Given
76%
while driving a
Mazda MX5
(205/45 R17 V) on
a combination of roads
for 19,700
average miles
These were OEM fit on my wife's MX5 NC 2.0 Sport. I was interested to see what they'd be like as I'd had Pole Positions on a previous car (good) and RE040s (horrid).
Overall I really like these on the Mazda. I have not tried it other tyres yet so have nothing to compare with. It may give tyres an easier tyre de to being lighter than many cars. They gave plenty of grip in the dry and a good feel to the car. In wet weather they have been fine with no nasty moments either in corners or aquaplaning. The traction control light can get active on mini roundabouts and out of T junctions but that's just clumsy driving usually. ABS also activates a little sooner at times that I'd expect (not silly hard braking - just pulling up sensibly at give ways but perhaps with our crummy road surfaces this is not so surprising).
I see there are a lot of comments about poor performance in the snow. Well, I wouldn't have expected much on that score. Actually we haven't had any major issues but did just have to drive very carefully. When the roads were slush covered, I drove my wife to work and as long I drove to the conditions, we got through without issue. This is in surbuban Surrey however with no major hills. Not too bad for a light, rear drive car with summer tyres. The other days we took the Golf which ploughed on through everything!
I recently did a limit handling day in the car on a runway surface. This basically did for the tyres by taking all the shoulders off and taking the edge off the treads on the front. I dreaded the drive home but actually although the car had less turn in the tyres are still OK in the dry. Time to change (not on the wear indicators yet but I like to change them a bit earlier as wet grip and aquaplane resistance disappears on most tyres