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RUBBER MEETS THE RULER

While the subject ‘which 4x4 is the best’ is likely to stimulate lively debate, the arguments around the best tyres to fit your 4x4 comes a close second.

The recent articles, correspondence, and updates in SA4x4 regarding the comparative tyre tests that you conducted is evidence of this. I would like to contribute to this further by adding a rather simplistic analysis of the debate.

What I have done is compile a correlation table based on the data provided by SA4x4. The purpose of this is to determine if certain specifications or criteria have a strong relationship, either positive or negative, to other criteria provided in the data.

• In my correlation table, as an example, there appears to be a significant negative relationship (Point #1)