MICHELIN Pilot Sport 4 S

Great product.

Excellent tyres. Hardly ever consider anything else these days.

Excellent sporty all-rounders - PS4S DT1

Fantastic tyres - the best Michelin tyres i've tried to date. I've done a long round-trip from the UK to Europe and back on these tyres, including driving hard at the Ring and trackday at Spa Francorchamps. The tyres performed excellently in all conditions before and after the trackdays, and were fantastic on track, maintaining strong grip on a hot track lap after lap. Grip only dulled slightly when tyres eventually overheated, and once cooled tyres were straight back to excellent again.

Not very good

I used them for around 20k miles and had to replace them, had only 2.5 mm of thread left. After about 3000 miles, in rainy conditions, we almost had no traction, skidding dangerously on water (NB: rear wheel traction).

Really can't fault these tyres. They might have been out for ages now but they still rate very highly in media reviews. They are OE on my very rare Vauxhall Insignia B GSi & were used to develop its handling on the Nurburgring & other proving grounds. Fantastic grip in the wet or dry, predictable losx of traction when pushed, plus excellent longevity. The car only has 300bhp & 4WD as & when needed but, it spends most of its time as FWD unless the car feels the need for rear traction. E.g. pulling tighter out of a corner under power etc. On other "cheaper" UHP tyres I would have the fronts down to the legal limit in anything from 5k-7k miles. Now it's around 10k.

Exceptional grip and feel on both wet and dry surfaces. I have been a Conti Contact Sport fan through at least 4 sets of hard driving but these are a step up again - albeit at higher cost. (Cars: 280 bhp Audi A6 diesel Le Mans edition and now 320+ Audi S3)