Review: Hankook Dynapro Total Terrain Tire

An ‘all-terrain’ tire is harder to define than it used to be. There has been so much splintering of the market in recent years that an A/T can now be many different things, from a rugged-looking road tire that has more in common with a regular all-season than a truck tire, to a full-on, chunky black toroid that will dig you out of the deepest mud. Some come with 3-Peak Mountain Snowflake (3PMSF) certification, too, doubling up as a quasi-winter tire.

Into this diversified arena comes Hankook’s new Total Terrain, part of the Dynapro line that’s aimed at SUVs and pickup trucks. This new A/T is available only in Canada, and only at Canadian Tire (CT), one of the country’s biggest tire retailers, where it went on sale in August 2026.

Background and Design: Hankook Dynapro Total Terrain

Development of the new tire was handled by Hankook’s R&D team in its home country of South Korea, working to a brief from Canadian Tire and tapping into its existing portfolio of rubber-compound and tire-construction technologies. Note that Hankook already markets the Dynapro AT2, AT2 Xtreme, MT2, and AT-M – further flavours of all-terrain/off-road tire – at retailers across the US and Canada.

Testing was carried out on North American-market trucks at Hankook’s Techno Ring proving ground, after 12 months of initial (and reportedly trouble-free) development work. Canadian market requirements – in addition to specific requests from Canadian Tire – were built into the program via historical data and Hankook’s existing experience of Canadian conditions and tire use, while the team also leveraged data from US states with similar driving conditions.

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“For the Dynapro Total Terrain, we needed a tire that was going to suit the driving needs of the wider public,” explains Hye Kim, Hankook Canada’s marketing manager. “The target audience for the all-terrain segment is someone who needs on-road performance, but may then also spend time off-road, either for leisure, or because their house is a little further out, for which they may need that extra traction.” She adds that most all-terrain users in Canada need to be able to switch from on-road to off-road driving, without switching tires in day-to-day use – hence the need for a tire that can take care of both.

“…It felt all-season-like in its stability, without any of the wandering you might get from a more extreme off-road tire.”

To keep things quiet on paved roads, Hankook implemented noise-cancelling, irregular groove spacing, and staged tread-block edges. A tie bar in the outer shoulders extends part-way up the outer tread blocks – not only reinforcing the blocks, but to contain noise within the tread pattern, rather than allowing it to escape as tire roar. Meanwhile, the shoulder blocks extend around the shoulder, into the sidewall, for off-road bite – and simultaneously provide protection against cuts and impacts on rough terrain.

To echo a common theme in some of the latest all-terrain tires, the Total Terrain had to look the part – hence the chunky, “adventurous” sidewall design, as Kim notes, to attract consumers who value a tire’s aesthetics as much as they do its performance. However, 3PMSF winter certification – pretty much a must-have for Canada – underlines that the Total Terrain is more than a pretty face.

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Testing the Hankook Dynapro Total Terrain

Hankook invited TractionLife.com to the launch of the Hankook Dynapro Total Terrain in Alberta, Canada. Driving a mix of trucks, including Toyota Tacomas and GMC Sierras, we spent a day on- and off-road with the tire. We began the drive in the city before heading into the foothills to tackle a mixture of unpaved trails, from gravel roads to rockier and muddier tracks. Rock-crawling or other extreme terrains were not on the menu as that’s really not the target for this tire.

It’s always hard to judge a tire from limited running and without a back-to-back comparison with another product, but there were a few takeaways from the day. First, the Total Terrain’s presence wasn’t intrusive on the pavement – road noise was well suppressed – and it felt all-season-like in its stability, without any of the wandering you might get from a more extreme off-road tire.

Next, it provided the grip and feedback we needed to run at speed on a dry gravel road. And finally, when we did get to the tougher, low-speed terrain – including fording a river and dealing with wet, loose mud – it was easy to keep the truck moving, in the direction we wanted to go, with enough feel of the surface to provide confidence. 

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Hankook Dynapro Total Terrain Availability and Sizing

The Total Terrain is on sale now at Canadian Tire, in 20 popular sizes for SUVs and light trucks:

Longevity is promised by a limited treadwear warranty of 113,000km (70,000 miles) for P-metric sizes, and 97,000km (60,000 miles) for LT-metric sizes. Hankook says it will likely add more sizes in the future to cover even more vehicles.