Wow - used my Winter tires in anger today

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That soft, flobbery siped rubber that grips on snow and ice is just TOO soft and flobbery for dry asphalt. Proper summer tires will have way more grip.

Then again I would think that american "all-season" would be a good fit for UK weather?

Evo mag has just done a winter tyre test. Came to the same conclusion - in the dry, whatever temps, a summer tyre grips at least as well / often better than a winter. In the wet, no, in snow much worse. The Uniroyal winters I have on ruin the handling, it's a soft squidgy mess, but I'd rather that than be stuck on a 0.001% incline should it start to snow again between now and April.

Whatever tyres were on the Passat I was in today are seriously good, at least from the passenger seat at 130mph at times felt as rock solid as a bouncy diesel passat wagon can. I had to resort to posting in here as a distraction from the fear of impending death.