Hello,
My name is Neal and hopefully my feedback will help make your tire buying experience easier. I've been with Tire Rack since 2002 and have participated in numerous tire testing events, toured suspension/tire plants, owned and used numerous items we carry on a variety of my own vehicles, and participated in track events on products we carry. I've also attended races at 24 Le Mans in France, Petit Le Mans Road America, and the Long Beach Grand Prix where brands such as Michelin, Yokohama, and Bridgestone ran.
Over the years I've owned such cars as Infiniti G35, Lexus IS350, Audi A4 Quattro, and Mazda CX-9. I've also been around the vintage car scene for quite some time and own a 1973 Charger which I restored myself.
If you are online you can also view my vehicle specific recommendations on G35 Driver, EvolutionM, MYG37, and MY350Z automotive forums.
Tire buying can be overwhelming for sure. Hopefully my experience and guidence will take some of the speed bumps out of your search.
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Yokohama AVID ENVigor continues to be one of the top
High Performance All-Season tires on the market.The tire is designed for serious sports car and coupe enthusiasts looking to satisfy their year-round driving needs. By providing traction in dry, wet and wintry conditions, the tire is a favorite amongst drivers of the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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AVID ENVigor radial's all-season silica tread compound is molded into a contact patch featuring a directional tread pattern that blends performance with all-season traction. It also features linked shoulder blocks and a continuous tapered center rib to increase tread rigidity and handling. Independent intermediate blocks and angled grooves enhance wet traction, help resist hydroplaning and promote traction in light snow.
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Michelin Pilot Exalto A/S continues to be one of the top
High Performance All-Season tires on the market. The tire is designed for serious sports car and coupe enthusiasts looking to satisfy their year-round driving needs. By providing traction in dry, wet and wintry conditions, the tire is a favorite amongst drivers of the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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Pilot Exalto A/S tire features a formulated compound to balance dry grip, wet traction, light snow traction and tread wear. This compound is molded into a directional tread design to provide handling in nearly every weather condition. Siped independent tread blocks combined with wide circumferential grooves help eject water from under the contact patch to resist hydroplaning and enhance wet traction.
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BFGoodrich g-Force Super Sport A/S continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance All-Season tires on the market. The tire is designed for serious sports car and coupe enthusiasts looking to satisfy their year-round driving needs. By providing traction in dry, wet and wintry conditions, the tire is a favorite amongst drivers of the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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g-Force Super Sport A/S features Multi Grip Tread Technology which uses three unique side-by-side tread compounds across the tire designed to provide traction in dry, wet and wintry conditions.
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Kumho Ecsta ASX continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance All-Season tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking to satisfy their year-round driving needs by blending dry and wet road performance with light snow and slush traction. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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Ecsta ASX molds a high technology silica and carbon tread compound into an asymmetric tread design with large outside tread blocks for sporty handling, as well as circumferential and high angle slant grooves to resist hydroplaning. Constant contact center blocks help reduce noise while providing continuous straight-line stability. Internally, the
Ecsta ASX tires feature Kumho's Dynamic Casing Shape Technology that controls casing tension throughout the tire. This improves ride comfort by absorbing bumps and increasing handling.
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Goodyear Eagle GT continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance All-Season tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking to satisfy their year-round driving needs by blending dry and wet road performance with light snow and slush traction. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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Eagle GT features an all-season tread compound molded into an asymmetric tread design. The outside high performance compound features large independent shoulder and intermediate tread blocks to enhance steering response and handling. Aquachute tread grooves help evacuate water to increase wet traction. The inboard all-season compound features a continuous rib with circumferential grooves to help evacuate water and inboard shoulder blocks blend stability on the road with traction in snow.
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Yokohama ADVAN S.4. continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance All-Season tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking to satisfy their year-round driving needs by blending dry and wet road performance with light snow and slush traction. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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ADVAN S.4. contains a silica-enhanced all-season tread compound that features large reinforced shoulder blocks, staggered independent intermediate tread blocks, and continuous circumferential center ribs to increase steering response. The tire also features wide circumferential lateral grooves to aid in evacuating water and to help resist hydroplaning. Elongated sipes provide the biting edges needed to enhance light snow traction. A tapered bead filler balances responsiveness and cornering performance with low road noise as well.
