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Excellent video. One question, however, is whether the Brits' summer tires are basically the same as our all-season tires, which are what most everyone drives on in North America.

I would say that Consumer Reports Magazine did testing and came to similar -- if not so dramatic -- conclusions.

Bit of an old bit of forum dredging on my part but probably something people might be interested in anyway; having grown up in the UK, I have to say the Brits are willfully obtuse about tires -- they would always buy basically what we'd consider summer tires and tend to use them year round and then wonder why they have zero traction in half an inch of snow. And the typical US all-season generally wasn't widely available there...I don't know for sure about now. Nokian does a variation of their WRG tire for the UK market and I hope others are following suit, because really, it's a perfect year-round tire for the UK climate. And indeed that's a summer tire that they're failing up the ski slope with. Quite different from most of central and eastern Europe......see the link below.

https://www.continental-tires.com/transport/knowhow/european-winter-regulations