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Old 11-16-2013, 04:31 PM   #87
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Originally Posted by ZionsWrath View Post
The stock tires are not grip monsters but they are fine if you understand that. Because the tire "comes on a prius" everyone likes to bash them.
Exactly.

The Michelin Primacy HP tire is ALSO an OEM tire on various models from Audi, BMW, and Mercedes. (See Michelin site, and Tire Rack.) Just because it's a low rolling resistance tire that is ALSO used on a Prius, does not mean it is in any way dangerous.

Wasn't there an article, a review, online in the past year about an intro drive for the press on the Isle of Man in which they declared the stock tires to be EXCELLENT in the wet?

I looked, but now I cannot find it.
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