In the arena of all-season tires for sedans, minivans, crossovers, and SUVs, many options exist at the more affordable end of the price range. In most cases, there’s a direct tie-in between price and quality, but there are also plenty of affordable options on all-season touring tires that deliver surprisingly good performance and value.

The Americus Recon Tour is a good example of a tire that punches above its price point; it’s a tire that’s designed for a quiet and comfortable ride, year-round performance and excellent wear properties.

But don’t just take us at our word on that; let’s go in and get a closer look with this Americus Recon Tour review:

Features and Benefits

Here are a few of the features and innovations that make the Americus Recon Tour a great value:

• Tread pitch, profile, and casing design optimized to reduce road noise and vibrations by canceling certain frequencies and overtones
• The next-generation tread compound is designed for long, even wear and dependable traction on wet or dry pavement
• Wide circumferential grooves evacuate standing water from the tire’s tread footprint to mitigate any tendency toward hydroplaning
• A dense network of sipes multiplies the tread’s surface area and traction with hundreds of edges to slice through snow, slush, water
• Covered by 70,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty
• Initial tread depth 10/32” for long wear, excellent traction
• Available in a wide range of sizes for various fitments
• Reinforced shoulder helps enhance the cornering ability and reduce tread squirm during hard maneuvers
• A solid center rib gives the tire good road manners and straight-line stability as well as enhancing steering response

Pros and Cons

So, is this Americus tire the right choice for your ride and budget? Before you decide, let’s take a look at the tire’s pros and cons.

PROS:

• Excellent tread life warranty
• Handling and responsiveness are predictable and stable
• Ride quality is composed and quiet
• Dependable traction in wet, dry, or light wintry conditions

CONS:

• It can be noisy on some pavement surfaces
• The tire is not Three Peak Mountain Snowflake certified, so it shouldn’t be used in moderate to severe winter weather conditions

SimpleTire’s view on Americus Recon Tour tires

Americus tires are part of the American Omni family of tires; other American Omni brands include Vercelli, Venezia, Deestone, Thunderer, and Lancaster. Are you familiar with SimpleTire’s SimpleScore ratings system? SimpleScore is what the SimpleTire team devised to give you a quick at-a-glance idea of a tire’s capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses. In the case of the Americus Recon, our SimpleScore ratings are:

• Traction: 7.9
• Handling: 8.2
• Longevity: 7.7
• Overall average SimpleScore: 7.9

Designed for premium sedans, minivans, crossovers, and SUVs, the Americus Recon Tour tire family are top-quality touring tires that deliver confident performance year-round. Americus Recon Tour tires feature a 5-rib all-season tread with wide circumferential grooves to help resist hydroplaning and a pattern of 3D sipes that give them an advantage in grip in wintry conditions. Their tread pitch is randomized and computer-tuned to negate certain frequencies and overtones to keep road noise low and isolate passengers and drivers from roughness and vibrations.

On the highway, the Americus Recon Tour delivers the kind of dead-solid straight-line tracking that makes long road trips a pleasure, with a solid center rib that also enhances steering response for quick maneuvers. Handling is light and precise, with little tendency toward understeer or oversteer going into corners, even when the tire is pushed hard. On wet pavement, the Recon Tour is confident and predictable, with its circumferential groove design easily evacuating water through and behind the tire’s contact patch to resist hydroplaning. A 70,000 mile limited manufacturer’s tread life warranty is phenomenal for any tire at this price point (really, it’s the kind of warranty coverage you’d expect from premium tires that cost far more), and its balance of a comfortable and quiet ride, dependable grip, capable handling, and exemplary road manners make the Americus Recon Tour a great value for anyone who’s looking for top performance in an all-season tire but doesn’t want to empty a bank account to do it.

Want to learn more about the tire? Take a look at our Americus Recon Tour vs Nexen N'Priz AH5 review.

Vehicles the Americus Recon Tour is a good replacement tire for

While the Americus Recon Tour isn’t featured as OEM for any vehicles, it would be a great prospect for a replacement tire for vehicles such as these:

• Buick Envision
• Kia Forte
• Hyundai Tucson
• Honda Pilot
• Chevrolet Traverse
• GMC Acadia
• Jeep Cherokee
• Dodge Caravan
• Chrysler Pacifica
• Ford Escape
• Mazda CX-5
• Nissan Murano
• Volkswagen Touareg
• Subaru Forester
• Toyota Camry