Tires NITTO or Nokia

Wife now has Hakki 8 that she ran last year. no complaints, very aggressive studs

But the Nitto SN-2 has been long wearing so far, 2 seasons and still plenty of life to go.

My suggestion is that the R2 is the best when it comes to not becoming really noisy after a few years (the Nordmans on my Jetta are pretty noisy). I have R2's on the Alltrack and had them on the Eurovan (it now has the Rotiiva AT's on it and those thing are the best Nokians I've ever had for all year use). So, skiing up in VT and driving through big snowstorms and ice, the R2 works just fine.

Nokian's are essentially the best you can buy. If it's anything related to winter driving, the Finns know how to do it.

I'm running Nokian WRA3 on my Fiesta ST during cold periods. They've got me through a few years of deepest, snowy Bavarian winters.

Been absolutely great, no complaints about them.

I have the hakkapeliitta tires for winter on my CTS-v's, best damn winter tires you can get.

I went with Nokian Entyre 2.0. They handle really great, balanced out with no vibrations, and are quite quiet. If you get stuck driving in the rain these tires handle great in wet conditions as well. I've had them on for 40'000 and I'm still at about 70%. Good tire for lots of miles.

I am very impressed with the traction on Ice and Snow its amazing.

I just want to add my 0.02$ on this, I recently bought my first Nokian tires every to put on our new Explorer and I can honestly say in the 3000km's we've driven in the last month that they are hands down the best winter tires I've ever experienced. Time will tell how much performance will be lost as they wear down and how long they will last but to date, color me very impressed. Mine are studded and the ice performance is outstanding fwiw.

Wrote my car off into an enbankment on NT05's in the rain while driving normally.