Volkswagen Golf-sportwagen Tires

The long-running Volkswagen Golf is also available with a stretched wheelbase and wagon body, offering extra room and versatility along with the Golf’s performance and precise handling. The longroof Golf gives you the extra room and practicality of an SUV or crossover with the refinement and style of the Golf hatchback. That includes a state-of-the-art infotainment system, smartphone connectivity, and a full driver assistance suite that includes blind spot monitoring, navigation, interactive cruise control, lane departure alerts, VW’s CarNet Security & Service, and much more. The Golf Sportwagen shares its DNA with the Golf 5-door but with a lot more cargo room and the Jetta’s 147 horsepower turbo 1.4L 4-cylinder engine. The Sportwagen S 4Motion model is available with a 1.8L 4-cylinder for 168 hp and your choice of 6-speed manual or 6-speed Tiptronic automatic transmission. The Golf Sportwagen is rated at 29 mpg city/37 mpg highway/32 mpg combined.

Here at SimpleTire, our team has gone through and rounded up some of the best tire options for your Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen, including all-season, all-weather, and winter tires, then ranked them in Best/Great/Good order. We then used our SimpleScore system to assign numerical values to each one for handling, longevity, and traction. Ready? Let’s go ahead and get started here:

1. Pirelli P4 Persist AS Plus: Best All-Season tire

Let’s kick off this list with the Pirelli P4 Persist AS Plus. For decades, drivers have loved Pirelli tires for their great balance of engineering, quality, and value. It’s a tall order, but the P4 Persist AS Plus does a great job of living up to the Pirelli heritage of performance and innovation. It’s a tire you can rely on to deliver versatile year-round traction along with the long wear, refined ride, responsive handling, and low noise that are more along the lines of a Grand Touring tire. The Pirelli P4 Persist AS Plus has a low rolling resistance design that saves on fuel costs over the life of the tire. Highway stability, handling, and tread wear all get a boost from the reinforced shoulders, designed for the rigidity and reduced tread deformation that a performance-oriented tire needs to stand up to the hard lateral forces of cornering. The P4 Persist AS Plus features circumferential grooves that channel water away from the tire’s contact patch to avoid hydroplaning and enhance wet-weather performance, and its angled lateral grooves work to engage mechanical grip on wet or dry pavement. The solid center rib in the middle of the P4 Persist AS Plus’s tread is designed for on-center stability, sharp steering response, and on-center stability on the highway. Tread life is another strength of the P4 Persist AS Plus – backs this tire with an 85,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty. That all comes out to SimpleScores of 9.7 for traction, 9.9 for longevity, 9.5 for handling, and an overall composite SimpleScore of 9.7.

2. Goodyear Assurance WeatherReady: Best All-Weather tire

Next up is the Goodyear Assurance WeatherReady, a premium Grand Touring tire that’s designed to the performance specs of an all-weather tire. All-weather tires are designed for the best of both worlds between all-season tires and winter tires, with improved traction in winter conditions. The Goodyear Assurance WeatherReady’s rubber formulation is a great start, with an environmentally sustainable, silica-rich, soy-based compound that’s designed for dependable traction and long, even wear. Beneath the tread, you’ll find two wide steel belts bolstering a single-ply polyester casing, with a polyamide layer designed for high-speed stability, comfort, and ready steering response. You can depend on the Assurance WeatherReady for year-round traction with a system that includes outboard ribs for traction on wet or snowy roads, Goodyear’s 3D TredLock Technology Blades, and specially designed sipes in the tread’s center. Even as the tire wears down and tread depth becomes shallower, Evolving Traction Grooves are designed to keep providing traction. Sweeping Tread Grooves and the tire’s circumferential grooves work as a system, evacuating water from the tire’s contact patch and resisting the tendency to hydroplane. Snow and slush traction gets a boost from Zigzag Biting Edges along the tire’s inboard ribs, earning the Goodyear Assurance WeatherReady the tire industry’s Three Peak Mountain Snowflake certification for severe winter service. Goodyear backs the Assurance WeatherReady with a 60,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty.

3. Nokian Nordman 9: Best Winter tire

You’d expect any Finland-based tire manufacturer to have some experience in developing tires to get through the demands of Scandinavian winters, and you’d be correct. If you live in a part of the country where you have to handle rough winter driving, think about the Nokian Nordman 9 – Nokian is a Finnish company and they know all about winter tire design and demanding winter conditions. And yes, Nokian and Nokia (the phone company) are part of the same group. The Nordman 9 SUV is designed to help you navigate the roughest kind of snow and slush that winter weather can throw your way. It’s designed with a tread compound that stays flexible so it can deliver the grip you need in sub-freezing conditions. At the surface of the Nordman 9’s winter tread pattern, traction is multiplied by a network of deep grooves and strategically placed sipes to add hundreds of biting edges that dig in and chew their way through snow and slush. The Nordman 9 is pre-drilled for easy installation of studs, with holes that are strategically placed to give you the traction you need to get across a hockey-rink-slick road with confidence. NOTE: studded tires are not legal in all states and are restricted to certain months of the year in states where they are legal – check your state laws to be sure.

While these are the best Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen tires on the market, there are plenty of other options to consider:

4. Toyo Extensa A/S II: Great All-Season tire

Next up is the Toyo Extensa A/S II, an all-season tire for sedans, coupes, minivans, and SUVs that we’ve been quite impressed with. The Extensa A/S II is designed around an advanced silica-rich tread compound that offers low rolling resistance for improved fuel efficiency, along with long wear and improved grip in wet conditions. Toyo designed the Extensa A/S II with tread ribs that are optimized and distribute lateral forces and pressure across the tire’s tread face for more even wear and surefooted cornering and braking performance. Four wide circumferential grooves evacuate water behind the tire’s contact patch to resist hydroplaning on wet roads, and a dense network of sipes makes it easier to get through wet or wintry conditions by adding hundreds of extra biting edges, multiplying the traction you need. The Extensa A/S II is designed with a non-directional symmetric tread design that makes it easier for a tire shop to cross-rotate tires and ensure more even wear. Toyo backs the Extensa A/S II with a 75,000 mile warranty.

With an average SimpleScore of 8.5, the Extensa A/S II offers great handling and traction (8.7 in both categories) and good longevity (7.8).

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