Vehicles using 225/60R16 Tire Size:
- Audi A6
- Buick LeSabre
- Buick Lucerne
- Buick LaCrosse
- Chevrolet Uplander
- Chevrolet Impala
- Chrysler Town & Country
- Dodge Grand Caravan
- Ford Crown Victoria
- Kia Amanti
- Kia Sportage
- Mitsubishi Outlander
- Mercedes-Benz S-Class
- Subaru Legacy
- Subaru Outback
- Toyota Sienna
1. Pirelli P4 Persist AS Plus - Best All-Season tire
Let’s kick this list off with a great value in an all-season tire, the Pirelli P4 Persist AS Plus. For decades, Pirelli has developed a reputation for top-shelf engineering, quality, and value. A heritage like that is a lot to live up to, but the P4 Persist AS Plus does a great job of keeping that legacy alive. It’s a tire that’s engineered to deliver the long wear, refined ride, responsive handling, and low noise that are more like what you’d expect of a Grand Touring tire, along with versatile year-round traction. The Pirelli P4 Persist AS Plus is designed for low rolling resistance, which saves on fuel costs over the life of the tire. Highway road manners, handling, and wear properties are all excellent thanks to the reinforced shoulders, designed to be rigid enough for reduced tread squirm, the kind of design that a performance-oriented tire needs as it stands up to the hard lateral forces of cornering. The P4 Persist AS Plus enhances wet-weather performance and avoids hydroplaning with circumferential grooves that channel water away from the tire’s contact patch, and its angled lateral grooves work to engage mechanical grip on wet or dry pavement. The solid center rib in the middle of the P4 Persist AS Plus’s tread is designed for secure straight-line stability at highway speed as well as a steering response that’s nimble and immediate. Tread life is another strong point with the P4 Persist AS Plus – Pirelli backs this tire with an 85,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty. That all comes out to SimpleScores of 9.7 for traction, 9.9 for longevity, 9.5 for handling, and an overall composite SimpleScore of 9.7.
2. Goodyear Assurance WeatherReady - Best All-Weather tire
As a category, all-weather tires might be a little unfamiliar to some drivers. All-weather tires are designed to more or less split the difference between all-season tires and winter tires; in other words, they’re like all-season tires with improved traction in winter conditions. The Goodyear Assurance WeatherReady is designed from the ground up with an environmentally sustainable, silica-rich, soy-based tread compound that delivers dependable traction and long, even wear. Beneath the tread, you’ll find two wide steel belts reinforcing a single-ply polyester casing, and a polyamide layer designed for high-speed stability, ride comfort, and sharp steering response. Goodyear designed the Assurance WeatherReady for year-round traction with a system that includes outboard ribs for traction on wet or snowy roads, Goodyear’s 3D TredLock Technology Blades, and specially designed sipes in the tread’s center. Even as the miles pile up, the tire wears down and tread depth becomes thinner and thinner, Evolving Traction Grooves are designed to open up wider and keep providing traction. A system of Sweeping Tread Grooves and the tire’s circumferential grooves work to route water from the tire’s contact patch and resist the tendency to hydroplane. Winter traction in snow and slush gets a boost from Zigzag Biting Edges along the tire’s inboard ribs, earning the Goodyear Assurance WeatherReady the tire industry’s Three Peak Mountain Snowflake certification for severe winter service. Goodyear backs the Assurance WeatherReady with a 60,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty.
3. Bridgestone Blizzak WS90 - Best Winter tire
Our pick for a winter tire in the 225/60R16 size is going to be the Bridgestone Blizzak WS90. The Blizzak WS90 is a studless tire that has the Three Peak Mountain Snowflake certification for severe winter service and is engineered as an update from the Blizzak WS90. Its specialized winter tread formulation includes multicell technology and is embedded with tiny bite particles for better friction on snow, slush, and ice, yet it stays flexible for dependable grip on sub-freezing days. Putting the most rubber in contact with the road, the Blizzak WS90’s winter tread features a solid center rib with large tread blocks and a combination of sipes, circumferential and angled grooves to chew through snow and slush. We give this tire an outstanding SimpleScore of 9.6 for traction. Its contact patch is redesigned for the best braking, traction, and control, and tread block stiffness is enhanced for sharp steering response and cornering. SimpleScore for handling: 8.7. That enhanced footprint also helps with the Blizzak WS90’s wear properties – even though the Blizzak WS90 doesn’t have a treadwear warranty (most winter tires don’t), we give a SimpleScore of 8.6 for longevity. Overall SimpleScore for the Bridgestone Blizzak WS90 is a very respectable 9.1.
4. Falken Ziex ZE960 A/S - Best UHP All-Season tire
Next up is a UHP all-season tire, the Falken Ziex ZE960 A/S. We’ve been pretty impressed with everything from the Falken product line for a while, and the ZE960 A/S is no exception. The Ziex ZE960 A/S isn’t technically a UHP tire, but it does meet expectations for the kind of performance you’d expect with UHP tires – but, in a premium all-season tire package. The Ziex ZE960 A/S includes Falken's innovative Flask Siping and a system of circumferential, angled, lateral, and cross-hatch grooves for enhanced hydroplaning resistance, chalking up a very solid SimpleScore of 8.6 for traction. Steering response, cornering, and braking are all direct and precise, with a tread face that’s optimized for rigidity and robust internal construction. All told we gave this tire a SimpleScore of 8.6 for handling. The 60,000 mile warranty from Falken makes this tire a great value, with a very respectable SimpleScore of 9.1 in the handling category. The overall composite score for the Falken Ziex ZE960 A/S is 8.6.
5. Firestone Weathergrip - Great All-Weather tire
We’re going to close out this roundup with another great all-weather tire, the Firestone Weathergrip. Firestone designed the Weathergrip’s tread with a dense network of sipes, the hair-thin slits that give you an advantage in winter traction with hundreds of extra biting edges that dig into snow and slush. While most tires naturally lose traction as the miles pile up and as tread depth wears down, Firestone's innovative sipes are a 3D design that can keep boosting winter traction as the tire wears, along with “snow vices” that trap and hold onto snow in the tread, to build snow-to-snow friction and grip. For wet pavement, Firestone’s Hydro-Grip Technology package ups the game with chamfered grooves, slotted shoulders, and a fat, rounded contact patch. Wearing its winter traction credentials on its sidewall, the Firestone Weathergrip has the Three Peak Mountain Snowflake certification stamp for severe winter service; head-to-head tests against the competition show that braking distances are as much as 30 feet shorter in winter weather. After crunching the numbers, we gave the Weathergrip a SimpleScore of 8.6 for traction. Road manners, steering response, and cornering ability are all top-notch; the Weathergrip’s SimpleScore of 8.6 for handling comes from its rubber formulation and tread features. The Weathergrip gets a SimpleScore of 9.2 for longevity, as Firestone backs the Weathergrip with a best-in-class 65,000 mile limited manufacturer’s tread life warranty. Overall SimpleScore for the Firestone Weathergrip: 8.7.
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