Did not say they are. Stating get all season is, IMHO, not great advice. I simple use Tirerack, choose wet traction as first priority, then dry. The tires that come may very well be all season. My point, not all ‘all season’ tires are created equal.
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Absolutely, as it the case with all tires. I’d only advise getting the best.
The factory P-Zero summer tires that came on my Mustang when new were very sketchy when the temperature dropped below 45 degrees. With that said, I’ve had summer tires that were okay when the weather is clear, but temp was cold (freezing or around freezing). I’ve had good luck in cold weather with BFG G-Force something others ( I forget the specific model, but it had very unique tread pattern that I haven’t seen a while, they were popular in the early 2000’s).
Edit: They were BFG G-Force KDW2’s
I don’t know how more specific he could have been.
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Don’t people drive their sports cars less often during cold, wet seasons? Maybe the streets don’t get wet in Maryland. My coworkers don’t drive their sports cars on rainy days, no point in having 500 horsepower in the rain, might as well drive the other vehicle.
Of course it rains in Maryland. We get over 40” of rain each year. Unlike Seattle, ours is pretty much spread throughout the year. Since it doesn’t rain every day, there’s lots of opportunity to drive without rain.
A BMW M2 cost $20,000 more than a Mustang GT or about the same price as a Mustang Dark Horse Premium.
It would be like mounting all season tires on a Shelby Mustang to drive to work in nasty weather.
Wow, so much for the M2 being the ‘bargain’ M car, they’re all in the $75,000 range near me. Yeah, stick with the summer tires, drive it when temps allow, use the daily driver otherwise.
People don’t stop driving their sports cars just because it is raining around here, I see HellCats out year round, the little bit of snow we get is a different story… Sometimes driving in the rain with a good set of tires can be fun… A lot of younger peoples sports cars are their only cars… lol
The only reason I can see not to drive a fast car in the rain is if you are running DOT radial slicks.. and then some still drive them…
I got caught in the rain at work and had to drive 16 miles home in pouring down rain with a full Spool and no wiper arms/blades, slowest I ever drove the car anywhere… 
They may not consider how much car insurance will cost for a HellCat after the crash.
If you are not using your gas pedal as a on/off switch, why would you be more out to have a crash in a HellCat vs a 355HP Silverado in the rain, I drove a 2018 Silverado 120 miles round trip a day out of state for work for 2 months, put well over 4,000 miles on it and it rains a lot here except for July and August, I got the truck sideways on an on ramp in the rain (didn’t mean too, but it was a rush lol)…
Is ins higher on a HellCat, yes, but that doesn’t mean you will reck…
My coworker had a Challenger SRT8, he was more comfortable driving his pickup truck in wet weather. Plus, the Challenger stays clean in the garage.
I have to believe car insurance for a V8 Challenger is in the high-risk category, I’ve seen a lot of wrecked Challengers on the news.
This HellCAT crashed @ 140 mph.
I am surprised with all the drama about all-weather tires and warm weather tires especially after I posted the topic “The Average Price of New Cars in the US has topped $50,000 for the First Time…”
If you are driving a $70,000 or more vehicle and you cannot afford to buy all weather tires for winter weather driving or warm weather tires for summer driving, they you do not need to be driving such a vehicle especially when you consider that the National Average Salary is only $63,795.
And to put more sting into this posting, I hope you did not spend all your SNAP EBT benefits on Steak last month…
Clarify, please?
Do you believe this is a financial decision rather than a practical one?
There is no point in buying an extra set of tires for vehicle that won’t see any bad weather, they will age-out and be discarded, that is a waste of resources.
I’ve known some performance car enthusiasts that didn’t want a tire shop employee to touch their wheels, they brought their wheels and tires to our shop after hours to use the tire equipment. People like this do not want to deal with a seasonal tire/wheel exchange.
I bet a lot of these folks pay to have Nitrogen inflated tires… and having a set of (the other season’s) tires mounted on a separate set of wheels is a lot cheaper than having a spare car to run around in the snow in while the expensive vehicle is cooling its jets in the garage during the winter weather… Besides that second vehicle is probably in the same price class as the one they do not want to use…
And I know some folk will spend their children’s college funds on an ego-centric vehicle, or to fill a teenage fantasy of a “hot-car”…
And there are those who bought their car and kept it for decades and it is in near mint shape… I have a friend up in NYS whose mother worked at a Chevy dealer and he was able to buy a '67 Chevy Camaro real cheap, using his mother’s employee discount and the fact that “some nitwit” ordered one with a 396 ci engine, with a column shift automatic… And as it turned out their were like less than 20 of this configuration made. And he has been offered some amounts that stagger the imagination…
So, in these cases, I understand the tire issue, but as I indicated in the graphic, some folks will buy a vehicle way outside of their income range and even routine maintenance may be prohibitive…
…like a 1985 Toyota Corolla. Preserving a BMW M3 would have been more interesting. A friend of my roommate bought one in 1987; $35,000. “M” cars have always been expensive.
About 5 years ago a customer with a Lexus RCF struck a curb damaging both right side wheels: $5,000 for 2 tires and 2 wheels. Parts for limited production cars are expensive. If I owned a specialty car, I wouldn’t want to get it wet, much less drive in heavy traffic in wet weather. Extra-wide tires do not perform well on wet roads.
If Mike put Cooper All Terrain tires on his Corvette, he could drive it more often and put fewer miles on his Toyota.
Never wiser words spoken, in a tire context. Now how do we get the m a-s-s-e-s to realize that?
Boy, I wish I could do that. I remember back in the 70’s some garages would let you rent a bay and let you work on your car. Can you imagine that happening today in this Lawyer sue happy time?