If you’ve got a Camaro, you’re going to be looking for the kind of tires that can enable you to really get the most out of your car’s performance potential, including braking traction, steering response, cornering ability, and acceleration (without wheelspin). At the same time, you’re going to have ride quality, noise levels, road manners, and tread life toward the top of your priorities. We took some time to put together a nice list of all-season, summer/ultra-high-performance and winter tires that would all be a great fit for your Camaro.
1. Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 4 - Best all-season UHP tire
Michelin brings their motorsports experience and heritage to bear with the Pilot Sport All Season 4, a performance-oriented all-season tire that’s designed for year-round traction as well as the kind of handling, braking, and responsiveness you’d expect for a car like a Camaro. The Pilot Sport All Season 4 features an asymmetric all-season tread pattern with extra rubber toward the shoulder for enhanced cornering ability, and an advanced race-inspired tread formulation that’s rich with silica to grab hold of slick pavement. That’s enough for SimpleTire to give it a SimpleScore rating of 9.8. The Helio+ tread compound is truly all-season, designed to stay flexible even in subfreezing weather, with 360 degree sipes and extra biting edges to grab loose snow and slush and enhance braking, handling and acceleration in winter weather. The Pilot Sport All Season 4 from Michelin is the first all-season tire chosen by Chevrolet for the Corvette, and is backed by a 40,000 mile manufacturer’s treadwear warranty (which is reflected in our SimpleScore rating of 8.6 for longevity).
2. Bridgestone Potenza Sport - Best UHP tire
Next up we come to the Bridgestone Potenza Sport. The Potenza Sport is designed as an ultra-high-performance (UHP) tire for an exhilarating driving experience on wet or dry pavement. The Potenza Sport is designed with a sticky silica-rich tread formulation that delivers great adhesion to the pavement and a specially engineered tread pattern that’s designed for maximum contact with the pavement, with four wide circumferential grooves that evacuate water from the contact patch to avoid hydroplaning. 3D sipes boost tread stiffness for great cornering response and wet-weather traction, and a tuned tread pattern cancels frequencies to help keep road noise to a minimum.
3. Pirelli Winter Sottozero 3 - Best winter tire
For Camaro drivers who live in areas that see tough winters – the kind where an all-season tire is just not going to get the job done – there’s the Pirelli Winter Sottozero 3. Sottozero is Italian for “below zero,” and this tire comes with Pirelli’s heritage of quality, engineering and performance. The Sottozero 3’s innovative tread compound features special polymers that keep the rubber flexible and pliable for dependable traction in subfreezing weather. The directional winter tread pattern is designed with arrow-shaped blocks and rounded shoulders that are rich with grooves that expel water and slush from the contact patch, and 3D sipes that boost grip in snow by adding thousands of extra biting edges to dig in and deliver traction, yielding a SimpleScore rating of 9.8. Internally, the Winter Sottozero 3 from Pirelli is designed with two steel belts and a spiral-wrapped polyamide layer for high-speed stability and durability. The Pirelli Winter Sottozero 3 is Three Peak Mountain Snowflake rated for severe winter service.
4. Kumho Ecsta PA51 - Great all-season UHP tire
Going down the line, we come to the Kumho Ecsta PA51. The Ecsta PA51 is designed to deliver UHP levels of braking, cornering and handling performance with all-season traction, thanks to wide circumferential grooves that divert water from the tire’s contact patch to resist hydroplaning in standing water. Wide shoulder blocks enhance cornering ability (for a SimpleScore of 9.4 in handling), and a semi-solid center rib boosts straight-line stability, steering response, and road manners. Its advanced tread compound delivers superb traction, stiffness for cornering ability and long, even wear (for a 45,000 mile manufacturer’s tread life warranty), and a combination of sipes and specially-designed tread blocks deliver winter traction. The Kumho Ecsta PA51 comes in at a little more affordable price point, but that doesn’t mean any kind of a compromise in performance or quality.
5. Hankook Ventus S1 AS (H125) - Good all-season UHP tire
The Hankook Ventus S1 AS (H125), like the Kumho Ecsta PA51, is designed as a year-round all-season tire with the same kind of performance and handling properties as a summer/UHP tire. The Ventus S1 AS (H125) features a silica-rich tread formulation that’s designed for year-round grip and long wear (earning a longevity score of 8) and dry-road handling and cornering are enhanced with a wider outboard shoulder block for extra tread block stiffness and resistance to cornering G forces (for a handling score of 9.3). The Hankook Ventus S1 AS (H125) features extra-wide grooves and a dense sipe pattern for traction in wet or wintry conditions, and a shoulder chamber that’s designed for rigidity when you’re pushing it hard around corners, maintaining a stable contact patch the whole time. Hankook backs the Ventus S1 AS (H125) with a 50,000 mile manufacturer’s tread life warranty.
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