Comparison: Hankook Ventus Prime 4 vs. Hankook Ventus Prime3 K125 (2026)
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Prime 4 is the balanced everyday upgrade; Prime3 K125 is the drier, sharper specialist fading from availability.
Within Hankook's summer passenger range, the Ventus Prime family occupies the sweet spot between everyday usability and genuine performance credentials. The Hankook Ventus Prime 4 is the current generation — a broad, well-rounded premium tyre that replaced the Hankook Ventus Prime3 K125 and significantly expanded what the line can do. The Prime3 K125 remains available in a narrower size range and still appears in some OE fitments, but the two tyres have quite different personalities: the Prime3 K125 leans hard into dry precision, while the Prime 4 trades some of that sharpness for a more complete, better-value everyday package.
Ventus Prime 4
Ventus Prime3 K125
These tyres were not tested together. The comparison below is inferred from separate tests by normalizing both tyres against 24 shared benchmark tyres, so treat it as an estimate.
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