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I'm sure you can get good tires by folks like Cooper or General, but I feel like the tires are the most important part of the car, and so I stick with what I'm confident will be good, Bridgestone or Michelin. I'd probably be willing to try a Continental or maybe Goodyear or Pirelli if a specific tire had a great reputation.

Years ago when I drove a non-turbo miata I tried a couple/few of the tires that folks raved about. One of them was the Yoko ES100 (IIRC). It had moderate grip compared to the other tires that I'd used. It had stiff sidewalls and lower limites, so I slid more and they wore fast. I was happy when I finally replaced those. I also tried one of the hot Hankook tires. They seemed to have good dry grip, but they loved to hydroplane and had poor wet grip which sucked for a daily driven car. I replaced those before they wore out. I also tried the Falken Azenis or something like that. They were much better than the other two, but I ended up going back to a Toyo that I'd previously had good results with. It wasn't too painful to experiment with the miata since a full set of tires was usually $400-450. On the Boxster, a full set of tires is 3-4x that, so I won't experiment much.