hunterone:
Wow RC you've driven the Trofeos or not on day to day basis ? I drive it till 5k km on my 12C and i can not complain. Plz don't give your comments when you've no clue.
The Trofeo is a horrible tire when the temperature isn't right, it needs around 70-80°C (tire tread temperature) to be sticky, otherwise you cannot really use it's potential. On some cars, it also needs a proper chassis alignment to gain the maximum performance.
How you want to achieve that (tread temperature) with the typical Middle European temperatures of around 15-18°C in spring or autumn is a mystery to me. Even on the track, you need to play with tire pressures to achieve that needed tread temperature but for public roads? Impossible.
Also, in the wet, the Trofeo needs...take a deep breath...10(!) meters longer to brake from 100 kph to 0 kph compared to the normal Pirelli PZero road tire. Yeah...really a good daily driver tire in Middle Europe where we don't have rain at all.
Last but not least, on normal roads, the Trofeo lasts maybe half the lifetime of a normal road tire and the Trofeo isn't exactly cheap.
So you seem to have a wonder tire there...congratulations.
Btw: CR drove over 50k(!) km with a Trofeo R in his 458 Spider...I think we know this tire pretty well.
I guess you read the part that I do not recommend semi-slicks for normal road driving, did you?!
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RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Porsche 991 Carrera 4 GTS Cabriolet, Porsche Macan Turbo, Audi R8 V10 Plus (2017), Mini JCW (2015), Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT (2014)