Toyo R888

Great tyre for road and track - have been suprised by their wear and have kept their grip through a number of track days and road driving.

Dry grip is outstanding and as long as you can get some heat in the tyres in the wet they are great - but don't like standing water due to the tread pattern.

For what they are designed for Toyo has nailed it - great tyres and would buy again.

Bought the car with these fitted already and was very pleased with the dry road grip, rear end has never even twitched under heavy acceleration. I was slightly concerned about how they would be in the rain but i found them to be good under normal driving conditions, as long as you stick to driving sensibly you shouldnt have any problems, had them now for 5k over 14 months and would buy again if the price wasn't a concern.
Couldn't use the car in the few days of snow we had in england as they had no grip at all, but i was fully expecting that with them on a 280bhp rwd car.

Cheap race tyre. Excellent wet grip - beware of aquaplaning!
Extremely noisy.

Sick tyres

Well what can I say these tyres are truly astonishing! Bought two for the rear used off of eBay and loved them, so when the time came I got them all round. (did cost over ?1k, but hey!) They're fantastic on the road, heat up pretty quick and they have transformed the car into a cross between a big cruiser and a hot hatch! It really is unbelievable what these tyres can and will do.
You must warm them progressively to get the best life span out of them, skidding or spinning the wheels when they're cold really takes a lot of tread off! I have done 5,000 hard miles on these beauties including a Cadwell park track day and I still have about 3mm of tread left.
As others have said in the rain these are still very usable even on a big car like the M5. Very progressive and controllable if you know what you're doing.
I will definitely buy these again, no question.

Excellent value for money. In that sense maybe the best TD tire around.

A bit sensitive to pressure per external temperature; one must be very careful on adjusting the pressure in order for them to work properly, but if done correctly they stick like gum and wear not that easy. Still, tire wear is more than other semis, but this is due to the soft compound (all the compounds of 888 are softer than stated) and this makes it easier to heat and also drive daily on normal road.

Definitely my one and only choice on Track Day rubber.

Perhaps not the best performing track tyre, but the best value for any intermediate track day enthusiast.

Used for 6 months as daily driver on a turbocharged Mk3 MR2 Roadster. Used on all types of roads, in weather ranging from hot summer to cold winter & everything in between.

Dry grip levels are truly incredible. The R888 is an R compound tyre and dry grip far exceeds any conventional 'high performance' street tyre. Performance is far higher than any other tyre I've used.

Wet grip is surprisingly good. Internet horror stories regarding using the R888 in the rain (usually by people who haven't actually run them) are overrated. In my experience as long as the user understands the relationship between rain & grip levels for ANY tyre, wet grip is actually very reasonable. Similarly, as with any tyre, if you are reasonably cautious with standing water, drivability is perfectly adequate especially for a such a highly specialised, high performance piece of equipment.

Some road noise, but perfectly acceptable for an enthusiast driver.

Wear rate is very reasonable for a track tyre, similar in duration to the Toyo T1-R.

Overall, an excellent tyre, with many strengths & very reasonable weaknesses. Understand it's nature & related characteristics, & the R888 is thoroughly recommended.

I bought these after meeting the european CEO for TOYO and not believing what he told me about the tyre. I swapped the racing michelin n22?s from the rally nova and fitted these on the car.

Instant grip is available but not as power sapping as the michelin n22?s( the nova does not have a lot of torque to overcome the michelin n22?s friction) they will not let you down as long as the car is not very heavy and last for ages.

I have since then installed them in the road car, octavia vrs, and in the recce nova so the police dont fine me for doing rally recon with slicks. I feel its a revolutionary tyre.