Relative Score (0–100): 60% professional tests, 40% owner reviews.
Ultrac is ahead, 63–56
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Tests 61 · 14 tests Owners 64 · 416 reviews
“I have vredestein ultrac pro’s on my golf R currently in 245/40r18 - I have been very pleased with the performance for the price. They’ve taken over 1G in corners with no issues. Wearing pretty well about 5k miles in as well. I’d say they’re about 85-90% as good as a PS4S or EC02. Been surprisingly good in the rain too”
Tests – · none yet Owners 52 · 4 reviews
Relative Score per category, 0–100. Open “Why this score” for the tests and owner ratings behind it.
| Source | Ultrac | Bluearth E51 |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) | 82 | – |
| Reviews found online | 66 | 48 |
| Source | Ultrac | Bluearth E51 |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) | 90 | – |
| Reviews found online | 69 | 53 |
| Source | Ultrac | Bluearth E51 |
|---|---|---|
| Reviews found online | 65 | 38 |
| Source | Ultrac | Bluearth E51 |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) | 67 | – |
| Source | Ultrac | Bluearth E51 |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) | 10 | – |
| Reviews found online | 56 | 63 |
| Source | Ultrac | Bluearth E51 |
|---|---|---|
| Reviews found online | 65 | 45 |
| Category | Vredestein Ultrac | Yokohama Bluearth E51 |
|---|---|---|
| Relative Score | 63 | 56 |
| Dry | 76 | 55 |
| Wet | 81 | 57 |
| Comfort | 67 | 54 |
| Noise | 67 | – |
| Treadwear | 28 | 64 |
| Handling | 65 | 45 |
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Ultrac
Bluearth E51
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
Community opinion on Vredestein Ultrac and Ultrac Pro tires is overwhelmingly positive, with drivers praising them as a high-value alternative to premium brands like Michelin. Users frequently highlight their comfortable ride, low noise levels, and impressive dry and wet grip that rivals top-tier performance tires at a fraction of the cost.
“I just had a set of Vredestein Ultrac Sessanta put on. Initial thoughts... I got them in 275/40/20 for the fronts and 315/35/20 for the rears. They fit the wheels perfectly. I immediately noticed a much softer ride. Sport Mode now feels like Tour Mode, maybe even softer. I DD my ZL1 so cold weather performance is very important. Temps were near 40°F and they stayed quite grippy. This is a huge improvement over the stock Goodyear's. Initial turn in response is good. I had the opportunity to push them on an off ramp and they felt a little mushy when pushed and didn't seem to want to exceed .75g I had a set of these on a previous car (2004 ZO6) and expect great wet weather performance. I will update this post once I get some more miles on them. Read more”
“New boots! Vredestein Ultrac Pro 225s for the Turbo 3”
“Are budget tyres closing the gap to premium? I changed a set of tyres on my daily pd130 winter bash about and managed to get a set of vredestein ultrac for £80 a tyre fitted which I thought was a pretty good price. The tyre fitting service was saying to me that the gap between budgets and premium is much smaller in the last 10 years and that taxis tend to opt for budget tyres all the time and have no issues. Any thoughts on this? I’ve always gone for medium to higher end tyres. Leer más”
Based on 20 community posts
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| Attribute | A · Vredestein Ultrac | B · Yokohama Bluearth E51 |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Summer | Summer Premium Touring tires |
| Vehicle type | Passenger Car / Crossover | Passenger Car / Crossover |
| Sizes available | 65 | 2 |
| Rim diameters | 15″ – 21″ | 17″ – 18″ |
Vredestein Ultrac
Yokohama Bluearth E51
Winner: Vredestein Ultrac — better wet, dry and handling. Pick the Yokohama Bluearth E51 if treadwear matters most to you.
Yokohama Bluearth E51 scores 64 vs 28 on treadwear.
Vredestein Ultrac scores 81 vs 57 on wet.
Vredestein Ultrac scores 76 vs 55 on dry.
Vredestein Ultrac scores 65 vs 45 on handling.
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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.
Community buzz from Reddit and forums is shown for context only — it never changes the score.
