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Old 09-10-2013, 12:55 PM   #27
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Continental Extremewinter Contacts are a much better tire than any Bridgestone winter tire. Nokian makes great winter tires as do Pirelli and Michelin. Bridgestone has great marketing but their winter tires are terrible.
For pure ice and snow traction, I have not tried anything that comes close to the Blizzak WS series. I've used the Michelin X-ice (mediocre), as well as the Continentals (a bit better than Michelin, but not nearly as good as the Blizzaks), but I keep coming back to Bridgestone for snow tires. I haven't been terribly impressed by any of their other tires, but if all you care about is the absolute best traction on snow and ice, the WS-70s are the way to go (I haven't tried the Blizzak LM-60 "performance" winter tires though, so I can't comment on them). I would like to try the Nokians sometime though - I've heard great things about them.

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