I was looking at a new set of tyres for my own car (a Golf IV 2.3) this week. It had come factory-fitted with Michelins which had an extremely impressive long life, I've covered almost 70,000 km on them and they are still legal and work well even in the rain. If the exact same specification (Michelin Pilot HX) was still available, I'd buy that, but Michelin have introduced a successor which, in comparison tests in the German press, was good but a bit behind the best. It seems I'll be running Bridgestone soon (Turanza ER 300). Any comments?