Depends on the quality of your dealer, and whether they get sales incentives from the tyre supplier.
I joined this forum to se if anyone else has done some comparison shopping in this regard. The advice from the competition tyre shop that I have been a customer of for several years is to go with the Toyo Garit HT. They're fairly expensive, but extremely highly rated. I'm going to outfit the A4Quattro with them probably within the next month, and then when the Edmonton winter kicks in I will have some hard- realtime data.
I've driven on Toyo GO-2's on both other cars, a Nissan Maxima GXE ('95) and our runabout VW Rabbit. In both cases, I wish I could carry the same level of grip throughout the year without sacrificing the compound.
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