IT’S THE TURN OF THE 19-INCH ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE (UHP) TYRE this year, in the best-selling 235/35 R19 size, a size that’s the most popular partly because it’s used by many of today’s high performance hatchbacks.
Most of the premium tyre brands are represented in our test, including Goodyear with its all-new Eagle F1 SuperSport, the notable exception being Bridgestone, which has a new Potenza set for launch in 2021. Of the other absentees, Yokohama couldn’t meet our request in time due to Covid-19 related staff layoffs, Hankook, Toyo and Falken all have revised tyres on the way, and Maxxis, which we included unofficially in last year’s test of 18-inch UHP tyres, unfortunately did not have any stock for this test.
As always in the evo test, the results are…