Here at SimpleTire, we’ve gone through and put together some of the best tire choices for an E150 Econoline Club Wagon, including all-season, all-terrain (for 4WD equipped Econolines), and winter tires, ranked in Best/Great/Good order. We then calculated SimpleScore for traction, longevity, and handling for each one, using our system that looks at data points and reviews for each tire and then assigns a numerical score. Ready? Let’s begin:
1. Toyo Open Country A/T III: Best All-Terrain tire
While most Econolines are 2WD and 4WD drivetrains (shared with the F-series), this is not that uncommon for these vans. The Toyo Open Country A/T III is an excellent choice for a 4x4 vehicle; it’s the kind of tire you can count on for the grip and durability that will safely get the job done or can take you on fun adventures on sand, snow, mud, or rocks. That kind of performance doesn’t necessarily come with a hard compromise on the ride comfort, sharp handling, civilized road manners, and low noise that you’d expect with premium all-season tires. Those might sound like lofty expectations, but the Toyo Open Country A/T III is a capable, versatile tire that can check all those boxes. Internally, the Open Country A/T III is designed with a polyester casing, two steel belts, a spiral-wrap polyamide cap layer, and a durable cut-and-chip-resistant tread compound. Toyo covers the Open Country A/T III with a 65,000 mile warranty, which we totaled up as a solid SimpleScore of 9.6 for longevity. The tire’s symmetric all-terrain tread easily ejects stones, mud, and debris as the wheel turns so there’s always a clear section of the tire for traction, thanks to its high void ratio. The Open Country A/T III also features an extra-deep tread for long wear as well as traction. As you might expect with such an aggressive tread, the Toyo Open Country A/T III has the Three Peak Mountain Snowflake certification for severe winter service for a traction score of 9.7. Cornering, braking, and steering response are direct and precise without being touchy thanks to the shoulder design, sipe pattern, and stable internal construction of the Open Country A/T III for a SimpleScore of 9.3. All told, the Toyo Open Country A/T III is a tough and capable tire for your Ford E150 Econoline Club Wagon, with long treadwear, durable design, and great year-round performance.
2. Bridgestone Blizzak DM-V2: Best Winter tire
Now we come to our choice for a winter tire, and the Bridgestone Blizzak DM-V2 is a perfect choice for winter performance for your Econoline E150 Club Wagon. The Blizzak DM-V2 has the technology and the design features to get you through some of the nastiest winter conditions without exhausting you and your passengers with a noisy, rough ride. The Blizzak DM-V2 is designed with an advanced winter tread formulation that’s packed with features like Bridgestone’s multi-cell rubber compounds and a hydrophilic coating that ensures the tire stays flexible at subfreezing temperatures. The increased block edges in its tread pattern put more rubber in contact with the road and its tread compound is infused with “bite particles” that let the Blizzak DM-V2 dig into snowy, slushy, or icy surfaces, earning a SimpleScore of 9.7 for traction. That enhanced contact patch is designed not only for enhanced traction but also for steering feedback and response, bringing home a SimpleScore of 8.9 for handling. Durability is also impressive; it just makes sense that tires lose traction as they wear down, but Bridgestone designed the Blizzak DM-V2 with NanoPro Tech Multicell Compound for the first 55% of the tire’s tread depth. The remaining 45% is a standard winter compound that still offers excellent grip on snow and slush and allowed us to award the tire a 9.3 score in longevity. Not surprisingly, the Bridgestone Blizzak DM-V2 is Three Peak Mountain Snowflake rated for severe winter service.
While these are the best Ford E150 Econoline Club Wagon tires on the market, there are plenty of other tires to consider:
3. Falken Wildpeak H/T02: Great Highway tire
Highway-terrain tires are designed to perform much the same as all-season tires, with more of an emphasis on the ride quality and low noise you’d expect from a Grand Touring automotive tire. Our pick for a highway-terrain tire for the Econoline Club Wagon is the Falken Wildpeak H/T02, a tire that’s designed around the high-torque specifications of today’s trucks and SUVs. We gave the Wildpeak H/T02 a very strong composite SimpleScore of 9.9 thanks to its rugged upper sidewall, enhanced load rating, and silica-rich tread formulation. Falken stands by the Wildpeak H/T02 with a 50,000 or 70,000 mile warranty. When you need a year-round grip, the Wildpeak H/T02 is designed with wide circumferential grooves, angled grooves, and 3D Canyon Sipes, for a SimpleScore of 8.7 for traction. The cornering dynamics, braking performance, steering response, and road manners of the Wildpeak H/T02 are all pretty impressive as well, with its support bridges that connect tread blocks together for stability and resistance to deformation and tread squirm during cornering for a handling score of 8.8.
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