ZESTINO
Sold in Japan through its Aichi subsidiary, with a real published list price — one of very few brands here that publishes both the pre-tax and tax-inclusive figure.
Models and prices
China — Qingdao Coop Tire Technology (Weihai, Shandong) · Japanese arm: Zestino Tyre Japan, Nishio, Aichi. On D1 Grand Prix's 2026 registered list (2026年D1GPシリーズ登録申請タイヤ一覧).
- GREDGE 07R — ¥12,650 (265/35ZR18, 税込) / ¥11,000 (235/40ZR17, 税込)
- Z-REX ZTS-8000 / 7000 / 5000
In the 265/35R18 price ladder on the directory: GREDGE 07R ¥12,650 (税込). Every brand at that size, side by side →
Widely assumed to be Japanese, Taiwanese or Indonesian. It is Chinese; the Aichi subsidiary is what causes the confusion. Note the price page is stamped 2024/05. Two lookalike domains to avoid: zestino.com is dead and zestinotires.com redirects to an unrelated tyre company.
Official site · verified 2026-09-14
What owners report
Every ZESTINO tyre review on Minkara, Japan's largest car-owner community — 385 reviews read 14–16 September 2026, counted rather than picked. “Fitted to” counts only reviews that mention drifting and say which axle; “chunking” counts reviews that mention it at all, split by whether the owner says it happened. Stars are Minkara's own 0–5 rating. Owner reports, not tests.
GREDGE 07R
- Fitted to (drift use): rear 1 · front 3 · both 6
- Chunking reported: 2 yes · 1 no
- Tyre life: 37 praise · 8 complaints
Reviews run back to 2016. Drift users fit it front and rear alike; grip is praised five times without a single complaint; chunking appears twice, once at the very end of a tread’s life.
Ran them as fronts, circuit only, from June 2017 to March 2018. They chunked right at the end when the tread was gone, but the grip held to the last. (review, Apr 2018)
ACROVA 07A (older line)
- Fitted to (drift use): rear 4 · front 1 · both 1
- Chunking reported: 1 yes · 0 no
- Tyre life: 15 praise · 2 complaints
Reviews from 2016–2020, bought as a drift rear at around ¥9,000 a tyre; the one chunking report calls it a possible bad batch.
Z-REX ZTS-5000
- Fitted to (drift use): rear 1 · front 1 · both 2
- Chunking reported: 2 yes · 1 no
- Tyre life: 9 praise · 1 complaints
The current entry line. Owners treat it as a practice tyre and praise its life 9 to 1.
Buying ZESTINO from Japan
Tyres are heavy and the cheap lanes close to them, so we buy domestically and quote the freight as one total — and tell you when buying locally beats importing. Send us the size and compound you want.
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