[BonzoHansen]

Mounted snows are nice too because then if you have nice wheels they do not get abused by road salt, and your 'summer tires' last longer (timewise). Oh, and that is another benefit, you car run summer tires and not stupid compromise all season tires (tires that do nothing particularly well).

On my civic in the summer I ran slightly larger pirelli P6s. Not the current crapola a/s version, but the old summer version (OE on cars like 911s). Car handled awesome as long as the temp was above 45*. Below that and they thumped and hollered like the old gatorbacks did in the cold. And lost a lot of 'sticky'. I swear gatorbacks below freezing developed their own ice. I could slide my TA like it was wet on a dry 20* day (until they heated up) LOL.