{"id":7776,"date":"2026-09-28T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetirelab.com\/mag\/tyre-reviews-tyre-test-2026-225-40-r18-michelin-pilot-sport-4-s\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:08:10","slug":"tyre-reviews-tyre-test-2026-225-40-r18-michelin-pilot-sport-4-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/tyre-reviews-tyre-test-2026-225-40-r18-michelin-pilot-sport-4-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyre Reviews tyre test 2026: 225\/40 R18 \u2014 Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyre Reviews compared 7 tyres in size 225\/40 R18.<\/p>\n<p>VW Golf GTI Mk7.5 \u00b7 225\/40 R18<\/p>\n<p>The original comparison includes several tyre categories. The categories have separate result pages.<\/p>\n<p>This is a range comparison. The author did not name an overall winner; the displayed order uses the Tyre Reviews weighted grid.<\/p>\n<h2>Results \u2014 summer tyres<\/h2>\n<p>Positions and percentages follow the Tyre Reviews result grid, which applies its own weighting to the original measurements.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S<\/strong> \u2014 96.5% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S is in position 1 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 96.5%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: wet (99.0%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: value (80.6%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelin Pilot Sport 5<\/strong> \u2014 96.0% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin Pilot Sport 5 is in position 2 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 96.0%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: wet (99.2%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: value (83.3%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelin Primacy 5<\/strong> \u2014 94.7% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin Primacy 5 is in position 3 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 94.7%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: value (100.0%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: snow (59.9%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelin Pilot Sport CUP 2<\/strong> \u2014 91.4% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin Pilot Sport CUP 2 is in position 4 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 91.4%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: dry (99.3%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: value (76.7%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelin Pilot Sport CUP 2 R<\/strong> \u2014 87.4% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin Pilot Sport CUP 2 R is in position 5 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 87.4%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: dry (99.0%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: value (74.6%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Results \u2014 all-season tyres<\/h2>\n<p>Positions and percentages follow the Tyre Reviews result grid, which applies its own weighting to the original measurements.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Michelin CrossClimate 3 Sport<\/strong> \u2014 92.4% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin CrossClimate 3 Sport is in position 1 of 2 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 92.4%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: snow (94.9%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: dry (90.8%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelin CrossClimate 3<\/strong> \u2014 89.0% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin CrossClimate 3 is in position 2 of 2 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 89.0%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: snow (100.0%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: value (88.3%).<\/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.tyrereviews.com\/Tyre-Tests\/2026-Michelin-Range-Test---Summer.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Original test<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>ES \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) \u00b7 https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:2018_Volkswagen_Golf_GTI_MK7.5_in_Haifa.jpg<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyre Reviews compared 7 tyres in size 225\/40 R18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7776","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\/7776","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=7776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}