If you want a nice road tire, with a decent level of performance, and don't want to spend a fortune, try the Falken ZEIX 512's (sometimes ZE-512 or Z 512). I am on my second set of them; and got over 75K out of the first set. I do over 40,000 miles per year hear in south east Virginia. That said, they are on my BMW 325i, but my daughter drives a '96 850 turbo wagon and when her tires are gone, she'll be getting the Falkens. The few times we had snow down here, they did surprizingly well on the BMW which is nearly as bad as my old Alfa Milano was in snow and I grew up with lake effect snow so I do know how to drive in it. We (usually) get a lot of rain here and the Falkens are fantastic in the rain. The tires are also quiet and I have no problem taking sweeping turns at 85 MPH so there is reasonable performance from them. I got mine through hptires.net and their service was very good both times. I will do business with them again.

Good luck and for what it is worth, I am replacing struts and shocks in all four corners of the Volvo over the 7/4 "holiday." What daddy's do for daughters.