Bridgestone

Bridgestone, makers of the famous Potenza range,these are made by the famous Bridgestone Corporation, in Leamington having made them since 1930. These tyres are used by the legendary Vauxhall sportster - the VX220, and had to be designed specifically for this vehicle. These are sold as sports, or high performance tyres, they are approved for many cars, e.g. Maserati, BMW, Ferrari, Porsche, and the Mercedes A class. These tyres boast a high grip tread compound, which is moulded into an asymmetric tread pattern. This compound will not last as long as a harder rubber, although they will grip a lot better. As for this tread pattern, well, these are ...  Read the complete review

Bridgestone's Turanza ER300 tyres are billed as a premium "touring" tyre. I take touring to mean that the tyres should have enough grip to cope with a powerful car yet have enough features to appeal to the high mileage driver - low noise, low wear rate - rather than the out and out performance driver. Judged by these criteria, they've done a damn good job and these are excellent touring tyres!!! I've had these in size 185/60R14H on my car (Honda Civic VTEC Coupe) for the past 28,000 miles. Needless to say, the wear rate is excellent as I'm a pretty hard driver and my daily commute for the past year has been on twisty back roads. I'd expect a a more ...  Read the complete review

Car: MG ZT 1.8 Turbo Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza RE040 225/45R18 91W 18” It hardly seems to have been just about a year ago that I was telling you about why I was changing the tyres on my car to a new brand. For those of you new to my love/hate affair with the MG let me just recap. I bought the MG around four years ago and it came wearing Michelin Pilot Sports tyres. I really didn’t think very much about the performance of the tyres. If you have read my review of my relationship with the MG you will know that the tyres were not the first thing that concerned me. There were far more serious things that occupied my ...  Read the complete review

One of the great things about getting a new car is the fact that they generally come with tyres that you wouldn't ever dream of paying for out of your own pocket. Such was the case with my Honda Civic Type-R. It arrived with a brand-new set of Bridgestone Potenza RE040s with a suggested retail price of somewhere around £150 per tyre! At 205/45/R17, they're pretty big lumps of rubber. They've done their job well enough and, after just 15 months of driving they've made it down to the wear indicators. In that time I've driven them on just about every surface you could imagine (with the unfortunate exception of a race track!) and the comments ...  Read the complete review

These are by far the best tyre I've used. The performance in the wet is better than my previous tyres in the dry. They also hold onto their performance even when worn down close to the legal limit unlike a lot of tyres which seem to degrade quite early. If you shop around they aren't any more exspensive than other performance tyres. They also look good too. The downsides are trying to find someone who sells them, and they do wear down quite quickly if driven hard. ...  Read the complete review