Auto Express, Britain’s biggest selling motoring weekly magazine, today revealed the results of its comprehensive test of 16 tyre brands. The test compared stopping distances, handling, grip, fuel consumption, in car-noise levels and prices to determine the champion in the highly competitive family car tyre market. The test featured one of the biggest selling tyre sizes (215/55VR16) fitted to a Volkswagen Passat.
The Goodyear was consistently strong in all areas of the test, and excelled in the wet, particularly in the curved aquaplaning test. This test measures the amount of grip a car has whilst turning a constant radius corner, similar to a curving sliproad on a motorway intersection.
In this test, the Goodyear HydraGrip had an incredible 15 per cent more grip than any other tyre tested, and a staggering 49 per cent more grip than one other popular brand.
“The Goodyear was miles ahead of the rest – it was so good, we could feel it from behind the (steering) wheel, holding its grip through the soaked section after many rivals had just steered off” declared the Auto Express test driver.
“Our advertising states ‘Not all tyres are the same,’ and this test truly demonstrates that. To have more than 50% more grip in one of the most dangerous driving situations proves the merits of Goodyear HydraGrip and its innovative 3D-BIS technology” stated Ben Crawley, Brand Support Manager, Goodyear.
3D–BIS is Goodyear’s patented Three Dimensional Block Interlocking System. This technology equips the tyre with as many biting edges as possible to provide excellent behaviour in aquaplaning and on wet roads while at the same time preserving the precise and dynamic handling characteristics of a high performance tyre with its stiff solid tread blocks. HydraGrip’s 3D-Bis Technology also increases the blade length with worn tyres and therefore improves the tyre’s wet performance during the whole tyre life.
This is the second tyre test win for Goodyear this week, following the Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric’s domination of the Evo Magazine test of ultra high performance sportscar tyres.
