Snow tires are snow tires. Mine are sitting waiting to be put on at the first sign of snow. I just took off my Azenis since we're supposed to get sleet this week and on went the all season Toyo Proxes 4.

But yeah I know what you mean about sluggish car with snow tires. I plowed into a field last year when I came around a corner a little too fast and just understeered into the farm with the Nokian snow tires I have. I forgot I had them on

I would personally (if you can) get a car that is meant for the snow so you don't crash your nicer car Get like a $1500 Civic and you don't have to worry about that car and your nicer car stays home in the nice warm garage.

 

Had them on my SVT Focus mounted to some sotck 16" rims. Worked well for me except when the snow was really deep but that was more of an issue of poor clearence.

 

Until you have worn them a little. Then they feel like normal tires in the snow.

 

Direct competitor as well. I picked the LM-25 because the M3 doesn't come in my size and the Pilot Alpin was more expensive and the resident tirerack guy on miata.net said they have a little less snow traction but better wear than the LM-25 and I don't drive enough to really care about slightly better wear. I could also have picked the Pirelli Wintersport 210 but apparently if you drive those in the dry a lot they lose their snow traction ability.
I dunno, I've driven Dweezel's Focus SVT on both his summer Continental ContiSportContact2 and winter Dunlop M3, and yeah, they felt like snow tires.

Maybe I just pay more attention to it? :dunno:

I could say something like how the Miata has lots of steering feel so maybe it's more noticeable to me, but then again I've noticed the same feel of snow tires on pretty much every car I've tried them on. h:

 

Luckily, here in KC, we don't have that many days where there is actual snow on the streets. My 92 civic does good but My 86 CRX ruled in the snow. Unstoppable.

 

My tires feel no different(Studless). I do loose grip some but whatever. My summer and winter tires are just tires that will fit for the best deal. When I get my CRX I'm persuding my parents to let me pay them some money for performance tires.

 

Are you guys getting snow in Madison? We got about .5" here in milwaukee :down: I put some tires on the escalade this summer and they did pretty good in the snow. I didn't break traction at all

 

It snowed a little bit last night like around 2 am or something but it didn't stick.

Tomorrow I'm driving to Chicago to hop a flight back home to DC. I realized it wouldn't take any longer than catching a flight out of Madison because there are no direct flights from here to DC so by the time I did all that connecting flight nonsense I coulda just drove to Chicago.

Not really much snow in the forecast for either here or Chicago for the next few days so it'll be a while longer before I actually get to try these buggers out in the snow.

 

We are supposed to get anywhere from an inch to two inches today. High temp in the high 20's. It's snowing now and about a 1/2" on the ground already. The dog is loving it.