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Find everything you need to know to make sure you get the right tyres for your car in WhichCar's tyre section. We'll provide the latest tyre reviews, tips and advice to help you decide which tyres are best for your needs, from performance and safety to cost and comfort, along with the latest developments in tyre technology.

Tyre Comparisons

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Gear

The best 4x4 tyres in Australia in 2024

A good set of off-road rubber can make or break your next epic adventure
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Features

MOTOR's 2021 Tyre Test

After a forced break, the annual tyre torture test is back to find out which performance rubber deserves your cash
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Features

We find the best new tyre in our comprehensive tyre test

Forget carbon-ceramics and 10-pot calipers – what you really need is a good set of boots. See how our contenders shape up
4X4 Mud Terrain Tyre Test 2020
Wheels & Tyres

4X4 Mud Terrain Tyre Test 2020

It can be argued that nothing beats a set of mud-terrain tyres for driving in, well, mud. But to get to the slippery stuff you’ll need to drive over plenty of blacktop. Let’s see how muddies fare on the road, in the wet and the dry.
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Tyre Test

MOTOR Tyre Test 2019: Finding Australia's best performance tyre

Eight of the hottest new performance tyres race the clock (or tape measure) in five gruelling disciplines. We find out how they rank
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Wheels & Tyres

4x4 Tyre Test 2019: Introduction

Seven tyres pounded on - and off -road to find suitable all-terrain rubber for your 4x4.
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Features

2018 Wheels Tyre Test: Introduction

Upping your car’s cornering G-force by 10 percent is the stuff of a sports suspension upgrade, right? And cutting a car-length from your braking distance is the work of a set of Brembos? Nope, you just need a great set of tyres
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Advice

WhichCar 2018 Tyre Test: The Basics

Everything you need to know about our torture test for tyres
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Features

Wheels Tyre Test 2017: Eight brands compared

It isn’t easy sorting good passenger-car tyres from the genuinely great ones, but the annual Wheels Tyre Test has it down to a fine, round and black art. We put eight tyres through the gauntlet to give you our pick of the bunch

Reviews and Tests

Tyre News

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News

Goodyear-owned Beaurepaires closing stores after sale hopes fall through

Tyre industry shakeup sees Beaurepaires business deal fall through, with 700 jobs and 100 stores on the chopping block.
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News

Formula E replica racer shows off Hankook’s EV-specific iON tyre

Tyre maker Hankook shows off EV-specific rubber at Melbourne EV show
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News

Continental introduces UltraContact NXT, its most sustainable tyre to date

With a heavy use of recycled materials, the UltraContact NXT is a low-impact tyre designed for EVs and hybrids
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News

Continental SportContact 7 tyres on sale in Australia

The venerable SportContact 6 now has a successor in Australia, with the new SportContact 7 now available.

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Sponsored

Cooper Tires unleashes all-new Rugged Trek 4WD tyre

Cooper’s best ever 4WD tyres will go anywhere
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News

Hankook's iON EV tyres pick up four Red Dot Design awards

Tyres for EVs are big business, and Hankook's investment in the category has been rewarded with a big industry award
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News

Hankook iON: EV-focused tyre range launches in Australia

Leading tyre maker to release new tyre that focuses specifically on the needs for the world’s electric vehicles.
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News

Falken Ziex ZE310R Ecorun replaces ZE914

Falken launches its latest premium summer tyre, the Ziex ZE310R Ecorun
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News

Innovative Australian-made road barrier passes 100km/h crash test

Tyres at the end of their run could find new life in new concrete barriers for Australian highways

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News

Hyundai and Michelin sign agreement to develop tyres

Memorandum of understanding means the pair will collaborate on R&D for tyre technologies over the next three years

Off-road Tyres

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Wheels & Tyres

New MAXXIS tyres and ROH Wheels for our Isuzu MU-X build

MAXXIS RAZR AT811 tyres on ROH wheels sets off our MU-X build
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Gear

Tech: Ten most significant advances in 4x4s

4x4s have come a long way from the 40 Series LandCruisers and early Land Rovers that ignited Australia's love of 4x4s some 60 years ago
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Wheels & Tyres

Tested: Mickey Thompson Baja Boss mud-terrains

Kian's GQ Patrol gets a fresh set of Mickey Thompson Baja Boss mud-terrains!
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Gear

Our D-MAX gets a set of Maxxis RAZR muddies

Initial impressions of a set of Maxxis MT-772 RAZR tyres after 5000km
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Wheels & Tyres

Tyre Test: Yokohama X-AT G016

How are these new X-AT tyres from Yokohama holding up?
A guide to 4x4 tyres
Wheels & Tyres

Talking Treads: A guide to 4x4 tyres

There is an off-road tyre for just about every application these days. Do you know what's best for you?
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Wheels & Tyres

New 4x4 gear: KMC KM545 wheels + Maxxis Razr AT811 + Bendix brake kit

New all-terrains from Maxxis, new wheels from KMC, and a Bendix 4x4 brake kit
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Gear

New 4x4 gear: KMC wheels + Kumho tyres + Protex brakes

Give Dad the present he wants this Father's Day.
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Wheels & Tyres

VIDEO: Ranger gets a set of Goodyear Wrangler MT/Rs

We’ve thrown a set of Goodyear Wrangler MT/Rs on the Ranger.
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Gear

The top 10 new products at the 2019 SEMA Show

Get your motor running and head off on the highway, and the tracks, with what we judge as the best new products for Australia from the 2019 SEMA Show.

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