There is no such thing as the "best" tire. That completely depends on your objectives for the tire. Most items in tires that you might want to optimize come as trade-offs for other items. If you want a smoother ride, your going to sacrifice some handling. If you want high traction in snow, you're going to get terrible tread wear on hot dry pavement.
You need to define what items you want out of a tire:
Is the Michelin Primacy MXM4 the "best" tire? Well, if you like efficiency and smooth ride, then it's up there in the top choices. If you want to drive the car hard around corners on the track then it's not going to deliver. You'd want the Pilot Sport 4S for that.
- Dry Traction
- Wet Traction
- Snow/Ice Traction
- Handling
- Tread Life
- Efficiency
- Ride Quality
- Noise Level
- Convenience (All-Season vs. separate summer/winter tires)
- Price/Value
Either one of them are some of the best tires at allowing you to crash repeatedly into other cars if you use them on ice. If you need to do that, then find some Nokian Hakkapeliittas.
There's dozens of tires out there that fit the Model 3. You can find one that approximates most of what you want, but you have to know what that is.
As somebody once said true DAT. Here's a link to the testing on the Michelin pilot sport 4S. it's the best overall street tire you can put on your car, and as I said above it's a low rolling resistance eco-tire like the stock all-seasons, although one has to suspect it's not perhaps quite as good as the MXM4 in that regard. I've owned multiple pairs of its predecessor tire, the Michelin super sport. And I've had a chance to experience the 4S on our model 3 performance version. It's phenomenal.
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