Vredestein Ultrac Cento looks discontinued: no new owner reviews or road tests in five years and no current EU tyre label.
Relative Score (0–100): the weighted average of the categories below, each 60% road tests and 40% owner reviews (comfort 40/60). Based on 13 + 0 road tests and 2,509 + 23 owner reviews. How we score
Ventus Prime 4 is ahead, 77–71
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Tests 78 · 13 tests Owners 71 · 2,509 reviews
Best test result: #1 of 21 in 2022 Auto Bild Summer Tyre Test (dry handling)
“Simbolul cu mașina și fulgerul de pe Hankook Ventus Prime 4 arată că anvelopa e compatibilă și cu mașini electrice (EV), nu că e destinată exclusiv lor. Poate fi folosită fără probleme și pe mașini cu motor termic.”
Tests – · none yet Owners 73 · 23 reviews
Relative Score per category, 0–100. Open “Why this score” for the tests and owner ratings behind it.
| Source | Ventus Prime 4 | Ultrac Cento |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) · 11 / – tests | 84 | ≈ 69 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | 73 | 71 |
Ventus Prime 4: 60% × 84.2 + 40% × 73.4 = 80
Ultrac Cento: 60% × 69.3 (est.) + 40% × 71 = 70
No road tests of dry for Ultrac Cento. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.42).
| Source | Ventus Prime 4 | Ultrac Cento |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) · 12 / – tests | 81 | ≈ 72 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | 75 | 74 |
Ventus Prime 4: 60% × 80.5 + 40% × 74.6 = 78
Ultrac Cento: 60% × 72.5 (est.) + 40% × 73.9 = 73
No road tests of wet for Ultrac Cento. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.55).
| Source | Ventus Prime 4 | Ultrac Cento |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) · 1 / – tests | 70 | ≈ 70 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | 68 | 71 |
Ventus Prime 4: 40% × 70.3 + 60% × 67.9 = 69
Ultrac Cento: 40% × 69.5 (est.) + 60% × 71.4 = 71
No road tests of comfort for Ultrac Cento. The test half is the tested tires’ average (69): owners’ comfort ratings barely follow the road tests.
| Source | Ventus Prime 4 | Ultrac Cento |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) · 8 / – tests | 58 | – |
| Reviews found online | ≈ 67 (est.) | – |
Ventus Prime 4: 60% × 57.6 + 40% × 66.6 (est.) = 61
No owner ratings of noise for Ventus Prime 4. 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.
| Source | Ventus Prime 4 | Ultrac Cento |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) · 5 / – tests | 78 | ≈ 69 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | 67 | 75 |
Ventus Prime 4: 60% × 78.2 + 40% × 66.7 = 74
Ultrac Cento: 60% × 69.3 (est.) + 40% × 75.3 = 72
No road tests of treadwear for Ultrac Cento. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.35).
| Source | Ventus Prime 4 | Ultrac Cento |
|---|---|---|
| Reviews found online | 72 | 69 |
| Source | Ventus Prime 4 | Ultrac Cento |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) · 8 / – tests | 83 | – |
| Category | Hankook Ventus Prime 4 | Vredestein Ultrac Cento |
|---|---|---|
| Relative Score | 77 | 71 |
| Dry | 80 | 70 |
| Wet | 78 | 73 |
| Comfort | 69 | 71 |
| Noise | 61 | – |
| Treadwear | 74 | 72 |
| Handling (owners) | 72 | 69 |
| Efficiency | 83 | – |
Higher is better. The Relative Score follows your weights below; category scores do not change.
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.
Only one of the two tires has a score here, so this weight changes nothing in the head-to-head.
Only one of the two tires has a score here, so this weight changes nothing in the head-to-head.
Ventus Prime 4
Ultrac Cento
Only categories both tires have data for count toward the headline score.
Per discipline: the average % of the best tire over every test both tires were in, and how many of those tests each one won. “Different tests” rows compare results from separate tests.
| Discipline | Category | Ventus Prime 4 | Ultrac Cento | Δ | Head-to-head |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Also published by the testers (not in the score) | |||||
| Overall Ranking | Overall | #11/16 2026 ADAC Summer Tyre Test | #27/49 2014 Auto Bild 50 Summer Tyre Shootout | – | Different tests |
Themes extracted from owner reviews found online — not the opinion of TireWheelGuide.
From Reddit, forums and review threads. Not part of our score
Community opinion on the Hankook Ventus Prime 4 is largely positive, with drivers viewing it as a comfortable, quiet, and capable touring tire. Users frequently praise its strong dry and wet performance alongside its compelling price-to-performance ratio compared to premium alternatives like Michelin. Some uncertainties exist regarding long-term tread wear and slight fuel economy impacts, but owners generally report satisfactory everyday reliability.
“Found a cut on one of my tires, is it 100% cooked? Three month old Hankook Ventus Prime 4 and I found a cut/split. It’s holding air fine but it is cooked?”
“Top top top guma, stavio prosle godine kad sam kupio auto, odmah na Kupres isao, snijega i leda bilo dosta, ali izdale me nisu Imam i ljetne hankook ventus prime 4 isto odlicna guma”
“Aim for rainy condition. Best are 1.Bridgestone Turanza 005 2.Hankook ventus prime 4.”
Based on 41 community posts
We haven't collected enough community discussion about this tire yet.
| Attribute | A · Hankook Ventus Prime 4 | B · Vredestein Ultrac Cento |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Summer | Summer |
| Vehicle type | — | Passenger Car / Crossover |
| Sizes available | 66 | — |
| Rim diameters | 15″ – 20″ | — |
Hankook Ventus Prime 4
Vredestein Ultrac Cento
Winner: Hankook Ventus Prime 4 — better dry and wet. Where the Vredestein Ultrac Cento is ahead, it is by less than 3 points.
Hankook Ventus Prime 4 scores 80 vs 70 on dry.
Hankook Ventus Prime 4 scores 78 vs 73 on wet.
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Hankook Ventus Prime 4, 78 vs 73 on our wet score.
Hankook Ventus Prime 4, 80 vs 70 on our dry score.
Neither, by our numbers: 69 vs 71 on the comfort score, within 3 points.
Neither, by our numbers: 74 vs 72 on the treadwear score, within 3 points.
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
