Hankook Ventus V12 evo k110

I love these tyres. I live in Madrid, Spain. Summer temperatures are over 100F (road can get easily 140F) and winter temperatures are below 32 F. On top I love hiking on the mountains (plenty of them here in Spain) so I also drive a lot on mountain roads. It is not easy to find a tyre that performs well in all these extreme conditions but the Hankook Ventus V12 does it with one exception, snow. The tyre behaves excellent in dry (hot and cold) and wet roads in my 160 HP Mazda6. Wear is very good in my car at least. After 25000 miles they are ready for replacement but they have performed very well till the end. The only weak point comes with snow. You can manage to drive on one or two inches of snow in flat roads (still some advance driving skills are needed)but if the road goes up or down you will be in trouble. So highly recommendable tyre unless you plan or need to drive your car on snowy conditions.

Had these recommended by my local dealer but had concerns as relatively unknown and I was off to the Nurburgring. These exceeded my best expectations amazing grip and feel in the dry. Did manage to get them to slide once when changing direction mid corner at 70 mph but totally predictable. A little opposite lock and back to full grip again, then blast away for more fun. Unable to comment on wet use or wear yet but will when appropriate.
Don't be put off by the fact that these are not a premium brand. A graet tyre so far.

I have used many different brands of tyres over the years and discovered I was paying high prices for branded and well advertised makes of tyre. They were false economy when compared to my Hankooks. These are a fantastic tyre. Great grip in wet or dry, excellent under acceleration and braking and they look good too! My car is very nippy and I like to drive hard so I need to know I've got some good rubber between me and the road. I've been buying this tyre for several years now and unless something better becomes available, I will keep buying them. I can pick up 4, fitted and balanced, for just over £200.00

Expensive but well worth the extra cash. I do seem to go through a front pair every 15k but thats more likely to be my driving style.

Tyre Size: 245 45 ZR 19

Changed from original spec. Yokohama Advan Sports to these after considerable research. Tyres are the most important part of any car - you place your life in their hands and on that small contact point between rubber and tarmac, so get it right.

First impressions: After scrub in, excellent. I have driven in Pirelli's (yuk!) and Goodyear Eagle F1 GDS 2' on my Audi S3 and would categorically state that these tyres are as good as, if not better than the GDS 2's. Sure footed, excellent traction, good turn in, minimal side wall movement and excellent water displacement and general wet weather performance make this tyre a very strong contender and I would certainly recommend that you look at these.

By the way, if you are looking for summer tyres that grip and last for tend of thou's of miles, forget it - performance and long-life is like trying to mix oil and water - the recipe just does not work!

tyre wear very quick less than 1 year (15,000miles driving steady)

These tires seem to be a good match for my car given the bigger cost and similar performance of the standard ContiSports that came as standard fit with the car.
I had 3 sets of the Ventus S1’s:
1st of two on the front replacing worn Conti’s
2nd set of two on the front, moving the half worn fronts , after doing about 9k on these, to the back
3rd set of 4 after both the front and rears are on about 2mm, done 40k on the rears! and about 20k on the fronts
This is my experience:

Positives:
Excellent grip in the dry
Low rolling resistance
Good feedback
Managed to drive in the Jan snow with about 3-4 mm on thread left!
Good acceleration and braking

Negatives:
When getting down to 2-3mm I started experiencing some tram lining
Slightly skittish in the wet when down to 2-3mm but still safe
Noise level increase when worn down from 3mm onwards

Given I have s-line suspension and the tyre is side-wall reinforced I can’t comment on comfort. In general a very good tire for the price, given the extra price on premium brands and similar or worse wear and performance than the Hankook’s, then these are a sensible buy.

Prices are rising as these are becoming standard fit on a lot of new cars. Will by these again but are starting to look at Vredensteins if prices are continuing to go upwards.

Reading the reviews of this tyre it is most obvious that it performs better on some cars than others. I have been a Michelin man(not that I'm fat)for many years, for the wet grip and resistance to wear these Premium tyres have. I bought 4 HanKook Ventus V12's as I promised after 8 years I would very soon be selling my beloved car. This hasn't happened, but after a couple of hundred miles, I have to say(on my car) these tyres are brilliant. Dry and wet grip is superb, no tyre spinning, fantastic self assured cornering. I would definitely buy these tyres again, I got much more than I was expecting.

These tyres came with my new Fiesta. Excellent during the summer months - great grip and feedback. Very low rolling resistance and pretty comfortable, low rolling noise. However, any rain or damp conditions and they were skittish at best. Made the car twitchy and installed no confidence to whoever was driving the car. Changed the fronts the following year as I was that nervous about these in the wet. Never ever had any Hankooks that could cope with the wet.