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Pirelli P Zero Nero All Season continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance All-Season tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking to satisfy their year-round driving needs by blending dry and wet road performance with light snow and slush traction. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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P Zero Nero All Season features a silica-based tread compound that provides traction during high temperatures in the dry and low temperatures in the wet or snow. The compound is molded into an asymmetric tread design that features stable outside shoulder blocks combined with continuous intermediate and center ribs. This design helps increase dry grip during acceleration and braking. To resist hydroplaning and enhance wet traction, shoulder grooves and circumferential channels allow water to flow through the tread design.
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Bridgestone Potenza RE960AS Pole Position continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance All-Season tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking to satisfy their year-round driving needs by blending dry and wet road performance with light snow and slush traction. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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Potenza RE960AS Pole Position uses advanced compound and construction features to enhance and preserve wet traction through the tire’s life. It molds an all-season tread compound into a directional design to provide stability on dry roads and wet. Scalloped lateral grooves on the leading edge of each tread block and sipes in each tread block help increase the number of biting edges to enhance light snow traction.
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Michelin Pilot Sport A/S Plus continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance All-Season tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking to satisfy their year-round driving needs by blending dry and wet road performance with light snow and slush traction. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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Pilot Sport A/S Plus molds three different tread compounds side-by-side. The tread compound in the shoulders improves dry handling, the compound used between the shoulders and center rib enhances wet, snow and cold weather traction while the compound used in the center rib boosts wet traction. These three compounds are molded into a directional tread design that features a continuous center rib, high angle directional tread blocks along with circumferential and high angle lateral grooves.
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Continental ExtremeContact DWS continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance All-Season tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking to satisfy their year-round driving needs by blending dry and wet road performance with light snow and slush traction. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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ExtremeContact DWS features Tuned Performance Indicators or letters molded into the outboard shoulder to alert drivers of the tire's performance levels. DWS stands for Dry, Wet, Snow. After the "S" has worn away, the remaining "DW" is a warning that the tire only has sufficient tread depth for dry and wet road conditions. Finally, after the "W"
and "S"
have both worn away, the remaining "D" tells you the tire is appropriate for dry conditions only.
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Goodyear Eagle F1 GS continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance Summer tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking for race tire-like traction on the street or for use in aggressive street driving and track events. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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Eagle F1 GS shapes Goodyear's AATRAX tread compound into a directional tread design. Large shoulder blocks with center ribs and a multi-radius profile offer tight steering and uniform wear. Dual Aquachannels help provide efficient water evacuation to promote wet traction. The tire's internal structure includes twin steel belts and an angled ply carcass which combines disturbance-free operation with high-speed durability.
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Continental ContiSportContact continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance Summer tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking for race tire-like traction on the street or for use in aggressive street driving and track events. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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ContiSportContact features an asymmetric tread design that helps enhance steering response and precision. Also, the tire's continuous ribs provide the circumferential stiffness to help transmit acceleration and braking forces. The continuous tread grooves between the ribs help disperse water to resist hydroplaning.
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Fuzion ZRi continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance Summer tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking for race tire-like traction on the street or for use in aggressive street driving and track events. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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Fuzion ZRi has a long link carbon and silica compound molded into an aggressive directional tread design. This helps enhance dry traction and also helps to evacuate water from between the tire’s contact patch and the road to reduce the possibility of hydroplaning. Internally its casing and twin steel belts deliver responsive handling and cornering stability. The
Fuzion ZRi features a rim protector to function as bumpers that help protect wheels from curb damage.
