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Michelin has been making fantastic tires for years now. Its Pilot Sport series of summer performance tires has established itself as the industry standard that all other tires are compared against. They're found on everything from Porsches to BMWs to Rimacs. So when a new Michelin tire drops, the car world takes notice.
The French tire company revealed today an update to its Pilot Sport 4 summer tire, aptly named the Pilot Sport 5. Intended for sports cars and high-performance sedans, it gets a number of upgrades to make it perform even better than before. A feature Michelin calls "Dynamic Response Technology" uses a hybrid aramid and nylon ply to better translate the car's connection to the road. There's also the company's Dual Sport Tread Design tech, which uses the inner half of the tread for wet driving optimization and the outer half for dry-weather performance. As before, Michelin says the Pilot Sport 5 is the best-performing tire among its competitors when it comes to lifespan.
It's important to note that while Michelin has unveiled a Pilot Sport 5, it hasn't come out with a replacement for the even higher-performance and arguably more important Pilot Sport 4S—the successor to the magnificent Pilot Super Sport. But seeing as how that tire has been around for nearly 5 years now, we suspect a 5-badged variant will come soon.
The Michelin Pilot Sport 5 will be available in 50 dimensions spanning in sizes from 17 to 21 inches when it becomes available worldwide on March 1, 2022.
Road & Track staff writer with a taste for high-mileage, rusted-out projects and amateur endurance racing.
