Bridgestone Potenza RE050

Easy to loose traction on quick pull away. Heavy wear showing across entire tread

Very good grip in dry conditions, also quite good in wet driving conditions, recently i have expericed with a little bit of snow & ice these tyres makes the car near impossible to drive, after all there not winter tyres! All in all 8half out of 10, had car for two years tyres still holding out strong.

First set of tyres for my 2.0 R sport, hoping to get more life out of them especially with my lack of power...but lasted a year mainly due to my cornering speed and I guess lack of support (small rims) as the edges wore off - even with extra pressure. But all in all I was happy, good grip in dry however abs would kick in surprisingly early in wet. Rich (Wales)

On the Subaru Impreza WRX these tyres are a decent bet.

Good balanced performance in the dry with high levels of feedback and when traction is coming to an end the feeling is nice and progressive. You get scuffing, then understeer with the impreza. Its nice and controlable.

Not as grippy in the wet as something like a Continental Sport Contact 2/3 or the Goodyear Eagle F1. Not as much wet weather progressiveness but thats because they are a harder wearing compound. But the RE050 offers pretty good performance, good aquaplaning resistance and safe braking.

Comfort seems fine. The fact I am not noticing anything major to mention must be a good sign. Again noise seems fine. Certainly no louder than the Eagle F1.

The area these tyres outshine the likes of the Sport Contacts and the Eagle F1s is the fact they actually last a reasonable length of time and therefore offer good value for money.

A balanced tyre in every sense

Came fitted from the factory on my new Golf. Three days of ownershiop and i almost got stranded in 2 inches of snow. Absolutely hopeless even with full tread depth. Further snow fall meant the car stayed on the drive, in favour of our Fiat Panda third car which coped without issue in 6" of snow even though that doesn't have winter or all season tyres.
Wet weather grip was OK when new, but once 50% worn the car had a tendency to feel nervous on white lines even at constatnt speed. Wet cornering mediocre, little confidence and feedback from the tyre - i'd have expected better from Bridgestone. Dry performance was good, with no great weaknesses, but nothing special either.
Noise levels were acceptable (Dunlops are much worse apparently on the latest Golf). Comfort levels were fine - reasonable touring tyre with a bit of sportiness but i wouldn't fit it to any hot hatch or sports car. This isn't a long life tyre - the front tyres are at the wear limiters after 14000 miles; not good for a 105bhp car which is driven 60% of its time on dual carriageways. The rear tyres will probably last to 22-24k miles, not bad but nothing special. I'll fit the same again to the front axle, but once the rears are worn out i'll be looking elsewhere for the next set.
This winter i'm also fitting winter wheels - the use of summer performance tyres in cold, rural climates just doesn't work, even in the UK.

not that good in the wet , good in the dry but not worth the money better tyres available for less

They appear to make the steering quite heavy. It can make shoulders ache after 150 miles.

Wear is poor. Very hard and feel all the bumps. After 11,000 miles fronts are 6.0 and 5.5 and rears 6.0 and 5.5

Very odd that rears have worn so badly. On previous A4 I got 3x the wear from the rears on Michelin Primacy 205/55/ZR16/91W

Must find a better alternative.

The car was supplied with the RE050's, and they seemed to provide decent grip and weren't too noisy.

However, the wear on the front set wasn't great. 12.5K miles of mixed (sometimes spirited) driving and the fronts were on the wear marker and needed changing. (I replaced them with Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric, which have lasted ~14K miles but will need changing soon).
The rear tyres have lasted to 27K miles, but have become quite noisy due to uneven wear (not necessarily the fault of the tyre), so will be replaced soon as well.

I had these tyres all round on my 350z and the wear on the rear tyres was horrific, only covering 3000 miles before they needed replacing (other tyres have lasted me 8000-14000 miles).

The grip in the dry was excellent, but in the wet could prove to be a bit dodgy sometimes with a tendency to aquaplane. The feedback from the tyres was very good but they were not very progressive, providing a lot of grip in the dry but suddenly letting go when you reach the limit.