Relative Score (0–100): the weighted average of the categories below, each 60% road tests and 40% owner reviews (comfort 40/60). Based on 1 + 0 road tests and 1,507 + 28 owner reviews. How we score
Pilot Super Sport is ahead, 78–68
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Tests 75 · 1 test Owners 82 · 1,507 reviews
Best test result: #1 of 9 in 2017 Motor Mag UHP Tyre Test (dry handling)
“Damn. 295s on Style 359Ms? That's pushing it a bit, isn't it? I so desperately wish Michelin would make a 285/30 PSS. I'm running 275/35s now, and while I like the extra rubber on the road, I don't like the increased sidewall height over the OEM 265/35.”
Tests – · none yet Owners 66 · 28 reviews
Relative Score per category, 0–100. Open “Why this score” for the tests and owner ratings behind it.
| Source | Pilot Super Sport | Parada Spec-X |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) · 1 / – tests | 77 | ≈ 67 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | 90 | 65 |
Pilot Super Sport: 60% × 77.5 + 40% × 89.8 = 82
Parada Spec-X: 60% × 66.9 (est.) + 40% × 65.3 = 66
No road tests of dry for Parada Spec-X. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.42).
| Source | Pilot Super Sport | Parada Spec-X |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) · 1 / – tests | 73 | ≈ 72 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | 84 | 72 |
Pilot Super Sport: 60% × 73 + 40% × 83.8 = 77
Parada Spec-X: 60% × 71.7 (est.) + 40% × 72.4 = 72
No road tests of wet for Parada Spec-X. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.55).
| Source | Pilot Super Sport | Parada Spec-X |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) | – | ≈ 69 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | – | 66 |
Parada Spec-X: 60% × 69 (est.) + 40% × 65.7 = 68
No road tests of snow for Parada Spec-X. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.32).
| Source | Pilot Super Sport | Parada Spec-X |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) | ≈ 70 (est.) | ≈ 69 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | 76 | 68 |
Pilot Super Sport: 40% × 70.3 (est.) + 60% × 76.2 = 74
Parada Spec-X: 40% × 68.6 (est.) + 60% × 68.1 = 68
No road tests of comfort for Pilot Super Sport. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.20).
No road tests of comfort for Parada Spec-X. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.20).
| Source | Pilot Super Sport | Parada Spec-X |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) | – | ≈ 66 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | – | 73 |
Parada Spec-X: 60% × 66.3 (est.) + 40% × 72.7 = 69
No road tests of noise for Parada Spec-X. The test half is the tested tires’ average (66): owners’ noise ratings barely follow the road tests.
| Source | Pilot Super Sport | Parada Spec-X |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) | ≈ 69 (est.) | ≈ 63 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | 73 | 58 |
Pilot Super Sport: 60% × 68.7 (est.) + 40% × 72.7 = 70
Parada Spec-X: 60% × 63.4 (est.) + 40% × 57.8 = 61
No road tests of treadwear for Pilot Super Sport. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.36).
No road tests of treadwear for Parada Spec-X. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.36).
| Source | Pilot Super Sport | Parada Spec-X |
|---|---|---|
| Reviews found online | 83 | 70 |
| Category | Michelin Pilot Super Sport | Yokohama Parada Spec-X |
|---|---|---|
| Relative Score | 78 | 68 |
| Dry | 82 | 66 |
| Wet | 77 | 72 |
| Snow | – | 68 |
| Comfort | 74 | 68 |
| Noise | – | 69 |
| Treadwear | 70 | 61 |
| Handling (owners) | 83 | 70 |
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.
Pilot Super Sport
Parada Spec-X
Only categories both tires have data for count toward the headline score.
Themes extracted from owner reviews found online — not the opinion of TireWheelGuide.
From Reddit, forums and review threads. Not part of our score
The Michelin Pilot Super Sport is widely praised by the community as a benchmark high-performance street tire offering outstanding dry grip, sharp cornering capability, and decent ride comfort for daily driving. Many drivers note that its successor, the Pilot Sport 4S, improves upon it—especially in cold and wet conditions—while several users highlight downsides such as poor winter/snow capability, premium pricing, and eventual rubber degradation or tread cracking as the tires age.
“I encountered freezing rain with severe black ice in mid-March a couple days after I got my 3.6R. The tires behaved as expected. Awful. I'm planning to put Nokian Hakka R2 snow tires on the car like I've done on my last 3 cars. I normally do winter wheels but the TPMS senders are stupidly expensive and reprogramming at every tire swap had me look at the numbers. It's cheaper to pay for mounting & balancing every 6 months than buy winter wheels, TPMS , and buying the instrument to reprogram the car every 6 months or pay a tire shop to do the swap. That way, I know the tires are balanced properly every 6 months. When the stock tires wear out, I'll research tires then. I don't have a problem with the tires for summer use. They don't have road noise. I haven't had any issues with hydroplaning. I ran Michelin Pilot Super Sports on my last daily driver but I don't need a summer performance tire on a lifted 3,800 pound station wagon.”
“Worth bearing in mind the Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness. The tires I got on my new '17 RF GT didn't last very long, the two sets of cheap tires I replaced them with didn't either, then I put Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires on it and they're great performers as well as outlasting the earlier sets combined.”
“All four of my Michelin PSSs had cracks in the inner circumferential channels after prolonged exposure to temperatures below +20F (while the car was parked in a u-stor-it garage). All four of my Michelin PS 4Ss were never exposed to temperatures below +32F and did not develop similar cracks.”
Based on 364 community posts
We haven't collected enough community discussion about this tire yet.
| Attribute | A · Michelin Pilot Super Sport | B · Yokohama Parada Spec-X |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Summer | High Performance All-Season tire |
| Vehicle type | Passenger Car / Crossover | SUV and 4x4 |
| Sizes available | 50 | 23 |
| Rim diameters | 17″ – 23″ | 18″ – 24″ |
| Tread depth | — | 11/32″ |
| UTQG | 300 AA A | 420 A A |
| Sidewall | — | Blackwall |
| Max pressure | — | 51 psi |
| Sizes in common | 1 | 1 |
Michelin Pilot Super Sport
Yokohama Parada Spec-X
Winner: Michelin Pilot Super Sport — better dry, handling and treadwear. It leads or ties in every category we score.
Michelin Pilot Super Sport scores 82 vs 66 on dry.
Michelin Pilot Super Sport scores 83 vs 70 on handling.
Michelin Pilot Super Sport scores 70 vs 61 on treadwear.
Michelin Pilot Super Sport scores 74 vs 68 on comfort.
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Michelin Pilot Super Sport, 77 vs 72 on our wet score.
Michelin Pilot Super Sport, 82 vs 66 on our dry score.
Michelin Pilot Super Sport, 74 vs 68 on our comfort score.
Michelin Pilot Super Sport, 70 vs 61 on our treadwear score.
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
