Tire Rack test results ultra high performance all season tires best ev tires - Tire Rack/YouTubeIn a lot of ways, even the phrase "ultra-high-performance all-season tires" sounds wrong. Tires are supposed to follow rules, and the rules say that all-season tires can be fine for normal drivers, but you don't want something that says "all season" on a performance car. That's just how tire rubber works. The wizards engineers who develop tires, however, would disagree, but what do they know? Tires science? We'll see. So are any of these so-called "ultra-high-performance all-season" tires worth buying? Our friends over at Tire Rack just tested five UHPAS tires to find out. Spoiler: the Michelin didn't win. To test these tires, Tire Rack used a Tesla Model 3, but they weren't testing EV-specific tires. Among the Bridgestone Potenza Sport AS,Continental ExtremeContact DWS 06 PLUS,Goodyear Eagle F1 All Season,Goodyear Eagle Sport All-Season, andMichelin Pilot Sport All Season 4, only the Eagle Sport was developed with EVs in mind. So don't discount the results of this test just because an EV was involved. They should be relevant regardless of what you drive. And while you certainly don't have to, it sounds like some drivers could legitimately get away with only running a single, year-round tire on their performance cars.Just don't forget to double-check which tire you're actually buying. A Michelin Pilot Sport 4S and a Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 4 are two very different tires despite both being Michelin Pilot Sports with a "4" in the name. You probably don't need that warning, but you never know who else might. This is the internet, after all.AdvertisementAdvertisementRead more: These Are The Cars That Let You Down The HardestGoodyear Eagle F1 All Season supremacyThat said, just because the results of this test should be applicable beyond EVs, the Goodyear Eagle Sport All-Season is the new OEM tire option that comes on the Model 3. Since Tire Rack used a Model 3 in the test, maybe the test itself was rigged. Not necessarily. The Eagle Sport came out on top for efficiency, and it ended up being one of the most efficient tires that Tire Rack's tested overall, but there's more to a high-performance tire than how much energy it takes to go 100 miles.On the road, the Goodyear Eagle F1, Continental ExtremeContact, and Bridgestone Potenza beat out the more-efficient Eagle Sport, which tied for fourth place with the Michelin Pilot Sport. In wet testing, the Eagle F1 tied for first with the Michelin Pilot Sport All Season, while the Eagle Sport finished last. The Eagle F1's wet performance wasn't enough to knock the Michelin Pilot Sport 4S out of first place overall, but it still managed fifth, even as an all-season performance tire. The Eagle F1 also came out on top in Tire Rack's dry testing, only losing in the overall rankings to dedicated summer tires such as the Continental ExtremeContact Sport 02.So that's it, if you've been dreaming of a performance tire that you don't have to swap out whenever it gets cold, just slap a set of Goodyear Eagle F1 All Seasons on your Corvette or Porsche? Maybe. But one limitation of the results in this particular video is the lack of cold weather and snow performance testing. In the conditions Tire Rack tested, the Eagle F1 performed great compared to other ultra-high-performance tires, but if you know your winter tires need to be able to handle snow, you may want to wait for the upcoming winter test results that Tire Rack promises is coming early next year.AdvertisementAdvertisementWant more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox, and add us as a preferred search source on Google.Read the original article on Jalopnik.
