All-season tires are a great choice for most drivers, for a variety of reasons. All-season tires are practical and versatile; they offer year-round performance in about every kind of road condition other than heavy snow, along with excellent wear properties, ride quality that’s quiet and accommodating, road manners that are stable and sedate, capable handling and quick, nimble steering response.

It’s even better if all-season tires can give you a little more upgraded level of handling and cornering ability, and better still if they come in at an affordable price point. The Touring Sport AS from Achilles is an all-season tire that checks all those boxes; it’s a strong performer that comes with a 55,000 miles limited manufacturer’s tread life coverage, and it looks even better once you check out its budget price. Let’s get in there and get a closer look at this Achilles Touring Sport AS tire review, shall we?

Features and Benefits

Here are some of the innovations and design features that make the Touring Sport AS from Achilles a great value and a great performer for its price point:

• The contact patch is redesigned and optimized to put more rubber in contact with the road for improved wear properties, braking, road manners, and control
• Advanced tread formulation is designed for long wear and dependable grip on wet roads
• System of wide circumferential grooves and angled grooves, designed for wet-weather grip
• Resists hydroplaning on wet roads by rerouting water away from the tire’s contact patch
• Reinforced shoulder blocks enhance the tread’s rigidity for improved steering response, cornering, all-around stability
• Continuous center rib gives the Touring Sport AS great straight-line stability as well as a steering response that’s nimble and light
• Tread pitch is randomized and computer-tuned for a serene, muted driving experience, canceling certain frequencies and overtones for reduced highway noise
• Covered by a 55,000 mile limited manufacturer’s tread life warranty
• The tread features a network of sipes, hair-thin slits that multiply the tread’s surface area and traction and slice through rain or light snow

Pros and Cons

PROS:

• Very affordable price point
• Generous limited manufacturer’s tread life coverage
• Handling and cornering are predictable and consistent
• Quiet and refined ride quality

CONS:

• Not good in heavier snow

SimpleTire’s view on Achilles Touring Sport AS tires

Are you up to speed with SimpleScore? The SimpleScore system is a rating method that we developed here at the SimpleTire team, giving you a quick, at-a-glance idea of any tire’s strengths and weaknesses. We look at the tire’s technical details, manufacturer’s info, customer reviews, specs, and other data points, and then we process all that to a 1-10 numerical score for the categories of traction, handling, and longevity, along with an overall average SimpleScore. For the Achilles Touring Sport AS, the SimpleScore numbers break down this way:

Achilles Touring Sport AS:

• Traction: 7.6
• Handling: 8.0
• Longevity: 8.8
• Overall average SimpleScore: 8.1

Those SimpleScore numbers are pretty respectable, and they look even better when you consider that the SimpleTire price on the Achilles Touring Sport AS runs from $51.96 to $115.96 per tire depending on the tire size selected.

Cornering ability with the Achilles Touring Sport AS is precise and predictable; it hangs right in even when going hot into a turn, with few evident vices and little tendency toward understeer. The continuous center rib of the Touring Sport AS gives it solid stability for straight-line drives on the interstate, with little need for constant correction, but it’s never a numb or sluggish road feel. Steering response is light and direct, but never overly sensitive or jittery, and the Achilles Touring Sport AS keeps its composure even when negotiating rough or irregular pavement surfaces.

On wet pavement, the Achilles Touring Sport AS feels confident and firmly glued to the pavement, although admittedly it doesn’t perform well in winter conditions any more serious than light snow (after all, that’s not what a tire like this is intended for). The 55,000 mile limited manufacturer’s tread life warranty is the kind of mileage warranty that you used to only find on premium brand tires that cost much more. All in all, it’s our opinion that the Achilles Touring Sport AS is an excellent prospect for an affordable all-season tire for sedans, minivans, and crossovers. It’s the kind of tire you should consider if you need a set of all-season tires for an older vehicle, but you don’t want to empty a bank account to be able to do it.

Vehicles the Achilles Touring Sport AS is a good replacement tire for

While the Achilles Touring Sport AS isn’t featured as OEM on any vehicles, it would make a great aftermarket replacement all-season tire for cars, minivans, and crossovers such as these:

• Acura TLX
• Audi A5
• BMW 5 Series
• Buick Verano
• Chevrolet Cruze
• Dodge Charger
• Ford Mustang
• Honda Civic
• Hyundai Sonata
• Kia K5
• Mazda3
• Nissan Altima
• Toyota Supra
• Volkswagen Passat
• Kia Sephia