Best tires brand for 2017 prius

I'd be asking the question locally. Manufacturers of tyres have factories all round the world - and there have been occasions where quality has differed vastly.

A case in point - Dunlop, many decades ago. At the time, Japanese cars imported to Australia had very poor Dunlop tyres, but Australia made some very good performing ones on locally assembled Japanese cars.

 

What do you define as “good”? Economy mileage? Tread? Braking? Performance in rain? Snow? There are a lot of trade offs when you go performance based economy. I have Michelin cross climates which handles all seasons from bad snow to summer rain, but are bit below average in fuel economy.

If you are talking in general, Michelin’s have always been pretty good, have great performance, but not so great fuel economy. They are expensive though, probably the most expensive tires in US for the normal street car.

 

Bridgestone has some pretty good tires, but the choices are limited for the Prius. They have a great line of very efficient fuel economical tires, but they don’t have a good selection of all season stuff good for the snow. They do have a very good winter tire blizzaks if you are willing to swap seasonal. Living in Colorado, I need some all season tires good with snow which is why I got Michelin cross climates.

 

Do you get cold weather - like snow and ice?

 

I can echo that the michelin crossclimate+ tires are awesome although a small dip in mpg. I hear that different manufacturers have different geographical/ climate markets in mind. For example nokian focuses on colder climates. Goodyear however focuses on a global market, I have heard great things of the vector 4 seasons gen 3 but it's not available everywhere, it also has good rolling resistance. Vector 4Seasons Gen-3

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