Winter Tire Opinions

[sil80drifter]

All right, I know most of you have praised the Blizzaks, and they lok pretty good at a pretty godo price (75 each from tirerack.com) but I also see a few others there that have a similar rating (tirerack rating) and are cheaper or more expensive. If anyone has owned the following WINTER tires, and has somethign to say about them, then go ahead: 1) Bridgestone - Blizzak WS-50 2) Firestone - WinterFire (w/or w/out studs)3) Michelin - Pilot Alpin4) Michelin - Arctic-Alpin5) Pirelli - Winter 210 SnowSport 6) Anyother WINTER tire nto mentioned here

Supposedly the Michelin ArcticAplin provide exceptional ice handling capabilities, but do not have silica compound, while the PilotAlpin do (is it important for winter tires to have silica compund?). I am leaning toward the Blizzaks right now, because I have heard good things about them, they are not ridiculously expensive, and seem to be well made to handle both snow and ice.

Anyway, your input guys...

sil80