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Old 11-10-2019, 07:44 AM   #1474
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What does this mean? What is a prem car performance winter tire? Were you expecting a low profile winter tire? If you run a wider wheel it would not be so round. 8in wheel should get a 225/xx
Continental markets the tire as being for mid sized luxury cars and SUV - it's not quite in the class of the Pilot Alpin or Sottozeros for performance and not in the snow chomping class of Blizzaks and X-Ice. From what I can tell on their grid of products it's kinda between a Pilot Alpin and Latitude Alpin.

For that kind of tire I'm surprised how narrow the tread and how round the sidewall shape actually is in practice - it's rounder than the Blizzaks and X-Ices that I've used. It doesn't seem to affect performance as the steering response is WAY better than on my Blizzaks (WS80), just an appearance preference.
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