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Winter) tyre 2013 AMS Sports Winter Tyre Test
Continental WinterContact TS 850 225/50 R17, a BMW 3 Series and 8 sets of the latest winter tyres summarise the 2013 Auto Motor Und Sport winter tyre test.


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October 2013, 225/50 R17, 8 Winter Ultra High Performance tyres on test.
Winter) tyre 2013 ADAC Winter Tyre Test - 185/60 R15
Continental WinterContact TS 850
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September 2013, 185/60 R15, 17 Winter Premium Touring tyres on test.
Winter) tyre 2013 ADAC Winter Tyre Test - 225/45 R17
Continental WinterContact TS 850
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September 2013, 225/45 R17, 15 Winter Premium Touring tyres on test.
Winter) tyre 2013 ACE Winter Tyre Test
Continental WinterContact TS 850
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September 2013, 185/60 R15, 9 Winter Premium Touring tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2013 Auto Express Summer Tyre Test
Continental Sport Contact 5

As usual, the UK magazine Auto Express have waited until October to publish their summer tyre test. While the timing of such an article is a little curious, the test itself is excellent.

Auto Express have tested ten different patterns in the extremely popular tyre size 225/45 R17. Using a VW Golf 7, Auto Express put the tyres through the usual range of wet, dry, noise and fuel tests, and for the first time in over a decade returned to to Goodyears test track in the south of France.


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September 2013, 225/45 R17, 10 Summer Ultra High Performance tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2013 Auto Bild Track Day Semi Slick Tyre Test
After a long break, the German tyre experts Auto Bild are back with a fresh trackday tyre test.
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July 2013, 225/45 R18, 6 Summer Trackday and Competition tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2013 Auto Review Sports SUV Summer Test
A few years ago, testing a 255/55 R18 tyre on a Porsche Cayenne would have been classed as a niche, but with the rise of the "Chelsea tractors" using larger and larger tyre sizes, 255/55 R18 is now a common size.
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June 2013, 255/55 R18, 11 Summer Ultra High Performance tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2013 Test World Summer Tyre Test
Goodyear EfficientGrip Performance As this is a Finnish test, the main parameter during this 2013 test of summer tires wet traction, which is useful for those of us in the UK. The stopping distance on wet roads gives a fairly good idea of ​​how well the manufacturer has tuned the rubber composition, design, construction and tread pattern.
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June 2013, 205/55 R16, 13 Summer Premium Touring tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2013 Auto Review Performance Summer Tyre Test
Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2 As usual, the Russian magazine Auto Review have delivered a wealth of information with their summer 2013 tyre test.

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April 2013, 225/45 R17, 9 Summer Max Performance tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2013 Sport Auto Max Performance Summer Tyre Test
Dunlop SportMaxx RT
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April 2013, 225/40 R18, 10 Summer Max Performance tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2013 Auto Bild SUV / 4X4 Tyre Test
Continental Cross Contact UHP
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April 2013, 235/65 R17, 9 Summer Ultra High Performance tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2013 Auto Bild Performance Summer Tyre Test
Continental Sport Contact 5
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April 2013, 225/35 R18, 8 Summer Max Performance tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2013 Auto Zeitung Summer Tyre Test
Dunlop Sport BluResponse This years 2013 Auto Zeitung tyre test included twelve 215/55 R16 summer premium touring tyres. As ever, read the comments attached to the results for the full story!


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March 2013, 215/55 R16, 12 Summer Premium Touring tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2013 54 Tyre Braking Test
Dunlop Sport BluResponse 54 tyres summer touring tyres in 195/65 R15, wet and dry braking, measure the distance. A very simple test gives us a very good overview of the market.
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March 2013, 195/65 R15, 54 Summer Premium Touring tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2013 European Summer Touring Tyre Test
Michelin Energy Saver Plus
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February 2013, 185/60 R15, 19 Summer Premium Touring tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2013 European Summer Sports Tyre Test
Continental Sport Contact 5 We don't usually analyse the European tyre test, carried out by the excellent German ADAC organisation, but this one was too good to ignore.

Not only is it the first year they've used a tyre larger than 16", there's several new tyres involved in the 225/45 R17 tyre test. It's the first time we've seen the new replacement for the Vredestein Ultrac Sessanta in a group test, along side some of it's new mid range stable mates, the Toyo T1 Sport and the Falken FK453, and its the first time we've seen the Continental Sport Contact 5 beat the Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2. Interesting!
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February 2013, 225/45 R17, 18 Summer High Performance tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2013 ACE Summer Touring Tyre Test
Dunlop Sport BluResponse
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February 2013, 195/65 R15, 16 Summer Premium Touring tyres on test.
Summer) tyre 2012 Sport Auto Track Day Tyre Test
235/35 R19. 305/30 R19. A 997 911 Carrera S and 5 sets of the newest track day tyres designed to give you the ultimate driving pleasure. It sounds like our dream test, so quite how we missed its publication last year we'll never know.
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March 2013, 235/295 35R19, 5 Summer Trackday and Competition tyres on test.
Winter) tyre 2012 Sport Auto Winter Sports Tyre Test
Continental WinterContact TS 830 P
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February 2013, 225/40 R18, 8 Winter Ultra High Performance tyres on test.
Winter) tyre 2012 EVO Winter Tyre Test
Continental WinterContact TS 850
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January 2013, 205/55 R16, 9 Winter Premium Touring tyres on test.