Vantage Tires was founded in 2014 to give drivers excellent tires at an affordable price. With precision-engineered tires, Vantage Tires envisions a world where drivers enjoy dependable performance and affordability on every route. Their founders, seasoned professionals with decades of expertise in the field, set out to design tires that are affordable for everyone yet excel in performance. Not to mention that Vantage Tires is your go-to travel partner whether you're traveling cross-country, negotiating rough terrain, or navigating city streets.

Designed for coupes, sedans, and minivans, the Vantage Touring AS is an all-season tire that offers drivers great handling, solid traction, and good longevity. While its circumferential and angled grooves resist the risk of hydroplaning by quickly clearing water from the tread to boost wet performance, a variable tread pitch of the Touring AS ensures you enjoy a quiet and comfortable drive.

However, is this tire suitable for your vehicle and your budget? Let’s take a look at the Vantage Touring AS review to help you make an informed decision.

Features and Benefits

All-season tires are designed to provide traction in dry, wet, and light winter weather conditions throughout the year. The Vantage Touring A/S has different features like an innovative tapered block, circumferential and angled grooves, sipes, and a variable tread pitch to offer year-round performance. Let’s check out its features and benefits:

• Enhanced all-season traction: All-season tread pattern to boost traction in dry, wet, and light winter weather conditions. Increased sipe focus towards the shoulders improves grip during cornering.
• Reduced risk of hydroplaning: To prevent hydroplaning, circumferential and angled grooves push water away from the contact area of the tire to consistent traction.
• Improved handling: Innovative tapered tread block design improves handling performance.
• Quiet drive: An optimized tread pitch reduces highway noise to offer a quiet driving experience.

Pros and Cons

Here are some pros and cons of the Vantage Touring AS:

PROS:

• All-season tread offers traction throughout the year
• Circumferential and angled grooves and sipes for improved wet traction
• Innovative tapered tread block design boosts handling
• Affordable

CONS:

• No mileage warranty
• Not designed for harsh winter weather conditions as these are not Three Peak Mountain Snowflake certified.

SimpleTire’s view on Vantage Touring AS tires

In short, the Vantage Touring AS is designed for use on coupes, sedans, and minivans and offers drivers great handling, good traction, and solid longevity. Its four wide grooves, tapered tread blocks, and variable pitch blocks all work together to contribute to a better performance. The Vantage Touring AS sports a good SimpleScore of 7.7, reliable longevity (7.4), confident handling (8.2), and solid traction (7.7).

Let’s use SimpleScore to get SimpleTire’s view on the Vantage Touring AS by comparing it with two other all-season tires of the same size 205/60R16 Ironman GR906 and Landsail LS388.

When compared to the Ironman GR906 and the Landsail LS388, the Vantage Touring AS has a better SimpleScore (7.7 vs. 7.6 vs 7.6) and a greater handling score (8.2 vs 7.9 vs 8.1). However, the Ironman GR906 and Vantage Touring AS have comparable longevity values, 7.2 and 7.4, respectively. The Landsail LS388 and Touring AS have identical traction scores (7.7). In addition, the Vantage Touring AS is less expensive than the other two tires.

So, if you are looking for an affordable all-season tire with crisp handling, go for the Vantage Touring AS.

Vehicles the Vantage Touring AS is a good replacement tire for

When your original tire wears out, consider the Vantage Touring AS for vehicles like:

• Chevrolet Cruze
• Hyundai Elantra
• Nissan Sentra
• Skoda Laura
• Volkswagen Beetle