{"id":7951,"date":"2026-09-28T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetirelab.com\/mag\/autoview-tyre-test-2026-235-40-r18-continental-maxcontact-mc7\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:08:10","slug":"autoview-tyre-test-2026-235-40-r18-continental-maxcontact-mc7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetirelab.com\/mag\/autoview-tyre-test-2026-235-40-r18-continental-maxcontact-mc7\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoView tyre test 2026: 235\/40 R18 \u2014 Continental MaxContact MC7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AutoView compared 4 tyres in size 235\/40 R18.<\/p>\n<p>Hyundai Avante N Line (CN7) \u00b7 235\/40 R18<\/p>\n<p>The article was published in 2026; the measurements were made in 2025.<\/p>\n<h2>Results \u2014 summer tyres<\/h2>\n<p>Positions follow the original publisher classification. The percentages are separately weighted by Tyre Reviews and may differ from the publisher scores.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Continental MaxContact MC7<\/strong> \u2014 99.9% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Continental MaxContact MC7 is in position 1 of 4 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 99.9%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: wet (100.0%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: comfort (98.3%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kumho Ecsta Sport (PS72)<\/strong> \u2014 97.5% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Kumho Ecsta Sport (PS72) is in position 2 of 4 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 97.5%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: comfort (98.7%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: dry (96.3%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelin Pilot Sport 5<\/strong> \u2014 98.9% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin Pilot Sport 5 is in position 3 of 4 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 98.9%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: wet (99.5%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: comfort (94.5%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hankook Ventus Evo<\/strong> \u2014 97.1% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Hankook Ventus Evo is in position 4 of 4 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 97.1%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: comfort (98.8%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: wet (96.7%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The original test contains the raw measurements and full methodology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoview.co.kr\/ko-kr\/articles\/100684\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Original test<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AutoView compared 4 tyres in size 235\/40 R18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetirelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetirelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetirelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetirelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetirelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetirelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetirelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetirelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetirelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetirelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}