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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
Getting back to your research Dean, I was led to believe by what I read that the Revo 1 isn't much superior to the WS-50 on ice, but it should kick its ass in dry conditions. For a car, I'd be considering between the Revo, WS-50, and M3, with M3 probably being the first choice. However, I think only the WS50 is available in the 14" Miata size, so I'll be making it a second set of those probably.
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From what I see, the Revo is slightly worse in dry braking, and much worse at wet braking. It scores ever so slightly better on ice, but not significantly vs. the other two. Some of TRs subjective numbers are better, but the hard data doesn't back it up.
2005 TireRack winter tire tests (See more graphs link under the useless summary graph.
I have no data on the M3s, only the M2s, so they were all I commented on. I do think if the M3s were major contenders, they might have included them in either the CR, or TR test, but I don't know why they were not included.
Again, this was about pure ice/snow performance. I really don't think that was the design criteria of the M3, as it is more of a compromise/really good 1.5-3 season tire. If I had to guess, if it had been tested, it might have been similar to the Dunlop DS-2, but again, I have no data to prove, or disprove that.
While TR has the Revo winning by a smidge in ice acceleration, and cornering, CR has the X-Ice winning over the WS-50 in ice braking by a significant enough margin for the WS-50 to only get a very good compared to the X-Ice Excelent. My contention remains that these 3 tires are the best of bread, and that they are mostly indistinguishable, especially since different widths have different tread patterns, and therfore different performance characteristics.
20000 TireRack testing