Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
Pirelli P Zero Nero ranked fairly low at 13 in consumer survey for Max Performance Summer tires, while Michelin Pilot Super Sport is first for $25 more per tire.
Of all consumer surveys, the surveys for tires are probably the least reliable; in fact, generally, they are contrary. With the extended mileage of modern tires, few cars get more than two sets of tires in their lifetime, so the consumer usually is rating a new OEM tire (which -- performance cars excluded -- are usually cheap compromise tires within the tire maker's line) on a car that he or she has just started to drive vs. the worn-out tires on an older car that was traded in for the new car, or is rating a brand-new replacement tire vs. a spent OEM tire that probably had been worn down to the wear bars. Moreover, individual consumers have wildly different criteria for what makes a tire "good." Treadwear probably is the top criterion for more consumers than any other, for instance, but it is a low criterion for me personally, for whom wet braking is the top criterion. For some consumers, tread noise (which, in almost all tires, varies over the life of the tire) is the only quality of a tire that is important. So consumer surveys of tires are random noise themselves, more chaff than wheat, and no way to sort out valid opinions from blather.
Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
I had Hankook Ventus V12 evo K110 on my S2000, it was very good on dry and so so on wet, fairly quiet at highway speed upward 80-90 MPH.
If you don't mind paying $100 more for 4 tires then Michelin Pilot Super Sport is much better choice. If you like to spend a little less then Hankook Ventus V12 evo K110 is better.
We have run both Pirelli P Zero Nero and Ventus V12 evo K110 tires on our Mazda6 -- for a while, both together, with a pair of the directional V12s at the front and a pair of the asymmetrical 'Neros at the rear. I concur that the Hankooks were surprisingly better than the Pirellis for my criteria; I had great expectations for the Pirellis, based upon earlier Pirellis that we had run, but the Hankooks were superior for our application.
However, the tires that we are running now, Dunlop SP Sport MAXX TT, are really good for wet braking, handling, and road noise, and may be the best tires that we have ever had fitted to any car. They are better in those respects than even the Hankook V12s were.