Buyer's Guide: Top 8 Best Minivan Tires You Can Buy

The Michelin Primacy MXV4 is our pick for the best minivan tire. It's a grand touring all-season tire that has been developed for coupes, sedans, family minivans, and crossovers. The Primacy MXV4 offers a quiet and comfortable ride, long tread life, responsive handling, and all-season traction, including in light snow. These tires feature an all-season tread compound that has been molded into a symmetric design, combining notched shoulders, independent intermediate tread blocks, and continuous center ribs.

The company has also outfitted it with its Active Sipes, which alternately lock together and open as needed, providing increased biting edges that grip the road for all-season handling, especially in rain and snow.

Helping ensure this tire has a tuned footprint shape and long-lasting, even treadwear is Michelin's Advanced MaxTouch Construction. To reduce vibrations and road noise caused by the tire, Michelin uses its Comfort Control Technology, a computer-optimized design and precision manufacturing process. Internally, this tire features twin steel belts that have been reinforced with Michelin's Banded At Zero (BAZ) Technology, which is spirally wrapped polyamide. This provides high-speed durability and enhanced ride comfort.

This highway all-season tire is designed for minivans, pickup trucks, and SUVs. Developed to combine long tread life with all-season capabilities, the Michelin Defender LTX M/S delivers a smooth and quiet ride all-year round. These tires take advantage of Michelin's Evertread compound, touted as a stronger and more advanced compound designed to hold up to tougher conditions with better durability. It's molded into a symmetric tread design with stable independent blocks with high density 3-D Active Sipes for all-season traction.

You'll also find four wide circumferential channels, multiple lateral grooves, and open shoulder slots on this tire, all of which work together to enhance wet traction and stopping performance. The tire maker's MaxTouch Construction contributes to the Defender LTX M/S by producing a contact patch that promotes reliable traction and long wear by evenly distributing driving forces.

Internally, this tire's structure features twin steel belts, providing strength and durability to handle heavy loads. It's worth noting that this tire does not meet severe snow traction requirements, so it's not branded with the three-peak mountain snowflake (3PMSF) symbol.

Michelin's grand touring all-season offering is the Premier A/S, a tire developed for coupes, sedans, and minivans. The Premier A/S delivers category-leading wet grip when new and when worn. In fact, Michelin claims even when worn, this tire will stop shorter on wet roads than leading competitors' brand new tires. It also provides all-season traction on wintry roads, even in light snow.

This tire is a Michelin Total Performance tire, meaning it utilizes innovative technologies to bring multiple performances together. The result is a product that offers stopping power, driving control, promised weather appropriateness, and enhanced fuel economy, without the number of trade-offs normally associated with tires.

Helping increase traction in wet and cold temperatures is a tread compound that uses extreme silica that has been enhanced with sunflower oil. The compound is molded into a symmetric tread design, boasting a continuous center rib that has been flanked by notched intermediate ribs and linked shoulder blocks for straight-line tracking and responsive dry road handling.

The company's EverGrip Technology equips this tire with Expanding Rain Grooves around its circumference, as well as Emerging Grooves across the shoulders. As the Premier A/S wears, the Expanding Rain Grooves widen and the Emerging Grooves open up across each shoulder block. This helps retain more traction in wet and wintry conditions.

Internally, this tire's structure features twin steel belts that have been reinforced with spirally wrapped polyamide cord on top of a polyester casing ply. This combines handling and durability with ride uniformity and comfort.

Another grand touring all-season tire is the Bridgestone Turanza Serenity Plus. This tire is developed for mid-level and premium luxury coupes, sedans, minivans, and crossovers. This is Bridgestone's ultimate in luxury, elegance, and comfort, offering long wear with dry, wet, and wintertime traction, including in light snow.

This tire molds a high-silica percentage reinforced, Long Link Carbon Black tread compound into an asymmetric design that has Resonance Noise Attenuated (RENOA) silencer grooves. These grooves are designed to reduce acoustic tones, along with the continuous center and shoulder ribs that help minimize noise and provide constant road contact to enhance straight-line stability.

Helping this tire resist hydroplaning are three circumferential and multiple lateral grooves that help evacuate water. Internally, this tire's structure uses twin, high-tensile steel belts reinforced by spirally wrapped nylon to stabilize the tread area. This also enhances handling, high-speed capability, and ride quality while minimizing weight. Also helping deliver good ride quality, steering response, and cornering stability are a polyester cord body and rubber sidewall reinforcements.

