Tires Hankook or SUMITOMO

The Hankooks are a great tire in an odd position in the marketplace. You could call them a very comfortable performance tire, or a very performant touring tire. Since I live in Texas and do so many highway miles, I love them.

Mėgstu hankook. Geras brandas, gana tyliai ir minkštai važiuojasi, sukibimas geras, realiai vos ne pigiausios iš premium klasės.

Sumitomo HTR A/S PO3s have been able to handle anything that comes our way.

I just swapped out for another pair of New Englanders on a RAV4, got 52,000 out of the last set.  They are quiet, traction hasn’t been a problem, live in northern New England.

My 2023 20th AE Golf R came with Hankook tires, and I've been very pleased with them. I'm a fairly aggressive driver and frequent the twisty roads in the Santa Monica Mountains. the Hankooks seem to perform almost as well in the dry, but outshine the PS4s in the wet.

We wore out the OEMs at 40k and picked up a set of Sumitomo P03 tires. Extremely happy with them. They're not strictly EV tires so there's some efficiency loss (maybe 5-10%?) but the car is much grippier, especially in wet and slushy conditions. Also, it's just way more comfortable of a ride. Kind of doubt they'll last through the manufacturer warranty of 50k miles but also it was just under $100/tire installed at DiscountTire so I'm not terribly concerned

Yes. I have the same tires on my 2020 Mazda 6 turbo. They are ok for mpg, but not great for bad weather or high torque fwd.

I averaged 2.3 mi/kWh with the stock Hankook AT2’s on my Lariat. I replaced them with the same size Hankook AT2 Xtreme’s, which is basically a slightly more aggressive version of the stock tire that’s 3-peak rated and not EV rated/low rolling resistance. It dropped me to a 2.2 mi/kWh average.

These tires came on my car, so they got the brunt of the new car testing fun. While these were good tires for: noise, efficiency I didn't think I'm going to get these again due to: Hydroplane prone. Winter traction: passable, but not great. Dry handling: again, not great, you could feel the tires wanting to give up in some cornering situations.

I learned this for myself a long time ago when I had decided to go cheap for once and get some Sumitomo. I could feel the car's handling characteristics changed immediately (it felt like the back was "gliding" in the turns leaving the parking lot, which was probably sidewall flex).