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Michelin Cross Terrain looks discontinued: no new owner reviews or road tests in five years and no current EU tyre label.

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Continental Premium Contact 5 vs Michelin Cross Terrain — Compared

Relative Score (0–100): the weighted average of the categories below, each 60% road tests and 40% owner reviews. Based on 4 + 0 road tests and 119 + 3 owner reviews. How we score

Cross Terrain leads, 72–70 Narrow edge

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Continental Premium Contact 5
Tire AContinental

Premium Contact 5

Summer

Tests 73 · 4 tests Owners 64 · 119 reviews

Best test result: #1 of 11 in 2019 AMS Summer SUV Tyre Test (straight aquaplaning)

Michelin Cross Terrain
Tire BMichelin

Cross Terrain

All Season All Terrain and Off Road tires

Provisional

Tests – · none yet Owners 74 · 3 reviews

Category by category

Relative Score per category, 0–100. Open “Why this score” for the tests and owner ratings behind it.

  1. 71

    Dry

    Premium Contact 5 +1
    70
    Why this score
    SourcePremium Contact 5Cross Terrain
    Professional tests (TWG score) · 4 / – tests71≈ 69 (est.)
    Reviews found online7071

    Premium Contact 5: 60% × 71 + 40% × 70 = 71

    Cross Terrain: 60% × 69.2 (est.) + 40% × 71.3 = 70

    No road tests of dry for Cross Terrain. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.40).

  2. 76

    Wet

    Premium Contact 5 +2
    74
    Why this score
    SourcePremium Contact 5Cross Terrain
    Professional tests (TWG score) · 4 / – tests78≈ 73 (est.)
    Reviews found online7375

    Premium Contact 5: 60% × 78.3 + 40% × 72.5 = 76

    Cross Terrain: 60% × 72.8 (est.) + 40% × 75.1 = 74

    No road tests of wet for Cross Terrain. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.56).

  3. 71

    Comfort

    Premium Contact 5 +1
    70
    Why this score
    SourcePremium Contact 5Cross Terrain
    Professional tests (TWG score) · 1 / – tests75≈ 69 (est.)
    Reviews found online6670

    Premium Contact 5: 60% × 74.7 + 40% × 66.3 = 71

    Cross Terrain: 60% × 69.4 (est.) + 40% × 70.4 = 70

    No road tests of comfort for Cross Terrain. The test half is the tested tires’ average (69): owners’ comfort ratings barely follow the road tests.

  4. 71

    Noise

    No comparison
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    Why this score
    SourcePremium Contact 5Cross Terrain
    Professional tests (TWG score) · 4 / – tests73–
    Reviews found online≈ 67 (est.)–

    Premium Contact 5: 60% × 73.3 + 40% × 67.3 (est.) = 71

    No owner ratings of noise for Premium Contact 5. The owner half is the owners’ average (67): owners’ noise ratings barely follow the road tests, so the tests say nothing about how owners would rate it.

  5. 60

    Treadwear

    Cross Terrain +13
    73
    Why this score
    SourcePremium Contact 5Cross Terrain
    Professional tests (TWG score) · 1 / – tests69≈ 69 (est.)
    Reviews found online4878

    Premium Contact 5: 60% × 68.7 + 40% × 48 = 60

    Cross Terrain: 60% × 69.3 (est.) + 40% × 77.5 = 73

    No road tests of treadwear for Cross Terrain. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.31).

  6. 67

    Handling (owners)

    Cross Terrain +4
    71
    Why this score
    SourcePremium Contact 5Cross Terrain
    Reviews found online6771
Scores at a glance
CategoryContinental Premium Contact 5Michelin Cross Terrain
Relative Score 70 72
Dry 71 70
Wet 76 74
Comfort 71 70
Noise 71 –
Treadwear 60 73
Handling (owners) 67 71

Higher is better. The Relative Score follows your weights below; category scores do not change.

Weight the categories that matter to you

Wet grip starts at “Important”. Treadwear starts at “Neutral” here: road tests measured it for at most one of the two tires, so it rests on owner reviews. Move the sliders and the scores update instantly.

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Only one of the two tires has a score here, so this weight changes nothing in the head-to-head.

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Headline score

Premium Contact 5

Cross Terrain

Only categories both tires have data for count toward the headline score.

Pros, cons & observations

Themes extracted from owner reviews found online — not the opinion of TireWheelGuide.

Tire A Premium Contact 5

Pros

  • Exceptional grip in both wet and dry road conditions
  • High levels of ride comfort and low cabin noise
  • Predictable and safe handling characteristics

Cons

  • Rapid and premature tread wear
  • Soft sidewalls leading to vague steering feedback and body roll
  • Performance degradation as the tread depth decreases
All owner themes in the Premium Contact 5 review

Tire B Cross Terrain

Pros

  • Exceptional tread life and overall mileage
  • Superior quietness and ride comfort
  • Reliable grip and performance in winter conditions

Cons

  • Limited performance capabilities for high-speed or aggressive driving
  • Discontinued product availability
  • Performance bias favors winter conditions over dry or wet handling
All owner themes in the Cross Terrain review

Specs side by side

Attribute A · Continental Premium Contact 5 B · Michelin Cross Terrain
CategorySummerAll Season All Terrain and Off Road tires
Vehicle typePassenger Car / CrossoverSUV and 4x4
Sizes available23—
Rim diameters14″ – 17″—

Which one should you actually buy?

Continental Premium Contact 5

Michelin Cross Terrain

Narrow edge: Michelin Cross Terrain — better treadwear. Where the Continental Premium Contact 5 is ahead, it is by less than 3 points. Michelin Cross Terrain rests on little evidence so far (0 tests, 3 reviews), so read this result as provisional.

Pick tire B You want the longest tread life

Michelin Cross Terrain scores 73 vs 60 on treadwear.

Tire A · Continental Premium Contact 5
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Premium Contact 5 or Cross Terrain?

Which is better in the wet, Premium Contact 5 or Cross Terrain?

Neither, by our numbers: 76 vs 74 on the wet score, within 3 points.

Which grips better on dry roads, Premium Contact 5 or Cross Terrain?

Neither, by our numbers: 71 vs 70 on the dry score, within 3 points.

Which is more comfortable, Premium Contact 5 or Cross Terrain?

Neither, by our numbers: 71 vs 70 on the comfort score, within 3 points.

Which lasts longer, Premium Contact 5 or Cross Terrain?

Michelin Cross Terrain, 73 vs 60 on our treadwear score.

How do we compare tires?

Every category score blends two independent signals. 60% comes from professional tire tests (braking distances, lap times, noise measurements), each result compared with every other tire in the same test and newer tests counting more. 40% comes from owner reviews found online, adjusted for how generously each site rates. Both use one scale: the average tested tire gets 70, the best 100. When a tire has only one of the two, the missing half is estimated from the other and the score stays closer to average; with no road test and fewer than five owner reviews it gets no score yet.

Handling is the exception: road tests measure it inside the dry and wet scores, so its own row comes from owner ratings only and starts as less important.

Community buzz from Reddit and forums is shown for context only — it never changes the score. Full methodology