I’m pleasantly surprised. Confidence inspiring in the cold wet, fantastic on dry and warmer days and super grippy.
They lack a bit of feel near the limit of performance, but I found that to be the case with most all season tires and I’m yet to make the car oversteer or understeer even in heavy rain.
Ice/snow performance is okay but nowhere near the CC2. Considering I paid 25% less than michelin or pirelli, I wouldn’t hesitate to get them again.
Great tires and perfect for UK weather year round.

I used these tires for 40 000 km on a Mazda 6 GJ with sporty driving. My car has a set of coilovers and I have dialed in a bit too much toe on the front and it wore out the front tires prematurely, so the 40 000 km would be about 60 000 on a normal suspension setup. That said the tires had a much better lateral grip than lngitudinal grip both in the dry and the wet. Yet they were still much better than the Radar tires the car came with. They had good grip in the snow too for all season tires.
The tires are good, but with this much toe the car suffered a lot in the snow with the tires fighting each other. I changed to a set of dedicated winter tires. The only downside was the aqua and snow planing speeds were greatly reduced as the tires started to wear and the ice grip got much worse after the first summer.

I already wrote a review shortly after I bought these tires. Then I was quite positive. Sadly my opinion changed, and not for the good.
First things first. From the beginning I had some vibration problems. Especially at speeds around 60 km/h I experienced a wobble in the steering. I moved the front tires to the rear vise versa, that was a bit better but the vibration was irritating. Recently I went to a tire shop for road force balancing my rears. The force was very high, but after rotating the tires on the rims most of the vibration has gone. I’ve never had this issue with any other types of tires.
Another thing I dislike very much are the grip levels. Especially in the lateral direction on a wet road it is quite bad. But also in a longitudinal direction. One time I had to do an emergency stop, and I really was shocked about the braking distance necessary.
Grip levels in dry conditions are okayish. Same in winter conditions with some snow.
Stability straight ahead could be better. Many little steering corrections are necessary all the time. This is a bit tiring.
The comfort level is good, the tires don’t produce a lot of noise. Wear also seems to be okay.
They are cheap, but I would not buy them again.

It's not a bad tire performance wise, very good grip on corners at high speeds on country highway, wet grip is mediocre, when starting from an uphill traffic light, it skids easily. And the tread durability is very concerning. It came with only 6.5mm tread new and with only 7000km on those tires they have shown very obvious wear. I probably won't buy them again as I drive a lot and these have bad durability, however if you don't drive a lot it's a decent performing tire.

TLDR: perfomance decline after just 2 seasons!

Driving in Finland, I bought a set of these based on the stellar reviews. For 2 seasons it was great. Especially in the snow and on white ice. Black ice performance was ok, but not great. Average in the dry and wet (to be expected).
During the 3rd season the performance declined significantly. I got stuck in downtown Helsinki on a snowy icy patch of tarmac while parking, other cars(regular 2wd) left the same spot even on studless tires without issues. Even the slightest icing / slush on the roads were too much. I lost confidence in the tire, I reported it to Nokian and they took the tires for inspection after the 3rd season. Without doing any tests they sent it back and said it was all ok. Never buying a Nokian again, it seems the lifetime of these tires is 2 seasons, even when there is plenty of tread remaining.

This is the best touring tires I have had! It grips well on the dry & wet. Aquaplaning is acceptable IMO. It's treadwear is simply long lasting and even though I'm already over 55K KM, the noise level is still very acceptable!

due to budget, replace this with the worn PS4S. PS4S still the better than this in overall, but with the price point of this Proxes Sport, i am happy with it. dry grip can handle the mild driving at the wavy road. while wet grip is good enough for slightly beyond speed limit on motorway. the Proxes Sport is soft, and even handling part also as soft as you can't really feel any thing. so far approx 5000 miles (8000km), the wear looking good, still have plenty of tread there. overall comfort, i am satisfied with the performance considered the price point.