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Originally Posted by HypermilerAX
I confirm that the Ecocontact 5 is one the best currently (maybe along with some others also in cat. B). They will be my next tires in 165/70 R14.
If you can wait a bit, A-rated tires should be released in 2013 :
-Toyo Nanoenergy
-Bridgestone Ecopia EP001S
-Pirelli Cinturato P7 Blue
-Hankook Kinergy Eco
Search for some European online website. You'll be able to browse among the tires and sort by price/RR.
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Just a reminder of these new european tyre marks A,B,C... labels.
It is at the moment purely on tyre manufacturers job to put those marks on their tires. So there are no penaties etc if tires don`t meet the labels they have. This same flaw goes with other european fuel consumption figures. They can be off up to 40%. Reason in the fuel consumption data errors lies in cars Cd values which also got from manufacturers...
So still in the future I will only trust results from tyre tests if you want to get lowest rolling resistance tires or best overall handling tires.
Still at the moment best LRR tires are according to winter tire tests Nokian Hakkapeliitta R. Miclelin XI2 is close second. You also have to consider that they usually test just some tire size and results may varie between sizes.