[Fat Charlie]

They do everything a tire should: they're round, they're black, they fit. My fronts were almost bald and the rears were getting there, so even Wal Mart tires would feel better!

How are they objectively? I don't know. I had Fuel Maxes on my Subaru and loved them so I got them for the minivan when the time came. They didn't last. I replaced them with Ascends and they're wonderful, so once the Fit needed tires it got Ascends.

I wasn't looking for an improvement in mileage. I was just looking for good, economical tires that will last a long time- and I limited my searching to what the manufacturers stated was their LRR models. Kind of like when I bought the car I limited my searching to manual transmissions. Maybe I missed out on a great car that way. I don't care. Unless you're going to do serious academic testing you're never going to get any real apples to apples data, so we're stuck with marketing materials.

All things being equal, I'll go with longer treadlife rating as an indicator that it doesn't resist rolling all that much- and looking at the Ascends on my wife's minivan and the Dunlops I just took off, I can tell you that those particular treadlife ratings are accurate!

Less than 40k miles out of a tire that costs $170 more for a set? No thank you.