Marangoni Mythos

I run a RWD Street Car - a 462BHP V8 with Marangonis, and am quite happy with the Mythos tyres' ability to hold the road, especially in lateral situations like cornering and hard turning at speed.

There is no tyre known to humanity that can hold this baby on the ground if you want to make the rear wheels spin, but the Marangonis do a great job trying.

This tyre is quite a popular alternative to its Pirelli equivalent here in Australia for Street Commodores.

I've given the tyre a high Wet Rating because I always slow down a bit in the wet, and the braking ability of the Marangonis is without complaint as such. (462hp and wet city roads don't go very well together)

Put a passenger front tyre on to see how it would go. Now putting another one on the front drivers side. At 2/3rds of the price of the pirelli or continentals, they are great. Life in Scotland is rarely dry so these give lots of confidence in the wet and wild conditions up here. Wear and tear is good after 4000 miles in 6 weeks! Also the car is noticeable quieter on longer motorway runs. I was originally sceptical, but am now a convert based on price and performance.

Great value replacement for Pirelli P Zero Rossos. Car feels very good on them, firm and condidence building on the road. I tend to be picky with tyres, and did a lot of reading up before I put them on, so happy with my choice and will be using these again.

Also they look good, and have good rim protection. Fronts have not done 12000 miles, and looking at the wear so far I'm expecting at least 18000 before they're worn out - and that's on a 300bhp car.

Ride is good, noise is low, grip is good. If I'm being really picky I think the Pirellis are a bit softer and higher grip in the dry, but these were near half the price. Highly recommended.

Rubbish tyres from Kwik Fit. Never again. Changed them sharpish back to my beloved Hankooks.

I had never heard of these tyres, the garage fitted them when I bought my car as the ones on it were worn. I changed the fronts after about 24,000 miles as they were down to about 2+mm. The rears are still at about 3mm and they have now done 45,000 miles. Awesome lasting ability and that's after the Kwik Fit guy said they were rubbish tyre that don't last when he was changing the front 2, he had to swallow his words when I told him they had already done 24k. The rears need changing as one has gone out of shape and is starting to wobble. Slighlty noisy but excellent wear. I mainly do motorway driving, I don't hammer them but neither have I got Miss Daisy in the back so they take a bit of stick.

Decent tyre wear at 5mm having been on the front for 8000miles shall now be rotating them to back and they should easily last another 10000. no real issues with these tyres at all.

I fitted a set of Marangoni Mythos to my Audi Avant after the OE Continentals wore out. I don't drive like a maniac but 14,000 miles from the front Continental was a bit short of what I expected. I was recommended Marangoni by a friend who is into his performance cars, and he swore to me that Marangoni were as good as anything he had tried before. I took his advice and have to say that I have been really impressed so far. I've now driven 18,000 miles on them and although the fronts are getting a bit worn, I'm sure they will run for 20,000 miles (a full 6000 more than the Continentals!)
The grip levels of these tyres in the dry are phenomenal and it takes some seriously stupid driving to get them to break point. In the wet, they are MUCH better than the OE Continentals! Even my wife could tell the difference on wet roundabouts.
Anyway, at risk of sounding like an advert for Marangoni, I'll stop at that. But for me, as a high miles driver, in a powerful and heavy car, I have 100% confidence in these tyres. Oh, one other thing.... the tyres are Italian made, not produced in Asia / China etc. To me, this means they are specifically designed for European roads.... again, that must be a plus point.

As much as I liked the Marangoni it's just NOT an option to keep replacing blown tyres, and when I say blown I'm saying the entire inside wall has gone completely on 2 of my 4 blow outs. You read it right 4 blow outs in 18 months is just not on.

The offsets of the car are fine, so it can cope with the larger wheel and tyre combo.

I drive well and carefully with occasional hits of the pedal when safe, but mostly as per the law dictates. I was running 275/30/19's on the rear and 245/35/19's on the front. The blow outs ALL occurred at highway speeds with 2 on a twisty mountainous roads. I feel it was ONLY because the car was a Merc that on every occasion we there was barely noticeable change to steering and I pulled up without mishap.

Other than the blow outs the Marangoni's performed beautifully, a bit noisy perhaps but great in dry and especially wet. Bottom line is would I buy them again and the answer is no.

I'm now changing to Toyo T1 R so I'm hoping for a better run

As much as I liked the Marangoni it's just NOT an option to keep replacing blown tyres, and when I say blown I'm saying the entire inside wall has gone completely on 2 of my 4 blow outs. You read it right 4 blow outs in 18 months is just not on.

The offsets of the car are fine, so it can cope with the larger wheel and tyre combo.

I drive well and carefully with occasional hits of the pedal when safe, but mostly as per the law dictates. I was running 275/30/19's on the rear and 245/35/19's on the front. The blow outs ALL occurred at highway speeds with 2 on a twisty mountainous roads. I feel it was ONLY because the car was a Merc that on every occasion we there was barely noticeable change to steering and I pulled up without mishap.

Other than the blow outs the Marangoni's performed beautifully, a bit noisy perhaps but great in dry and especially wet. Bottom line is would I buy them again and the answer is no.

I'm now changing to Toyo T1 R so I'm hoping for a better run

I have these tyres on the front wheels of my bmw 323i and have been impressed by them so far. Grip is fantastic on a dry road but I feel is not as good as some others on wet and ice. I have done over 8000 miles with these tyres and they have still got 4mm tread left on them which is pretty good considering the weight of the car, the bendy country roads I drive on and the speed I tend to drive at. There is little road noise from these tyres and they make cruising on the motorway very smooth and comfortable. I will be ordering a full set of these tyres when my current ones wear out.