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Originally Posted by ZOOMiata
Dedicated tires for each season is the way to go.
The biggest tire myth the North American consumer has swallowed in the last three decades is that of the all-season tire.
Our Protege5 is unstoppable with Michelin snows on it. My M3 (with LSD) is nearly so.
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IMHO, All season tires are really 3-season tires that offer adequate perfomance year round as long as there is no ice/snow on the road.
For snow conditions, you need snows or chains to keep going.
As I have not personally ever driven the new "studless" ice/snow tires, I cannot speak for their performance in ice but based on what I see, I would think they were fine for snow. IMHO , the only way you get traction in ice is to hit it with something harder (stud or chain) to break the surface so you have some grip.