Comparison: Hankook Kinergy 4S2 H750 vs. Pirelli Cinturato All Season (2026)

Wet performance is where the gap becomes most stark. The Hankook's aquaplaning resistance is one of its headline achievements — with best-in-class longitudinal aquaplaning scores recorded across multiple independent tests — and its wet braking and wet circle cornering scores rank among the strongest in the all-season category. Testers have highlighted extremely short wet stopping distances and excellent wet handling composure as defining strengths. The Pirelli Cinturato All Season, by contrast, shows a wet performance profile that reflects its age. Its aquaplaning score of 51 is well below what modern all-season buyers should accept, and its wet braking score is substantially behind the Hankook. Pirelli positioned the Cinturato All Season as a tyre with optimised water evacuation through directional tread channels, but the numbers show it simply cannot match a modern tyre in this critical safety area.

On dry roads, the Hankook holds a clear and consistent advantage. It earns strong praise from testers for its sharp turn-in behaviour and high objective handling confidence — characteristics that translate to real-world driving reassurance on fast A-roads and motorways. Its dry braking score is meaningfully stronger than the Pirelli's, and testers have repeatedly described it as a genuine dry-road performer rather than simply a capable all-season compromise. The Cinturato All Season's dry scores are notably lower across both braking and handling, reflecting its age and the progress that tyre development has made since its introduction. In the one mutual Autobild test where these two shared a grid, the Hankook finished fifth overall while the Pirelli came ninth in a ten-tyre field — a result that tells much of the dry-road story on its own.

Both tyres carry all-season credentials but the Hankook is demonstrably more capable in winter conditions. Its snow score of 81.6 reflects what testers have repeatedly confirmed — convincing snow braking, short stopping distances on packed snow, and handling composure that goes beyond the bare minimum of all-season winter capability. It is consistently described as leaning toward winter performance as a genuine strength rather than a tolerated compromise. The Pirelli Cinturato All Season scores 78.3 on snow — not a disaster, and Pirelli's own positioning emphasises winter attention as a development priority — but in head-to-head conditions, the Hankook's more modern compound and construction give it a meaningful edge for drivers who regularly face sub-zero temperatures or meaningful snowfall.

Comfort and running costs reveal another dimension of the Hankook's advantages. Its noise score of 92.2 is genuinely class-leading, and this is not just a test metric — tester feedback consistently highlights low cabin noise as one of its best real-world attributes. The Pirelli scores 73 on noise, a gap large enough to be felt on longer journeys. Rolling resistance follows the same pattern: the Hankook's 79.7 score points to real-world fuel savings, while the Pirelli's 57 places it among the less efficient options in the all-season space. Mileage is acknowledged as the Hankook's one genuine weak point — it is not a long-life tyre — but at 59.2 it still comfortably outscores the Pirelli's 42, meaning the older Italian tyre offers neither the comfort nor the economy advantages that might otherwise offset its safety shortcomings.