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Setec Astronomy · 11-15-05, 09:05

So, I found this synopsis of a Swedish newspaper's winter tire test, which blasts the Blizzak WS-50 in favor of the Michelin X-Ice and Nokian Hakka RSi (at least for easily available tires in the US). Looking at the tires in the German test I noted earlier in the thread, the Vredestein SnowTrac 2 seems to be grouped with more performance-oriented tires rather than studless snows (although I can't tell if the Vredestein was tested in the Swedish test, unless someone can translate--links here ) Again, to confuse things more, the newer Blizzak REVO 1 seems to be rated slightly higher (at the Tire Rack) than the WS-50, so it's possible it would have fared better in the Swedish test than the WS-50.

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Setec Astronomy Registered User Setec Astronomy is offline Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 9,890	So, I found this synopsis of a Swedish newspaper's winter tire test, which blasts the Blizzak WS-50 in favor of the Michelin X-Ice and Nokian Hakka RSi (at least for easily available tires in the US). Looking at the tires in the German test I noted earlier in the thread, the Vredestein SnowTrac 2 seems to be grouped with more performance-oriented tires rather than studless snows (although I can't tell if the Vredestein was tested in the Swedish test, unless someone can translate--links here ) Again, to confuse things more, the newer Blizzak REVO 1 seems to be rated slightly higher (at the Tire Rack) than the WS-50, so it's possible it would have fared better in the Swedish test than the WS-50. __________________ Grumpy like Ketch... "Well, it certainly does!"