The BEST All Season Tires For 2025/26 - Tested and Reviewed

Product/tires reviewed

A YouTube test compares all-season tires across dry, wet, and snow, including checks for comfort, noise, and rolling resistance. Testing uses a rear-wheel-drive Mazda/MX-5 (Miata) to see whether drivetrain affects results.

The host also compares against:

• One summer tire (Premium Contact 7 is mentioned)
• One winter tire: Continental WinterContact TS870

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Main takeaways (key features + performance themes)

• All-season tires are tradeoffs: they typically can’t be top-tier everywhere. Better snow performance usually costs some dry/wet performance (and vice versa).
• The best “overall” all-season models are usually strong across most categories, rather than dominating just one.
• Budget tires vary a lot—some are extremely weak in snow/handling despite being labeled all-season.
• Wet grip and stability are emphasized repeatedly, especially on the MX-5.

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Best overall all-season winner

Pirelli (PLI) Cinturato Allseason SF3

Overall winner in the host’s ranking.

Highlights

• Dry: best dry performance—shortest dry braking and quickest handling lap, with strong grip.
• Wet: essentially tied for best wet braking and very close in wet handling.
• Aquaplaning: best straight-line and curved aquaplaning resistance.
• Snow: best snow handling, one of the lowest noise levels, and good comfort.
• Notable weakness: rolling resistance was not best (finished 5th overall), roughly ~10% behind Continental and ~8% behind it in snow traction.

Verdict from the video

“Honestly, not much this tire can’t do.”

Strong recommendation; top pick.

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Top contenders (next best)

Continental AllSeasonContact 2 (second overall)

Strengths

• Very consistent across categories
• Wins: snow traction, rolling resistance, comfort
• Strong overall grip in dry/wet/snow

Notes

• Not the aquaplaning leader (described as weaker than the best).

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Bridgestone Turanza / Trends All Season 6 (third overall)

Strengths

• Tied for best dry subjective feel; described as “most summerlike”
• Best wet braking
• Good aquaplaning resistance
• Even better than usual in snow

Weakness

• Rolling resistance is pretty high (not its strong point).

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Goodyear Vector 4Season Gen 3 (fourth overall)

Highlights

• Great wet grip and solid snow
• Solid comfort

Notes

• Not best in dry braking
• Rolling resistance hurt overall placement (host cites roughly ~8% to ~16.3% behind, depending on context).

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Snow-focused notes (all-season in winter conditions)

The host claims there’s a meaningful spread between best and worst all-season tires in snow (not just “they all feel the same”).

Strong snow performers (early in the snow section)

• Clever Quadrax 3: excellent traction/braking; very safe; low rolling resistance; later confirmed as a “snow powerhouse”
• Pirelli / SF3: described as fast with the “best grip circle”
• Goodyear / Bridgestone / Continental: a “trio” of good-to-very-good snow tires
• Linglong: borderline/good but notably better than the bottom two

Bottom two in snow handling

• Tomette / Tomcat: struggled entering corners; host says it effectively loses ability to turn under snow loads, with lots of drivability failures
• Cooper / Cooper Kooper: rear snaps out; difficult to get into corners; compared to a previous poor performer (“Set eight” referenced alongside Tomcat)

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Dry/Wet handling and comfort highlights

Wet handling (grouped by feel)

• Tomcat / Linglong / Continental / Bridgestone: described as “great for an allseason tire” steering feel
  • Bridgestone and Continental are better around the lap
• Goodyear and Millie: feel great in lane changes but imprecise
• Kooper: nonlinear steering ramp and vague lap behavior; oversteer balance issues
• Clever: nice steering at modest inputs but runs out of dry grip quickly when pushed

Comfort + noise

• Clever and Cooper lead on noise/comfort.
• Continental is also comfortable.
• Pirelli / Prelly are noted as very quiet.
• Some budget tires lacked refinement, affecting everyday drivability even if noise looked acceptable.

Rolling resistance (fuel efficiency proxy)

• Continental: lowest rolling resistance (best efficiency)
• Clever: next best
• Prelly / Pirelli: about ~10% worse than Continental (roughly ~2% more fuel use when new, decreasing as tires wear).

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Comparison against summer and winter tires (reference tires)

Summer tire reference (Premium Contact 7 mentioned)

• In snow: described as almost twice as slow as the best all-season tires (host calls it poor and “not fun”).
• In wet: described as very fast, sporty, predictable, and pleasurable.

