THE JUDGES SAID KUMHO HAS LEARNED ITS LESSONS IN EUROPE AND IS NOW UNASHAMEDLY CHALLENGING THE THRONE OF THE SEEMINGLY INVINCIBLE ESTABLISHED EURO BRANDS. The judges said Kumho has learned its lessons in Europe and is now unashamedly challenging the throne of the seemingly invincible established Euro brands. “Very capable cars like the Golf GTi also need very capable tyres, because without perfectly tailored, wellselected rubber, even a cornering artist like the GTI would only deliver mediocre driving dynamics,” said tester Joachim Fischer. “In the somewhat surprising wet-braking best, while the Kumho, is coming to a stop, some of the more highly fancied European tyres, including the one we named as the benchmark before we commenced was still rolling along at 19.1 km/h,” said Fischer. “From a physical perspective, that’s quite a lot but there were other tyres in the test that performed even less impressively, with the last paced brand still travelling at 30km/h when the Kumho was securely stopped,” he said. “The Kumho is almost impossible to shake off – either in the rearview mirror or in terms of driving dynamics while the Kumhos rubber compound clearly works excellently on wet asphalt,” Fischer added. “The brand-new Kumho, can be considered the winner in terms of value for money, earning its overall rating of “Very Good,” Fischer concluded.
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