Pirelli Cinturato P1 vs Continental Comfort 6: The Pirelli Cinturato P1 was first launch back in 2010 and has been serving the market ever since with a key focus on comfort and mileage. As Pirelli’s involvement in Formula one propel them into a premium status, let’s have a quick comparison against one of the leading premium brand Continental comfort 6 (CC6) which also has a key focus on comfort. We will use the test results from AutoHome as our reference.
The graph above shows the comparison between Cinturato P1 vs CC6 based on the relevant performance category. The Cinturato P1 was set as a reference hence at the 100% mark. Note that for handling evaluation, we equate 1 point as 5%. Hence for example if the tire A is graded 8 while tire B is graded 7, A is better than B by 5%. The natural scaling does not really make sense in evaluation whereby the max number is 10.
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Comfort
As both of products have comfort as their key performances, we would expect a really tough fight but CC6 superior dominace was shown by having a 9 grading compare to only a 6 grading of Cinturato P1.
CC6:
- +15% in comfort
Wet
Cinturato P1 clearly dominates when it comes the the wet criteria.
CC6:
- – 17% in wet braking
- – 5% in wet handling
- – 12% in aquaplaning
Things get really out of hand when Cinturato P1 managed to out brake CC6 by more than 6 meters in the wet braking test 🙁
Dry
Cinturato P1 is once again better than CC6 both in dry braking & dry handling.
CC6:
- -5% in dry braking
- –7% in dry handling
Rolling Resistance
CC6 has a slightly better rolling resistance compare to Cinturato P1. However as Cinturato P1 dominated both the braking categories, we expected a much higher differences due to the braking vs rolling resistance target conflict.
CC6:
- +4% in rolling resistance
Summary
Cinturato P1 has superior wet and dry performances compare to CC6. While CC6 clearly shows its strength in comfort & rolling resistance.