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    7.7

    Good

    Score breakdown:

    7.0

    Long lasting

    Good

    8.3

    Handling

    Great

    7.9

    Traction

    Good

  • Established in 2006, Vitour Tire’s objective is to design, manufacture, and distribute a full line of high-quality tires, with a particular emphasis on the work-tire area of the business. This is accomplished by ongoing investment in technical expertise and technology, allowing them to provide the finest tire for every particular application. Vitour seeks to produce a broad portfolio of high-quality tires for passenger cars, SUVs, CUVs, trailers, and commercial vehicles through ongoing investment in R&D and technological know-how.

    The Vitour Galaxy R1 is an all-season tire that is designed for use on passenger vehicles. The Galaxy R1 ensures high stability, improved handling, and a comfortable and quiet ride. The Vitour Galaxy R1 combines the stunning classic whitewall appearance with all the features of a current premium tire.

    However, can this tire provide the required traction and performance for your passenger vehicle? To learn more about it, let's look at a review of the Vitour Galaxy R1.

    Features and Benefits

    If you do not want to change your tires every season then all-season tires are designed for you. An all-season tire, the Galaxy R1 offers dry, wet, and light winter weather traction and can be used throughout the year. Let’s see its features and benefits.

    • All-season traction: The Vitour Galaxy R1 features an all-season tread compound that offers solid traction in dry, wet, and light winter weather conditions.
    • Reduced risk of hydroplaning: Four wide circumferential grooves remove water from the tread to reduce the risk of hydroplaning and boost wet traction.
    • High-speed stability: The Galaxy R1 has a solid center rib that enhances high-speed stability and precise handling.
    • Quiet and comfortable ride: Galaxy R1’s optimized tread design offers a quiet and comfortable ride.

    Pros and Cons

    Now that you have seen the features and benefits of the Vitour Galaxy R1 you may wonder whether it has any drawbacks that come with it, check out the pros and cons.

    PROS:

    • All-season tread pattern provides dry, wet, and light winter weather traction
    • Solid center rib offers high-speed stability and precise handling
    • Four wide circumferential grooves remove water from the tread to reduce the risk of hydroplaning Quiet drive

    CONS:

    • No mileage warranty
    • Not Three Peak Mountain Snowflake certified and cannot withstand harsh winter weather conditions
    • Longevity could be better

    SimpleTire’s view on Vitour Galaxy R1 tires

    Overall, the Vitour Galaxy R1 is a solid all-season tire that offers great handling and traction throughout the year at affordable prices.

    Let’s use SimpleScore to get SimpleTire’s view on Vitour Galaxy R1 by comparing it with two other all-season tires of the same size 215/70R14: Mastercraft Avenger G/T and Vercelli Classic 787. In comparison to the Mastercraft Avenger G/T, the Vitour Galaxy R1 has superior handling (8.3 vs 7.7) and better traction (8 vs 7.9). However, the Avenger G/T has a slight edge over the Galaxy R1 when it comes to longevity (8 vs 7).

    When compared to the Vercelli Classic 787, the Vitour Galaxy R1 has a superior score (7.7 vs 7.6) thanks to the superior handling (8.3 vs 7.8) and traction (8 vs 7.9). When it comes to longevity, the Classic 787 has a marginally better score than the Vitour Galaxy (7.2 vs 7).

    If you are looking for a less-priced all-season tire that can offer solid performance, you should consider the Vitour Galaxy R1 for your passenger vehicles.

    Vehicles the Vitour Galaxy R1 is a good replacement tire for

    When the original tire wears out, the Vitour Galaxy R1 is a good replacement tire for passenger vehicles like:

    5 reviews

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    4.2

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    Review breakdown

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    • 1 out of 100
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    Scorecard

    Dry

    4.4

    Wet

    4.2

    Winter

    3

    Comfort

    4.6

    Noise

    4.4

    Treadwear

    4

    5 SimpleTire reviews

    Tristan
    5
    Pontiac Firebird 1988 Trans Am
    Verified Customer
    May 19, 2021

    Great value and well made!

    Paul
    5
    Verified Customer
    May 21, 2019

    Great tire for our 1974 VW Super Beetle Cabriolet. If you are trying to find and excellent white wall tire that was in vogue during those years...this is the tire for you! Vitour Galaxy R1 Size: P165/80R15 Part Number: PGAWR165C15TH0

    Ed
    4
    Verified Customer
    Nov 22, 2018

    I love these tires. Installed a set on a 1960 Cadillac Fleetwood. The thread design is modern, high performance summer, and the whitewall is wide enough. They ride very smooth and road noise is zero. Way better and cheaper than Cokers. Best choice for older cars needing whitewalls.

    Dana
    4.5
    Verified Customer
    Feb 4, 2018

    Great buying experience. Tires for my old beetle have become very hard to find and cost over $100 each when special ordered. I was getting desperate with no spare and 4 balding damaged and plugged tires when I found simpletire. They had four tires that would fit and my only problem was deciding which to buy.Because beetles run with tires at low pressure to increase the footprint for better handling; they require a strong stiff sidewall to avoid cracking. I would like to have had some advice on this but when I called they were unable to advise me since they deal with so many brands and suppliers. After some research on line I finally chose the Galaxy R1 from Vitour due to their versatile profile and great price at just over $50 each and FREE SHIPPING! They arrived in 2 days at my postal service where I picked them up and went to a local tire service to have them mounted and balanced. The charge was a whopping $10 each! I am now riding on safe new rubber and have my best old tire as a spare all for less than the price of 2new tires special ordered from the place that used to stock them ( big O). So far so good and I see no signs of stress on the sidewalls or tread separation that have been problems when forced to buy used tires in the past.

    Bill
    3.5
    Verified Customer
    Dec 21, 2015

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