You're comparing it to a bunch of all seasonals and the Yokos, which I don't need to tell you suck
I've owned (besides the stock tires): Potenza S-03, Dlop SP9000, Potenza S-03, Yoko ES100 and Goodyear GS-D3. Plus my current Goodyear Tripletreds, which are simply amazing for how they handle both dry and snow. Here's how I would rank them:
Dry Traction
1) S-03
2) GS-D3
3) SP9000
4) ES100
5) Tripletred
Wet Traction
1) SP9000
2) GS-D3
3) Tripletred
4) S-03
5) ES100 (downright scary hydroplaning a couple of times)
Reflexes
1) GS-D3/S-03
2) SP9000
3) ES100
4) Tripletred
Forgiveness/Predictability
1) GS-D3
2) Tripletred
3) SP9000
4) S-03
5) ES100
Noise/Comfort
1) Triplered
2) GS-D3
3) S-03
4) ES100
5) SP9000 (when they found a rut in the road or a seam they WENT with it)
The GS-D3 was by far my favorite and a great all around tire...I also got tons of compliments on how they looked. The SP9000 was AMAZING in the wet but dry was mediocre. The S-03 was a great dry tire that had a pretty high threshold but I didn't like how they felt on my car...the GS-D3's would start to break away so you could slide a little bit, whereas if the S-03's broke away you were probably headed in a ditch. I wouldn't recommend the S-03 for anything other than RWD performance cars. The ES100's...decent dry handling, although my current tripletreds do just as well and also are amazing in the snow. But they wore out in 8k miles, I have no idea how. I took one corner very fast lon the way to work like 8 times and they were done for. Maybe on a lighter car they'd be a lot better?
If you want all out performance, I'd go with Pilot S2's, GS-D3's, or the new Dunlop SP Sport Maxx.
But the damn Tripletreds are so good I don't even miss my summer tires much, and I don't need to switch into ugly steel wheels with 15" snow tires every winter
