Snow Tyres

loskie

From my experience in driving around 20000m per year on rural A & B roads they have done just fine.

Iceweasel

gabitzul wrote: »

I think you might have got this the other way round...

205/55/16 is one of the most popular tyre sizes - as fitted to most Civics, Focuses, Mondeos, Merc C-Class (W204 as basic size) and so many others.

Also, a wider tyre means there is more resistance (more contact witth the road), so more fuel will be needed. That's why eco (Prius for example, BMW i3) cars have narrow tyres....

I have no figures of total sales for a particular size - so you might be right about the popularity based on number of vehicles for which it is a fitment.

But - although a 215 tyre is nominally 10mm wider and might just have a tad more rolling resistance- it is approx 2% bigger in circumference so will revolve less often per mile - thereby saving fuel - but at the expense of slightly worse acceleration.

So likely to have a 2% saving in fuel costs - possibly outweighing that extra rolling resistance.

But no-one can tell for sure.