Winter tire reference: Continental WinterContact TS870

• Fastest in snow reference, but best all-season tires are close.
• Winter disadvantage likely shows more in braking, due to winter sipes vs all-season compounds (host explains the sipes tradeoff).

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Overall ranking results (as stated)

1. Pirelli PLI / Cinturato Allseason SF3
2. Continental AllSeasonContact 2
3. Bridgestone All Season 6
4. Goodyear Vector 4Season Gen 3
5. Clever Quadrax 3
6. Linglong Sportmaster 4S (new name referenced: Grip Master 4S) 7–8 / last area:

• Cooper and Tomcat/Tomette are cited as the two worst in snow
• Host later states:
  • Tomcat/Tom All Year 3 finished last
  • Cooper Discover Allseason placed next-to-last (Exact full ordering beyond the top and the bottom performers wasn’t provided cleanly in the subtitles.)

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Unique numerical comparisons mentioned

• Summer vs all-season (in snow): summer is almost twice as slow.
• Dry lap advantage: summer is described as ~1.4–1.5 seconds faster on a short dry lap (no exact absolute ranking number provided).
• Goodyear vs best all-season (overall): ~1.4% to 4% difference described as significant.
• Prelly rolling resistance: about ~10% worse than Continental.
• SF3 rolling resistance: about ~10% behind Continental overall; ~8% off in snow traction.
• Tomcat / Tom All Year 3 penalties (as described):
  • over ~10% down in dry braking
  • nearly ~20% down in wet braking
  • “not that great in snow” (still better than the summer tire)

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Pros / Cons (by major options)

Pirelli (PLI) Cinturato Allseason SF3

Pros

• Best overall grip across dry/wet/snow
• Best aquaplaning resistance
• Excellent snow handling
• Low noise and good comfort

Cons

• Rolling resistance is not #1 (5th overall)

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Continental AllSeasonContact 2

Pros

• Extremely consistent
• Wins snow traction, comfort, rolling resistance

Cons

• Not the aquaplaning leader

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Bridgestone All Season 6

Pros

• Very “summerlike” dry feel
• Best wet braking
• Strong aquaplaning and very good snow

Cons

• Higher rolling resistance

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Goodyear Vector 4Season Gen 3

Pros

• Great wet grip and stability
• Solid snow and good comfort

Cons

• Not best in dry braking
• Rolling resistance hurt overall position

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Clever Quadrax 3

Pros

• Excellent snow “powerhouse”
• Excellent comfort and very low rolling resistance

Cons

• Host wants more dry/wet grip (snow-heavy bias)

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Linglong Sportmaster 4S

Pros

• Big improvement; decent dry-biased performance and good value

Cons

• Not best in snow
• Some handling peaking described

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Tomcat/Tomette and Cooper

Pros

• Some comfort/driveability notes (e.g., Tomcat described as “easy to drive” in wet despite reduced grip; Cooper very comfortable)

Cons

• Very poor snow cornering/traction behaviors and weak overall performance for the bottom tires

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Other important context / limitations

• Snow testing occurred nearly 9 months before release, so some newer models (e.g., Michelin CrossClimate 3 / 3 Sport and Nokian) were not tested directly.
• The host used prediction/approximation for missing tires using other published data (imperfect due to differences in size/vehicle/location).

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Predictions for the missing “CrossClimate” tires (approximate only)

• Michelin CrossClimate 3 Sport
  • Estimated to land around ~4th overall in some placements
  • Using an overall “placement calculation,” could come ~1st overall, just ahead of the Pirelli/SF3 (approximate; depends on weighting)
• Nokian SeasonProof 2
  • Predicted to slot into ~3rd overall

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Concise verdict / recommendation

• Best all-season overall (per this test): Pirelli Cinturato / PLI Allseason SF3 — strongest across dry/wet/snow and aquaplaning; only downside is not the top rolling resistance.
• If you want efficiency/comfort consistency: Continental AllSeasonContact 2
• If you want the most “summerlike” dry feel plus best wet braking: Bridgestone All Season 6
• If your priority is snow-heavy performance: Clever Quadrax 3
• The host strongly discourages the worst-performing budget options, notably Tomcat/Tomette and Cooper Discover Allseason, especially for snow driving.

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Speaker views (if multiple speakers)

Only one main host provides the test narrative and judgments. No other distinct speakers are clearly present in the subtitles beyond the host’s voice.