Sure on ice and snow they always win. But I'm talking about being here, where it's dry and not really cold. Some pretty interesting reads/watches. These basically describe our conditions here most of the winter. We won't likely see anything on the roads freezing/snow this year. I'm actually doing a track weekend in 2 weeks a bit further south at VIR and will just drive there on my 200s. Believe me, I'd love to try some winter tires if we got a snow day to add that to my driving experience and see how much better they are but just no way to justify another set the tires/wheels for a day or two a year.
Consumer Reports has just finished evaluating 47 all-season and performance all-season tires suitable for cars, crossovers, and minivans and 21 models of winter/snow tires. And we’re ready and able to present the best and worst tires in these popular categories.
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Stopping on Dry and Wet Roads
Most all-season and performance all-season tires stop well on dry and wet pavement. In our dry stopping test from 60 mph, the Goodyear Eagle Sport All-Season needed only 120 feet to come to halt on our
2015 Toyota Camry. In the wet, the Michelin Premier A/S (H-speed rated) impressed us with its relatively short stop of 129 feet.
Winter tires generally don’t stop well on either dry or wet surfaces, often needing several more car lengths more than all-season tires.
So it’s no surprise the longest stopping tire on dry and wet roads was a winter tire, the Toyo Observe Gsi-5. Stops from 60 mph were 168 and 189 feet on dry and wet roads, respectively. That’s reason enough to remove winter/snow tires once the snow stops falling.
I found this one interesting, I actually had no idea that a summer would do anything when it's that cold! Mine feel pretty hard in that 35-40 range.