Comparison: Hankook Ventus Prime3 K125 vs. Hankook Ventus Prime 4 (2026)
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Prime 4 builds on the Prime3's legacy with better wet grip, longer life, and far more sizes.
Hankook has offered both the Hankook Ventus Prime3 K125 and the Hankook Ventus Prime 4 in its premium summer lineup, though the relationship between them is straightforward: the Prime 4 is the direct successor to the Prime3, inheriting its role as Hankook's best-selling everyday performance tyre in Europe while improving on it in almost every measurable area. Understanding what changed — and what the Prime3 still does well — is the key to choosing between them.
Ventus Prime3 K125
Ventus Prime 4
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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