Comparison: Firestone Roadhawk vs. Firestone Roadhawk 2 (2026)
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The Roadhawk owns dry roads; the Roadhawk 2 owns aquaplaning — pick your priority.
Within Firestone's summer passenger tyre range, the Firestone Roadhawk and its successor the Firestone Roadhawk 2 occupy the same upper-middle segment but have ended up with genuinely different performance characters. The Roadhawk earned its reputation as a capable, dry-biased everyday tyre at a fair price, while the Roadhawk 2 represents a significant shift in priorities — building its identity around exceptional aquaplaning resistance and class-leading rolling efficiency. The result is a lineup where the choice is not simply old versus new, but dry-confident versus wet-safe, and both have legitimate cases to make.
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These tyres were not tested together. The comparison below is inferred from separate tests by normalizing both tyres against 10 shared benchmark tyres, so treat it as an estimate.
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