Tires Continental or RIKEN

I was running Conti ECS 02s on my just recently traded in 2022 GT RF and they were fantastic. Can’t wait to put those on my 2025 RF Club as soon as I need tires. Huge difference in both wet and dry. Coming from 2 sets on Michelin pilot sports and 2 sets of pilot sport 4s on my old Stage 3 8V Audi S3 and the Conti’s are very very similar to me in what I do as far as aggressive driving.

Riken Raptor ZR A/S RF. These tires were under $400 for a SET (about $86 per tire). 300tw. Aggressive tire pattern. And they are a solid performer for canyon carving. I drove them about 4000 miles over a week this past summer around MATG including some pretty aggressive backroad driving and they held up VERY well. Insanely well given the price.

I’ll put a vote in for conti extreme contact sports, the car feels so good on the 2 sets I’ve been through so far.

Only downside is that they seem to wear somewhat quickly, my last set only lasted me like 12k, but it being my fun car, it pretty much only sees fairly hard use

I switched off of those to a set of Continental Vikingcontact 8 this year. I don't know if it's because my Xice were old or what but I find the contis to be about 50% (subjective, obviously) better than the michelins

This probably would never happen with some continental extreme contact sport 02\u2019s on there

My wife had continental extreme contacts on her civic, they were a little expensive but worth ever penny. I used to take that shit box skiing on powder days, they are good tires!

I also live in the PNW and have Continental DWS06+ and they are incredible in the rain and light snow.

Been using VikingContact 7s and 8s now for a bit and been very happy with them.

I've found conti are good until 50% worn then they're like train tracks

The continentals on my moms car started doing this, I have no idea why as well but they needed to be replaced anyway.