Car & Driver tire test: 9 low buck offrerings

[TigerNSX]

From Car & Driver, summarized by Tirerack:

Could any of these nine low cost offerings knock off the Pilot Sport PS2? The Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 in the test size of 225/45-17 costs $192.00.

Here's where the challengers come in price wise:
BF Goodrich G-Force T/A KDW2 ($126)
Bridgestone Potenza RE760 Sport ($132)
Dunlop Direzza Sport Z1 Star Spec ($137)
Falken Azenis RT-615 ($121)
Hankook Ventus V12 EVO ($106)
Kumho Ecsta XS ($120)
Ling Long L688 ($57)
Nitto Invo ($117)
Yokohama S-Drive ($115)

The test covered several different areas of performance. AutoX , skid pad , braking , price and ride quality. I am not going to reproduce the entire article but, here are some of the numbers

AutoX times wet/dry

Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 60.7 / 60.1

BF Goodrich G-Force T/A KDW2 61.3 / 59.6
Bridgestone Potenza RE760 Sport 62.5 / 60.1
Dunlop Direzza Sport Z1 Star Spec 60.8 / 59.3
Falken Azenis RT-615 64.2 / 59.8
Hankook Ventus V12 EVO 61.0 / 59.8
Kumho Ecsta XS 65.4 / 59.0
Ling Long L688 61.1 / 65.8
Nitto Invo 61.9 / 60.5
Yokohama S-Drive 61.5 / 60.3

SKIDPAD, g's wet / dry

Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 0.88 / 0.92

BF Goodrich G-Force T/A KDW2 0.85 / 0.91
Bridgestone Potenza RE760 Sport 0.80 / 0.90
Dunlop Direzza Sport Z1 Star Spec 0.86 / 0.92
Falken Azenis RT-615 0.80 / 0.91
Hankook Ventus V12 EVO 0.87 / 0.93
Kumho Ecsta XS 0.77 / 0.94
Ling Long L688 0.73 / 0.88
Nitto Invo 0.82 / 0.91
Yokohama S-Drive 0.84 / 0.88

After the testing the Car and Driver test drivers and staffers still consider the Pilot Sport PS2 the top summer performance tire.

Final Results for the challengers

#1 Dunlop Star Spec
#2 Hankook V12 EVO
#3 Kumho Ecsta XS
#4 Bridgestone RE760
#5 BF Goodrich KDW2
#6 Yokohama S-Drive
#7 Falken Azenis
#8 Nitto Invo
#9 Lin Long L688

 

[Black 94 #400]

Thanks for the post, getting ready to make a purchase for the rears :wink:

I presently have the Falken Azenis RT-615 on the nsx their great tires. Only complain I have is they wear out to quickly. tread wear is 200, I’m considering move up to 240 to 280 tread wear, I had 300 tw (COMP T/A’s) on at one time, away to hard of a compound in my option for the nsx to work (drive) properly. I had no problems RT-615 in rainy conditions, plus I would think most of us aren’t going push are nsx's hard in the rain. Just my 2 cent

 

[Moses]

Ya, but which one weighs less:tongue:

 

[angus]

I have found the PS2 is much lighter than most other tires.

 

[Jimbo]

It was a good review. I was particularly interested in the poor wet weather performance of the Kumhos.

Considering that the NSX is not the most wet weather friendly car to begin with (and there's been many, many instances of wrecked NSXs due to wet roads) - I'm not going with Kumhos. The Dunlops seems to be the best choice for street use.

-Jim

 

[dablackgoku1234]

Ling Long? Com'on..those are Wanli knock offs

 

[Onsoku]

It was a good review. I was particularly interested in the poor wet weather performance of the Kumhos.

Considering that the NSX is not the most wet weather friendly car to begin with (and there's been many, many instances of wrecked NSXs due to wet roads) - I'm not going with Kumhos. The Dunlops seems to be the best choice for street use.

-Jim

Can't go wrong with the Z1 Star...on my second set with no complaints, except road noise towards the end of life.

 

[White92]

Can't go wrong with the Z1 Star...on my second set with no complaints, except road noise towards the end of life.

How many miles are you getting?

 

[Onsoku]

Got over 15k miles on the last set.