Here at SimpleTire, we’ve gone through and rounded up some of the best all-weather, winter, and all-season tire choices for your Lincoln Nautilus, then sorted them out into Best/Great/Good rankings according to our SimpleScore system. Ready? Let’s go in for a closer look:
1. Goodyear Assurance MaxLife - Best All-Season tire
We’re going to kick off this list with the Goodyear Assurance MaxLife, an all-season tire that we’ve consistently been impressed with for its amazing capability and versatility. It’s a tire that delivers both year-round grip and performance that’s exhilarating and inspiring for drivers. For over a century, drivers have associated the Goodyear brand with value and quality, and the Goodyear Assurance MaxLife is a tire that lives up to everything you’d expect from a Goodyear product. The Goodyear Assurance MaxLife features an advanced tread formulation and tough internal design for long wear and durability, definitely living up to the Maxlife model name. With that in mind, our SimpleScores rankings grant the Assurance MaxLife a fantastic longevity score of 9.9. The Assurance MaxLife has a best-in-class 85,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty thanks to Goodyear’s TredLife technology package. A semi-solid center rib enhances steering feedback and response as well as straight–line stability, for road manners and steering response that are top-notch. Braking performance, cornering, and maneuverability are all pretty impeccable as well, with semi-closed shoulders, a sticky tread formula, and a polyamide reinforcement layer for the rigidity you need. After taking all of that into account, we totaled up a SimpleScore of 9.5 for handling. A pattern of sipes adds hundreds of extra biting edges to multiply grip for wet or wintry conditions. In addition, a network of circumferential grooves, plus angled and lateral grooves all work together as a system that resists hydroplaning by cutting through a film of water, channeling it behind the tire’s contact patch. When a tire gives you that kind of confidence for cornering and braking in wet or dry weather, we figure that’s enough for a SimpleScore of 9.7 for traction.
2. Bridgestone WeatherPeak - Best All-Weather tire
Next up is the Bridgestone WeatherPeak, a great all-weather tire choice for your Lincoln Nautilus. If you’ve ever had the experience of trying to get through deep snow and hard winter weather, you’re usually going to find out the hard way that many (if not most) all-season tires are just not capable of reliably getting you through anything more than a light dusting of snow or slush on the pavement. All-weather tires are designed around the same performance goals as all-season tires but with an emphasis on better traction in winter conditions. With that in mind, Bridgestone designed the tread of the Weatherpeak around a dense pattern of sipes, the hair-thin slits that add hundreds of extra biting edges, giving drivers the extra advantage in grip they need for deeper snow or slush. An innovative design feature is Bridgestone’s sipes, full-depth 3D design that continues to be effective even as the tire’s tread depth wears down. In addition, the Weatherpeak features “snow vices”, grooves that trap and retain snow and use it to build snow-to-snow friction. As you might expect, the Bridgestone Weatherpeak has the Three Peak Mountain Snowflake certification for severe winter service; results at the test track and real-world experience have shown an improvement in winter braking distances, as much as 30 feet shorter than the competition’s tires. With that all in mind, we gave the Bridgestone Weatherpeak a SimpleScore of 9.7 for traction. Steering response and cornering are also strong points for the Weatherpeak; its SimpleScore of 9.5 for handling comes from its rubber formulation and tread features. We’re also impressed with the road manners, steering response, and cornering ability of this tire, across a wide range of changing weather conditions. Bridgestone backs the Weatherpeak with a 70,000 mile limited manufacturer’s tread life warranty, the kind of warranty coverage that’s enough for us to award it a SimpleScore of 9.8 for longevity.
3. Nokian Nordman 9 SUV Studded - Best Winter tire
Nokian is a Finnish-based tire maker (yes, the same parent company as Nokia phones) that has long specialized in the kind of tires that are up to the rigors of a tough Scandinavian winter. Granted, the US isn’t Finland, but there are still parts of the country that might regularly have snow and ice on the roads for days or weeks at a time after a heavy snowfall. When that’s the case, you may have already found out you can’t rely on most all-season tires to reliably get the job done for you. The Nordman 9 SUV Studded from Nokian is the kind of tire you need – a great choice in a winter tire that’s loaded with next-generation features and performance. The specialized tread formulation of the Nordman 9 SUV Studded is designed to stay flexible in extreme cold for enhanced traction in subfreezing weather. It also is designed with a tough Aramid-reinforced sidewall for durability. With all that taken into account, we give the Nordman 9 SUV a SimpleScore of 9.4 for longevity. For the traction you need to get through deep snow and slush with confidence, there are directional tread designs with deep grooves, Snow Claws, and sipes. If an ice storm comes through and you have to get around on hockey rink-like roads, the Nordman 9 SUV Studded is available with studs installed, or pre-drilled for studs (remember that studded tires are not legal in all states and only for certain months in others - check your state laws). We give the Nokian Nordman 9 SUV Studded a SimpleScore of 9.9 for traction. Cornering, control, and roadability are precise and direct, thanks to the reinforced sidewall and tread pattern – enough for a solid 9.0 SimpleScore for handling. It’s also worth noting that the Nordman 9 SUV Studded’s tread compound is eco-friendly, with silica, canola oil, and natural rubber components, and is designed for low rolling resistance to save on fuel costs.
These are all some of the best Lincoln Nautilus tires, but why stop there? Here are some other great choices as well:
4. Kumho Crugen HT51 - Great All-Season tire
We’re going to close things out with the Kumho Crugen HT51. Kumho designed the Crugen HT51 with an innovative tread pattern that’s designed to offer great traction and wear properties, with a zigzag pattern of 3D sipes for winter grip, an optimized geometric block layout, lateral grooves, and wide circumferential grooves. The Kumho Crugen HT51 is a strong enough performer in winter conditions to get the Three Peak Mountain Snowflake rating for severe winter service. We’re also impressed with the durability of the Crugen HT51l, with a long-wearing tread compound, and polyester/steel belt/nylon casing design. Kumho backs this tire with a 70,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty for a longevity score of 9.6. With its slotted shoulder and rigid tread blocks, handling is predictable and stable for a SimpleScore of 8.9.
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