ive got toyo proxies on my mr2 . ive done 10,000 miles on them and they are done !!! although they had lots of grip and v good in the wet , they were bloody noisey on the road !! anyhow i dont want the same again , i want something thats gonna last longer than 1 year or 10,000 miles. what tyres are you guys using or recomend. my daddy told me to get michelins but they cost more than my car is worth ! (he's got michelins on his mini bus and they have done 140,000 miles) any ideas people ?

Falken FK452's seem to be pretty good, especially for the price.

I have the 451's on the Supra, they are alright. But people say the 452 is a massive improvement over the 451's.

I am going to go with a set of 452's on the rear in the next few months. I think they are about £220 for a set of rears for mine.

Eagle F1s here Marc, mine have done 10k now and still got a good few mm before the tread indicator

it gets driven hard enough

i must say although the toyos are worn now , they are really good all round tyres and i would recomend them to people who can afford what they want ! i just thought they wore far to quickly in a car not produceing large amounts of bhp !!!! over the years ive tried out many tyres (helps having a m8 who own a tyre company) and generaly ive found the popular tyres that come with good reviews etc never last long , driven hard or not . i used to run a golf on yokohama's and get around 8000 miles out of them . i had some dunlop sp sports once ! they come with a reasonable rating but i actually thought they was better in the wet than the dry !!! but they suffered alot of road noise and i ended up hateing them. as stuymac said taxi tyres are very very hard ! but there is no comparison to the types of tyres we use on sports cars at all.( my old man was taking the piss about how many miles his tyres had done compared to mine) soft tyres give you lots of grip but wear quickly. harder tyres give less grip but wear less , so ive gone for something inbetween . ive had em before and considering what my car is and how much power it has ive gone for kumho's ku 31 .

i find yoko parada spec 2's a good compromise, they are a reasonable price and last quite well

i was on the motorway in the rain at weekend these kumho's make the back end of my car look like a jet ski ... quite alot less road noise also than the toyo's .

i can belive it . i am convinced these kumhos are better than the toyo's, my car turns in quicker , and feels alot more stable in the wet ..