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SUMMER TYRE TEST 2025
Auto Express
|August 13, 2025
Nine brands go head to head in our annual test, but which one should you put on your car?
THE subject of our 2025 summer tyre test is the bestselling 18-inch tyre, the 225/40 R18. It's three years since we last put this size through the comprehensive Auto Express test regime and back then there were Covid-related supply issues that saw some big names absent. It was a close contest, with the Bridgestone Potenza Sport just seeing off the Goodyear Eagle Asymmetric 6 for the win, with the Maxxis Victra Sport 5 a healthy third.
This story is from the August 13, 2025 edition of Auto Express.
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