By design, all-season tires trade a little dry and wet road traction in moderate and warm temperatures to provide light snow traction in below freezing temperatures (best suited to the 20- to 100-degree Fahrenheit range). Winter tires trade a little dry and wet road handling in moderate and warm temperatures to emphasize wet, ice and snow traction in cold to moderate temperatures (best suited for 0- to 50-degree Fahrenheit range).

In order to get a better understanding of how much ice traction is provided by summer, all-season and winter tire types, members of The Tire Rack Team recently conducted an "Ice Rink Performance Drive" on the glare ice of a skating rink. We compared Bridgestone's Ultra High Performance Summer Potenza RE750 to their Standard Touring All-Season Turanza EL400, as well as to two Blizzak Winter tires, the popular Blizzak WS-50 and the new Blizzak REVO 1.

What We Learned at the Ice Rink
http://www.tirerack.com/a.jsp?a=DJ1&..._tire_type.jsp


Read More About the Tires in This Test.

Bridgestone Blizzak REVO 1
http://www.tirerack.com/a.jsp?a=DJ1&...Blizzak+Revo+1

Bridgestone Blizzak WS-50
http://www.tirerack.com/a.jsp?a=DJ1&...=Blizzak+WS-50

Bridgestone Turanza EL400
http://www.tirerack.com/a.jsp?a=DJ1&...=Turanza+EL400

Bridgestone Potenza RE750
http://www.tirerack.com/a.jsp?a=DJ1&...=Potenza+RE750



Read Other Test Results
http://www.tirerack.com/a.jsp?a=DJ1&...testSearch.jsp

 

Thanks for the posting, Jim. I'll read, Am lucky to enjoy summer tires here in winter.


They sure do work better than the OEM all-seasons.

a bump for your posting and an edu for me about snow tires I hope I should never need unless Global Warming is reversed and then some.

hah.

 

I've had great experiences with Blizzak tires. Especially the WS-50. GREAT traction! Plus I then sold them on eBay 3 years later for almost the same price at which I bought them lol.

 

Holy spamming the board for sales, Batman!

Three threads including a sticky about winter tires on one page is a bit much. Relax. If people want winter tires, they'll get them.