{"id":7701,"date":"2026-09-28T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetirelab.com\/mag\/autoview-tyre-test-2026-225-45-r18-continental-maxcontact-mc7\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:08:10","slug":"autoview-tyre-test-2026-225-45-r18-continental-maxcontact-mc7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/autoview-tyre-test-2026-225-45-r18-continental-maxcontact-mc7\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoView tyre test 2026: 225\/45 R18 \u2014 Continental MaxContact MC7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AutoView compared 7 tyres in size 225\/45 R18.<\/p>\n<p>BMW 120; BMW 220 for road assessments \u00b7 225\/45 R18<\/p>\n<h2>Results \u2014 summer tyres<\/h2>\n<p>Positions follow the original publisher classification. The percentages are separately weighted by Tyre Reviews and may differ from the publisher scores.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Continental MaxContact MC7<\/strong> \u2014 98.1% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Continental MaxContact MC7 is in position 1 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 98.1%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: dry (100.0%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: wet (96.7%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelin Pilot Sport 5<\/strong> \u2014 98.9% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin Pilot Sport 5 is in position 2 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 98.9%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: wet (100.0%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: dry (97.6%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bridgestone Potenza Adrenalin RE005<\/strong> \u2014 92.9% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Bridgestone Potenza Adrenalin RE005 is in position 3 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 92.9%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: comfort (97.5%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: wet (91.2%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kumho Ecsta Sport (PS72)<\/strong> \u2014 93.3% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Kumho Ecsta Sport (PS72) is in position 4 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 93.3%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: comfort (96.5%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: dry (93.1%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nexen N Fera Sport SU2<\/strong> \u2014 92.3% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Nexen N Fera Sport SU2 is in position 5 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 92.3%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: comfort (96.3%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: dry (91.8%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hankook Ventus Evo<\/strong> \u2014 93.1% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Hankook Ventus Evo is in position 6 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 93.1%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: wet (94.8%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: dry (90.6%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yokohama ADVAN APEX V601<\/strong> \u2014 88.0% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Yokohama ADVAN APEX V601 is in position 7 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 88.0%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: comfort (94.4%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: dry (87.6%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The original test contains the raw measurements and full methodology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoview.co.kr\/ko-kr\/articles\/101467\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Original test<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AutoView compared 7 tyres in size 225\/45 R18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}