Car and Driver's Top 10 Tires. - NJFBOA - Home of New Jersey's Camaros and Firebirds

Koll · 01-01-2006, 08:44 AM

Car And Driver tested tires in WET and DRY conditions, last time they did this was 20 years ago! Here are the TOP 10:

Tenth Place
BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KD

Ninth Place
Bridgestone Potenza RE050A

Eighth Place
Toyo Proxes T1R

Seventh Place
Pirelli P Zero Rosso Asimmetrico

Sixth Place
Dunlop SP Sport Maxx

Fifth Place
Hankook Ventus R-S2 Z212

Fourth Place
Michelin Pilot Sport PS2

Third Place
Yokohama Advan Neova AD07

Second Place
Continental ContiSportContact 2

First Place
Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3

For Complete write ups on the tires, please see this link:

http://www.caranddriver.com/article....ticle_id=10252

WayFast84 · 01-01-2006, 10:34 AM

wow Im gonna go get some hankooks $99 a tire 6th place.

Ian · 01-01-2006, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by WayFast84

wow Im gonna go get some hankooks $99 a tire 6th place.

5th place

trashman01 · 01-01-2006, 01:19 PM

OFN

WayFast84 · 01-01-2006, 01:59 PM

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Featured in This Comparo
BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KD
Bridgestone Potenza RE050A
Continental ContiSportContact 2
Dunlop SP Sport Maxx
Goodyear Eagle F1
Hankook Ventus R-S2 Z212
Kumho Ecsta MX
Michelin Pilot Sport PS2
Pirelli P Zero Rosso Asimmetrico
Toyo Proxes T1R
Yokohama Advan Neova AD07

Man I thought they were in order from best to worst....

The Fixer · 01-01-2006, 02:50 PM

I have to say, I have the Continental ExtremeContacts and they are great in the rain and handle very very well on dry pavement.

qwikz28 · 01-01-2006, 03:38 PM

i drove the eagle f1s before and they are spectacular. expensive though so i'm going for the kdw2s next.

btw- hankook blows

BonzoHansen · 01-01-2006, 05:54 PM

The article (I can't find the issue now) said the numbers were on the website so you could make your own determination, but I can't find them. I wanted to look at the scores w/o the treadwear (which is a useless number), and without price.

BigAls87Z28 · 01-01-2006, 07:46 PM

I have NO idea why the KD was used. The D clearly stansd for Dry weather, and Dry weather only. When they put it in rain, it supun out...NO ****!?!?!?!
Try on the KDW and you might have gotten different results.
F!'s are much expensive, but one of Goodyears better tires.
Mich PS2's are another "dry" weather tire. if they wanted an all season performance tire, they should have put in the Pilot Sport A/S.

formulaMARK · 01-02-2006, 10:58 AM

i have bfg gforce. They are great tires

jbird99 · 01-02-2006, 11:26 AM

my tires arent even on that list wooohoooo for firestone firehawks

Frosty · 01-02-2006, 11:48 AM

Hmmm, I'll have to check out some of those tires.

When I got my new rims I snagged a set of OEM Goodyear GS's...now I see why people ditched them back in 98-99 or whenever they were came on our cars.

God they suck lol

Firebird67dude · 01-02-2006, 01:58 PM

IDK i got those goodyear tires on the back of the T/A now n i think they suck. Burnouts in em suck they dont leave any type of marks n idk they make the car just feel lik itrs floating on they highway.

Frosty · 01-02-2006, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Firebird67dude

IDK i got those goodyear tires on the back of the T/A now n i think they suck. Burnouts in em suck they dont leave any type of marks n idk they make the car just feel lik itrs floating on they highway.

What goodyear tires? The GS-D3's?

turbo96z28 · 01-02-2006, 09:57 PM

i really think the Contis are a bit over-rated. i'm not saying they are bad, but on some applications they feel somewhat soft.

Hankooks are a good tire at they're price point.

the Dunlops are a good tire for most applications, but tend to wear quicker than they should IMO.

Pirellis are great tires, but age prematurely. they develop dry rot and cracking far sooner than they should due to the way they heat cycle.

me personally......can't beat BFGs. although i love the Z-rated Police spec RS-As i have on my 96 now, wet weather traction feels great on the highway, but pulling away from a light when the road is slippery usually nets me a low traction light. when i go up to the 17s, KDWs or Comp T/As are in my future, but i'll be hanging on to my Goodyears.

Frosty · 01-02-2006, 10:12 PM

I liked my RSA's. They don't come in 17'' size do they?

turbo96z28 · 01-02-2006, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Frosty

I liked my RSA's. They don't come in 17'' size do they?

not in any size that an F-body owner would be interested in

Frosty · 01-02-2006, 10:43 PM

I had them on the stock rims on the Z 245/50/16

I didn't like them at first but now having those ****box OEM Goodyear GS's I want my RSA's back lol

BigAls87Z28 · 01-03-2006, 01:05 AM

RSA= JUNK!! While a great design...10 years ago...they are a waste. There are plenty of tires out there that can do the job better then the RSA. Kumo ASX or a BFG Gforce KDWS are better non-semetrical tires.

Frosty · 01-03-2006, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

RSA= JUNK!! While a great design...10 years ago...they are a waste. There are plenty of tires out there that can do the job better then the RSA. Kumo ASX or a BFG Gforce KDWS are better non-semetrical tires.

Eh, I was able to cut a sub 2.0 60' time on them..that was good enough for me. Are there better tires out there? Of course but any tire can get me a 2.0 and hold up on the 1-2 shift(my trans shifts hard 1-2) is decent in my book.

BigAls87Z28 · 01-03-2006, 01:08 PM

Im talking about the handling and driving of the tires. I have had several customers hate the tire, on top of a lot of premature wear. My boss had them on his GTP, and he couldnt stand it.

All tires act differently with different sizes. If you look at reviews of the BFG KDW on a smaller width tire, they are poor, but when you get up to the big 255 and 275, they reviews are gleeming.

Frosty · 01-03-2006, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

Im talking about the handling and driving of the tires. I have had several customers hate the tire, on top of a lot of premature wear. My boss had them on his GTP, and he couldnt stand it.

All tires act differently with different sizes. If you look at reviews of the BFG KDW on a smaller width tire, they are poor, but when you get up to the big 255 and 275, they reviews are gleeming.

I never really pushed them cornering wise but I can tell you the wear wasn't the best.

turbo96z28 · 01-03-2006, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

RSA= JUNK!! While a great design...10 years ago...they are a waste. There are plenty of tires out there that can do the job better then the RSA. Kumo ASX or a BFG Gforce KDWS are better non-semetrical tires.

i do agree there are better tires out there, which is why i'm going with BFGs for my 17s. but the RS-As aren't bad in my experience for normal driving. only problem is, some districts still use them for patrol cars. you don't even want to know how many cracked-up cop cars we get after some rain or some over-zealous driving.

slugger27nj · 01-03-2006, 08:55 PM

I have KDWS 17's on mine, and they're great....much better than the GS-C's that were on there. They're great in the rain, and last winter I actually had to back 1/2 way up an entrance ramp to Rt 18 on an inch of solid ice because of a 15 car pile-up at the bottom....I had my doubts at first, but it went pretty easily which was impressive.

Ian · 01-03-2006, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by slugger27nj

last winter I actually had to back 1/2 way up an entrance ramp to Rt 18 on an inch of solid ice because of a 15 car pile-up at the bottom....I had my doubts at first, but it went pretty easily which was impressive.

thats nuts!