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During one of our recent performance rating tests on hard braking in an emergency situation, a lower âSâ rated tire driving 100 kilometres per hour was still going almost 25 km/hr when the higher âVâ rated tire stopped. The âSâ rated tire took 39 metres to stop. The âVâ rated tire stopped in 35 metres.
An S-rated tire is nominally capable of a sustained speed of 112 mph. I'm sure that if you went 115 mph, it's not going to blow up. Or even 120 mph. But wait -- the next speed rating (T) is at the 118 mph level, so there must be a rather defined line between those two speeds of what a given tire can handle.