Depending on where and how you drive. What you're looking at and what price you want to pay for it, there are so many tires on the market. A tire choosen by someone else could be or not what you realy want or need. There is one good place known:
www.tirerack.com where you can select several brands with caracteristics.
Read on tire side: Treadwear number, temperature and traction rate.
More on these links.
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/testing/UTQG/
http://www.jags.org/TechInfo/2001/05...gandrating.htm