Alright! It is time for my review of these tires.
Dry weather: Surprisingly good. I have really had a blast on some back roads with these tires. They have approximately the same dry grip as the stock GS-2s if not a little better. They are far more predictable near the limit and there is no squirm - they just start to slide like a good tire should (cue the Winston man - never mind for you young bucks!). They have stiffer sidewalls giving the car top notch turn in - very quick, very accurate. Of course, the bumps crash a bit harder but, except for the past couple of weeks when my spine has been a mess, that is OK. Not bad even with the bad back.
Wet weather: They just do their job. Have not had Noah's flood so don't know about deep water but they have good grip in reasonable rain.
Snowy/Icy/Slushy/DC Area gunk: like what we got today. Can't go autocrossing in this stuff but they do very well. I passed a spun out Civic (new one so probably had good tires) and I was having no problems at all as long as I didn't mash the pedal or some other silly thing. I tried those silly things in a parking lot and they do rather well but naturally there are limits in the mush. I found them and they were predictable. Actually, my wife in her Murano had problems coming home and I didn't.
So - these tires are doing much better than I expected in dry and what I hoped for in the foul stuff. I am tickled pink (oh, no - pink - here comes GJ! - gotta go now!).
