QUOTE(ter001 @ Feb 19 2020, 12:01 PM)
Premium Brands Versus No-names
What emerged - every time - during four or five years of annual Wheels magazine tyre testing was that all the 'name' brands are pretty much a photo-finish. Bridgestone, Pirelli, Dunlop, Goodyear, Michelin, Continental, etc. They all performed about the same, overall. Often, the differences were below the bounds of experimental error - meaning that the differences between them were smaller than our ability to measure them.
Interestingly, the brands like (in particular) Kumho, Hankook, Toyo, Firestone, etc., were also very solid performers - in many cases just as good as the premium brands.

Hankook has often matches those other brands and I noticed recently in the Tyrereview UK website they are now included in the top tier premium brand category already, overtaking even Yokohama.
Toyo though only occasionally can match the best of those other brands, more often still below in most comparisons I have noticed. If prices of them can be much cheaper than those premium brands then maybe worth to try but if almost similar then better not.
Firestone not sure, not quite popular here anyway. It's an old rather popular brand in the US as part of Bridgestone sub brand, so maybe decent but theh don't seem to have offerings that can match the max performance category of the top brands like PS4S, CSC6, F1A5/SS or PZero PZ4.
Kumho though, not really. Never heard or read anything good about their products. Surely way below what Hankook has been able to deliver.