Given
80%
while driving a
Mazda MX5
(185/60 R14) on
mostly country roads
for 2,000
spirited miles
Fitted a set of these to my newly purchased MX5 to replace the mismatched budgets. The budgets were great fun for sliding about, but ultimately not very confidence inspiring at all.
Within the first week, I had to deal with snow and ice. Even on compacted snow and sheet ice, the little MX5 chugged up hills quite happily, never once got stuck though I didn't venture into any deep snow.
Now the weather has warmed up, these tyres offer fantastic and predictable grip wet or dry. I have used them for autotesting too, and again while providing plenty of grip with a nice progressive limit, it would seem they tend to fold over the sidewalls when pushed hard, which wears the outer edge incredibly fast. I'll be changing the alignment to compensate for this.
All in all, I am very happy. Tyres are limited in this size and I think these were a fantastic choice given the low price.