{"id":7901,"date":"2026-09-28T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetirelab.com\/mag\/top-tire-review-tyre-test-2026-225-45-r18-michelin-pilot-sport-5\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:08:10","slug":"top-tire-review-tyre-test-2026-225-45-r18-michelin-pilot-sport-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/top-tire-review-tyre-test-2026-225-45-r18-michelin-pilot-sport-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tire Review tyre test 2026: 225\/45 R18 \u2014 Michelin Pilot Sport 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Tire Review compared 7 tyres in size 225\/45 R18.<\/p>\n<p>BMW 3 Series \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>Michelin Pilot Sport 5<\/strong> \u2014 98.0% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin Pilot Sport 5 is in position 1 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 98.0%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: comfort (100.0%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: value (91.8%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Giti GitiSport S2+<\/strong> \u2014 97.1% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Giti GitiSport S2+ is in position 2 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 97.1%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: wet (97.9%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: value (92.9%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sailun Atrezzo ZSR2<\/strong> \u2014 96.0% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Sailun Atrezzo ZSR2 is in position 3 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 96.0%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: value (100.0%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: dry (95.3%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Continental MaxContact MC7<\/strong> \u2014 95.4% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Continental MaxContact MC7 is in position 4 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 95.4%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: dry (99.4%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: value (91.8%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Toyo Proxes Sport 2<\/strong> \u2014 94.3% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Toyo Proxes Sport 2 is in position 5 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 94.3%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: comfort (98.6%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: value (89.7%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bridgestone Potenza Sport<\/strong> \u2014 95.4% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Bridgestone Potenza Sport is in position 6 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 95.4%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: dry (97.3%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: value (82.1%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yokohama Advan Sport V107<\/strong> \u2014 94.6% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Yokohama Advan Sport V107 is in position 7 of 7 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 94.6%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: dry (98.3%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: value (78.0%).<\/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:\/\/toptirereview.com\/2026-uhp-tire-test-big-brands-vs-challengers\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Original test<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Tire Review compared 7 tyres in size 225\/45 R18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7901","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\/7901","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=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}