Tires Goodyear or Nokia
Purchased x2 Goodyear Reliant All-Season 205/60R16 for my 01 Lexus ES300. Pretty good tire, very comfortable ride.
FWIW with regular rotations we got 35K out of my wife’s factory 20” Goodyear F1 tires.
Goodyear assurance weatherready 2. Similar design to cross climates, supposedly better, but they just came out in August so not a lot of test info from outside sources. I just got these put on today on my 25 palisade riding on 20’s and they are comfortable and quiet.
Nokian tires are pretty good. It's not a Goodyear, but they will perform very well.
Honestly, if you have the option to get the Nokian Hakkas I would grab those. I had Nokian Haakas when I had my Golf about 8 years ago for 4 winters in Montreal. I used to drive to the mountains to go snowboarding with my daughter on weekends at the cottage and never had an issue with driving. We get ice, dumps of snow, slush and just about everything you can get in a winter season that always seems to last forever. Looooooved the Haakas.
For a guy who lives in Finnish coast. We used Nokian since it is local, but other brands and models that I often see are Michelin X Ice and Michelin studded tyre variant, Continental Viking Contact or its studded variant, lastly Goodyear Ultragrip Ice or its studded variant.
My work van has the Nokian Remedy WR G5 after coming off of Toyo Celsius (yeah, never going down the Toyo road again with a passenger all-weather tire, at least in the foreseeable future), so far they have been solid and performed well this fall, much quieter and more stable than the Toyos...
I have been using Goodyear Vector4Seasons here on my Citroen van year round, no noticeable drop in range, and they have lasted twice the distance to the Michelin Primacy 4 that was on it from new. They are a grippy in the dry, no loss of grip in the wet, and not any more expensive than summer tyres I would otherwise run.
I dailied +0 sized duratracs on a stock 2007 4runner for a few years. At 40psi and they were great in just about everything on weekends. But I hated them on damp pavement (concrete highway specifically on big turns at speed felt like they wanted to slip)
Not a fan of Nokian, they slip like crazy. I have some of their all seasons on my RX350 and they are like hockey pucks, just sliding everywhere.
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