Re: Tire time

[Jason Palmer <jaspal1@yahoo.com>]

Michael Veglia said:
> In it's day, the RE-71 was one of the best
> performance street tires money could buy

Then Michael Sheridan Williams said:
> Wasn't the RE-71 designed for the 959 and
> was the first street tire to be tested
> at over 1.0g?

I had the same discussion with the 'tire guy' about the
RE71s. "Good tire in its day, tire technology overtook
it."
This was when I was replacing 225/45/17 RE71s with
225/45/17 Toyo T1+ Proxys.

Today, the RE71 is a cheap performance tire which does
grip, but not very quiet on a car like the A4. 

I used RE71-Rs (still on the racecar)... a superb tire
for autoxing, but compare that tire to a Gforce or even
old BGF R1s, the old Bridgestone is very outclassed.

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