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Sumitomo HTR-Z continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance Summer tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking for race tire-like traction on the street or for use in aggressive street driving and track events. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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HTR-Z features a directional tread pattern that combines angled shoulder blocks and intermediate blocks with a continuous center rib to enhance dry road grip and directional stability. Four circumferential grooves efficiently evacuate water from the contact patch which helps resist hydroplaning. The
HTR-Z's internal structure features two steel belts with spirally wrapped bands of reinforcement to enhance high-speed durability. A shorter profile sidewall adds stiffeners to enhance steering response and overall handling.
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Dunlop Direzza DZ101 continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance Summer tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking for race tire-like traction on the street or for use in aggressive street driving and track events. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Honda Civic and various other applications.
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Direzza DZ101 features Dunlop's silicarbon matrix tread compound to enhance grip. The compound is molded into a directional tread design featuring rigid shoulder blocks and two wide channels to combine responsive handling and stable cornering. The tire's internal structure includes twin steel belts reinforced by a jointless band spirally wound nylon cord cap ply to stabilize the tread area. A flange shields acts as a cub protector helping resist rim damage due to accidental curbing.
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Yokoh
ama Parada Spec-2 continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance Summer tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking for race tire-like traction on the street or for use in aggressive street driving and track events. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the VW Golf, BMW 3 Series, Honda Accord and various other applications.
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PARADA Spec-2 features a high-grip, silica tread compound. This new tread compound is molded into an asymmetric tread design that uses large tread blocks to provide rubber-to-road contact that reduces tread squirm. Large diagonal tread blocks reach across the tire’s footprint to further increase cornering stability and dry road traction. Internally, twin steel belts are reinforced by spirally wound nylon strips to provide long-term durability under high speed conditions.
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Kumho Ecsta SPT continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance Summer tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking for race tire-like traction on the street or for use in aggressive street driving and track events. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the VW Golf, BMW 3 Series, Honda Accord and various other applications.
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Ecsta SPT tires feature a dispersion silica tread compound molded into a directional tread design that features large independent shoulder blocks and three solid center ribs to enhance wet grip and high-speed stability. The tire's internal construction features twin steel belts reinforced by a spiral-wrapped, jointless nylon cap ply to enhance ride quality while providing high-speed durability.
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BFGoodrich g-Force Sport continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance Summer tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking for race tire-like traction on the street or for use in aggressive street driving and track events. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Mazdaspeed3, Hyundai Genesis Coupe, Honda Accord and various other applications.
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The g-Force Sport is designed to provide traction in dry and wet conditions, however it is not intended to be driven in near freezing temperatures, through snow or on ice.The g-Force Sport molds BlackTech tread compound with large shoulder blocks, g-Hook intermediate ribs, two center ribs and two wide circumferential rain channels to increase dry braking, cornering and straight-line stability. The tire's internal structure includes twin, high tensile steel belts.
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Yokohama S.drive continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance Summer tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking for race tire-like traction on the street or for use in aggressive street driving and track events. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Mazdaspeed3, Hyundai Genesis Coupe, Honda Accord and various other applications.
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Yokohama S.drive features a micro-flexible tread compound creating using nanotechnology to produce a silica-based compound that maximizes contact between the tire and the road enhancing grip in wet and dry conditions. This compound is molded into a directional tread design that features independent shoulder blocks and a continuous center rib to maintain cornering stability. Wide circumferential grooves optimize cornering traction and evacuate water to resist hydroplaning.
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General Exclaim UHP continues to be one of the top
Ultra High Performance Summer tires on the market. It is designed for serious sports car and sports coupe enthusiasts looking for race tire-like traction on the street or for use in aggressive street driving and track events. This tire is a favorite amongst the drivers of cars like the Mazdaspeed3, Hyundai Genesis Coupe, Honda Accord and various other applications.
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Exclaim UHP uses an ultra high performance silica compound that features wide, solid shoulder tread blocks and a high-tech contour. This creates great responsive handling and good dry traction, its directional tread pattern enhances wet performance. Together, the tread compound and design help sweep water away from between the tire’s contact patch and the road to improve wet grip while reducing the possibility of hydroplaning.
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