If you're shopping for a studless ice and snow winter tire, the Bridgestone Blizzak WS80 is designed for compacts, coupes, sedans, and minivans. This tire provides confident vehicle control during the winter season, using the company's next-generation adaptive NanoPro-Tech Multicell compound. This fancy-sounding compound features a water-loving hydrophilic coating and microscopic bite particles, allowing it to remain flexible in below-freezing conditions while wicking water off the road to prevent slipping on packed snow and ice. The bite particles also serve as microscopic studs, delivering more grip and improving braking on glare ice.

The Bridgestone Blizzak WS80's compound is molded into a directional tread design with block edges with circumferential and lateral grooves to help channel water, slush, and snow from the contact area. There are also 3D Zig-Zap sipes to increase the number of snow biding edges.

Overall, this tire offers an optimized tire footprint or contact patch with the road, which helps distribute forces evenly and effectively, resulting in better stability and control in dry, ice, and snowy conditions.

This tire does meet the industry's severe snow requirements and are branded with the three-peak mountain snowflake (3PMSF) symbol.

As Goodyear's premium passenger all-season tire, the Assurance TripleTred offers all-season traction and performance for coupes, sedans, and minivans. This tire is designed with three unique tread zones to boast year-round driveability and all-season traction, even in light snow. Sporting a directional tread pattern, those three distinct tread zones are: Dry Zone, Water Zone, and Ice Zone. The Dry Zone sports large shoulder blocks for confident maneuvering on dry pavement, while the Water Zone focuses on using sculptured Aquachannel grooves to rid water and slush for increased traction on wet roads. The Ice Zone takes advantage of a unique tread compound that consists of innovative polymers mixed with traction-enhancing volcanic sand and glass fibers. That compound is molded into a continuous center rib with multiple biting edges, which further enhances gripping traction on slick roads, packed snow, and ice.

The Goodyear Assurance TripleTred has a tread pattern that features Goodyear's Evolving Traction Grooves. These grooves begin their lives as 1/10-inch wide sipes in order to maximize footprint contact while the tire is new. As the tire wears, these grooves broaden into wider lateral grooves. The internal structure of this tire uses twin steel belts reinforced with spirally wound polyamide to blend ride quality with durability. It also features a polyester cord casing for increased ride comfort.

This is Yokohama's first mass-produced grand touring all-season tire in the U.S. using the company's Orange Oil technology. The Avid Ascend is branded with Yokohama's BluEarth eco-friendly identification and is developed for coupes, sedans, minivans, and crossovers. Blending long treadwear with low-rolling resistance an all-season traction, this tire also works in light snow. This tire features H- or V-speed rated sizes and is part of an ecologically friendly series of tires that focus on delivering environmentally, human, and socially friendly solutions for vehicle owners.

Using a mildly asymmetric tread design, the Avid Ascend consists of three ride zones that focus on dry grip, water evacuation, and wintertime traction. There are also large outboard shoulder blocks that are connected by tread block bridges to maintain tire contact with the road. Those features help enhance dry response and cornering stability for this tire.

Providing constant rubber-to-road contact is a continuous center rib, which also enhances straight-line tracking, while its tapered outboard edge delivers more even wear. For hydroplaning resistance, the Avid Ascend uses cross grooves and four circumferential grooves to keep water away from the tread. Yokohama also outfits this tire with its 3D Adaptive Sipes, which provide more tread block rigidity for longer wear, as well as biting edges that increase wet and wintertime traction. Lastly, inboard tread blocks boast higher density 3D Adaptive Sipes, providing even more biting edges for increased inter traction in light snow.

Internally, the Yokohama Avid Ascend uses twin steel belts reinforced by spirally wrapped nylon on top of polyester body plies.

This is a studless ice and snow tire developed for coupes, sedans, minivans, and crossovers that need enhanced wintertime traction. The Goodyear Ultra Grip ICE WRT features "Winter Reactive Technology," which combines innovative features that work together to help drivers react to changing winter driving conditions when starting, stopping, and turning in snow and on ice.

This tire's compound has been molded into a directional tread design with sweeping grooves, helping channel water and slush away from the tire's footprint. This also enhances traction and handling in cold, wet, and wintry conditions. For this tire, Goodyear uses two types of sipes to provide biting edges for additional wintertime traction, along with angled three-dimensional TredLock Technology sipes found on the shoulder zones. Those lock together to enhance cornering grip, while 2D sipes can be seen running laterally across the center zone, which enhance starting and stopping power on snow and ice.

This tire also meets the industry's severe snow service requirements and feature the 3PMSF symbol.