Comparison: Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S vs. Michelin Pilot Sport 4 SUV (2026)
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Same Michelin sport DNA, built for entirely different vehicles — match the tyre to your car.
Michelin builds two distinct sport summer tyres that share a family name but serve genuinely different purposes. The Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S is the brand's flagship ultra-high-performance road tyre — its Super Sport category product aimed squarely at drivers of performance cars and sports saloons who want the most communicative, capable tyre Michelin makes for road and occasional track use. The Michelin Pilot Sport 4 SUV is something quite different: engineered specifically for the higher ride height, greater mass, and different loading demands of SUVs and crossovers. Both carry the Pilot Sport name and both earn strong test results in their respective categories — but they are designed for different vehicles, different priorities, and ultimately different drivers.
Pilot Sport 4 S
Pilot Sport 4 SUV
These tyres were not tested together. The comparison below is inferred from separate tests by normalizing both tyres against 12 shared benchmark tyres, so treat it as an estimate.
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