Tires Toyo proxes R1R’s or Bridgestone RE71r
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Tires Toyo proxes R1R’s or Bridgestone RE71r
as title states, in 215 17 45 fronts and 245 17 40 rear....both very similar price and seem to wear pretty much the same. I drive car about 5k miles a year.
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Burning Brakes
I follow the latest tire tests and reviews pretty closely, and from what I've read, it isn't even close - the RE71R consistently comes out on top of pretty much every tire comparison test I've read in the past few years. The Toyo R1R is a very old design which scored no better than mid-pack in a test Car and Driver did several years ago. Both at the pointy end of summer performance rubber, so neither will give long tread life, and I think both are noisy as hell, but as long as you're aware of that, it isn't even a contest - the Bridgestone wins hands down.
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I follow the latest tire tests and reviews pretty closely, and from what I've read, it isn't even close - the RE71R consistently comes out on top of pretty much every tire comparison test I've read in the past few years. The Toyo R1R is a very old design which scored no better than mid-pack in a test Car and Driver did several years ago. Both at the pointy end of summer performance rubber, so neither will give long tread life, and I think both are noisy as hell, but as long as you're aware of that, it isn't even a contest - the Bridgestone wins hands down.
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The 71R is the best Auto-x/summer tire out there for street use, so long as you are ok with a stiff sidewall. I would also take the Direzza z2 star spec, the Rival/Rival S and the R-S4 over the proxes. Those 3 are also in an entirely different class over the R1R.
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Three Wheelin'
Oddly, the only car I've driven on Proxes R1Rs was a customer's borrowed Lotus Elise during an autocross event about 5 years ago . . . . I was impressed by the car, not as much as by the tires, which were OK but didn't have as much grip as I was expecting. But, that was also the only time I've ever driven an Elise, so this was probably not the most objective tire test out there (easy FTD at the local PCA autocross though, using that car was like cheating!).