It all depends on how you want to drive your car. Soft/sticky tires will handle great but don't last very long or you can go with hard as bricks that will last a jillion miles but will squeal around an off ramp with your grandmother driving.
What do you do with your car and how do you drive it? Give us an idea and we can give you better recomendations based your style of driving. I drive the dog poo out of mine and like stickier tires, thus I have to live with the fact that they won't last very long.
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It won't be too long now and I'll need to get something on mine as well. I hate the ride of the run flats. When I talk to tire guys (Professionals) the ones at Goodyear claim they have to install run flats as that's what the car came with, and you have no spare. On the other side of the coin, the gents at Firestone say run what you want. It's your car.Now I know, those are two of the more expensive chains and theres lots of other tire stores with even better selections. I just had to put in my 2 cents.
Now if I could just get Roy to show me how it is exactly that his MINI runs on dog poo

I have a Daschund that is very willing to keep me up with some good stock