Just ordered my 4th set of tires (5th on the car counting the originals) from the Tirerack. Probably the best of the online tire places and even with shipping, quite a bit cheaper than local dealers. This car has gone through tires quite regularly, so I'm curious to hear what kind of mileage others have gotten out of different brands. The size on this car is 205/55/16 which makes em a bit harder to come by locally. The cronology on the previous tires has been as follows:

OEM's: dont remember what they were, wore out at about 30K miles.

Replaced them with Pirelli P6000 Sport Veloci's (try to sound Italian when you say that...) First and only set of V rated rubber I have put on it, got about 35K out of em and they drove fairly well. Cost about 106 from the tirerack back in 1999.

Tried a set of Conti ch95's after that. Paid about 60 a tire from the tirerack and they lasted about 25K. OK riding tire, were H rated I believe.

Lucked out and found a set of Pirelli P3000 tires from Discounttiredirect.com
Paid about 60 a tire, but these suckers had a treadwear rating of 620. So far have gotten about 45-50k on em and would get a bit more 'cept the rears are worn down to the bars due to a slow leak or two. Believe these were T rated tires, but never noticed any degredation in handling. As a matter of fact, the ride was very nice with these on the car. Unfortunately I can't seem to find them anywhere now, except at 1010 tires or something like that and they want almost 90 a tire. Should have bought an extra set when I had the chance.

Today I finally broke down and ordered another set of Conti ch95's. On special for 52 a tire at Tirerack and shipping is about 34 for all four to my door. Add about 10 bucks a tire to mount and spin balance em at the local BJ's and I'm done. I did look at a Kumho hp712 and a Sumitomo srixon4 that were 60 and 63 a tire respectively, but the Kumho didn't have any rating data and the Sumitomo did not have the greatest ratings either. The conti's ratings were based on about 7 million miles and the others at about a 10th of that. So I went with one I knew. Probably be replacing these in about a year or so...