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Better alternative – Auto Bild Sportscars tests all-season tyres
7 Nov 2025
Auto Bild Sportscars argues there is no alternative to “genuine summer tyres” for those wanting “to get the best possible performance out of a sports car on the asphalt,” at least in the warmer months of the year. But UK summers are a fleeting phenomenon, and tyres that deliver top performance in warm weather can struggle on winter roads. All-season tyres offer a practical alternative; the performance motoring publication has tested ten products in 225/45 R18.
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Victory for Michelin in Auto Bild tyre test
28 Feb 2019
There were no nasty surprises in this year’s Auto Bild summer tyre test. A knockout round of wet and dry braking tests had already rooted out any mad, bad and dangerous to know tyres. All of the 20 candidates remaining from the original field of 53 gave a good account of themselves in the expanded test round. Six of their number even received Auto Bild’s top ‘exemplary’ rating.
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Cooper introduces its tyre for all seasons
25 Feb 2019
Drivers in the UK and Europe are turning to all-season tyres in growing numbers. Cooper Tire Europe aims to meet demand with an entirely new range, the Cooper Discoverer All Season.
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Four ‘highly recommended’ tyres in Autozeitung 235/45 R18 test
25 Feb 2019
When evaluating tyres for the coming summer season, German motoring magazine Autozeitung looked at ten brands of 235/45 R18 rubber, a size commonly found on large family saloons and estates. Testing was conducted using a Skoda Superb and the results yielded a surprise or two: While we weren’t especially astonished to see the Continental PremiumContact 6 (runner-up in last year’s Autozeitung test) in first place and the Michelin Primacy 4 in second, the Maxxis Premitra HP5 entered unfamiliar territory by securing space on the podium – as far as WhatTyre is aware, this is the first time the Premitra HP5 has achieved a podium finish.
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Auto Bild summer test: The shortlisted tyres
22 Feb 2019
Thank you for taking part in the initial stage of our 2019 summer tyre test. The standard of applicants was very high, and after reviewing your aptitude in the wet and dry braking challenges, we have decided you won’t progress to the final round of testing on this occasion. We wish you every success in your future endeavours.
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Overhaul for Superia tyre range
21 Feb 2019
The Superia budget brand has been around for several years now, but WhatTyre has learned that the entire range is now being produced by one of the world’s biggest tyre makers. ZC Rubber, best known in the UK for its Westlake and Goodride brands and the 10th largest tyre maker globally, will manufacture a full range of high performance, UHP, SUV and light commercial truck patterns under the Superia brand name.
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Van tyre test highlights performance trade-off
20 Feb 2019
While European motoring clubs the ÖAMTC (Austria), ADAC (Germany) and TCS (Switzerland) recommended all 16 of the tyres for small family cars they tested, their evaluation of 16 van tyres certainly didn’t yield the same result. None of the candidates received the top rating of ‘outstanding’ or even a ‘highly recommended’, and no less than nine finished proceedings with a ‘not recommended’ to their name.
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