Originally Posted by GO_TL
Not exactly true. The HPT package is not a 'package'. It is a dealer installed option which simply swaps the TLs stock tires with P235/45R17 93W Bridgestone Potenza High-Performance tires. These tires are superb on dry roads and piss poor in wet or icy conditions.
...and that's where you're wrong. The Potenzas are extremely competant in wet conditions, much more so than all seasonals. You're talking to a person that has $600 tires on in the summer...Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3. I know my stuff about tires, and the fact is that the Potenzas on the HPT are an extremely good value. The Yokohamas on the A-SPEC are all seasonals that have very good grip, but you'd have to be insane to drive them on roads that have more than a dusting of snow on them. High performance all seasons comrpomise snow traction for dry traction, but not to the extreme that summer tires do. I prefer two sets of tires for both seasons.
And it's a package if I want to call it a package, because it really makes no difference.