Daily driver tires for ND Miata? Firehawk 500s? Pilot Sport A/S? Pilot Sports?

Snrub said:

They also have a nice comparison of all season UHP vs. UHP vs "max" vs "extreme" tires categories: https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/testDisplay.jsp?ttid=333

Good find!

I had not seen that one before.  Super useful.

I'm not really sure why people say the ECS wear really well.  Wear is acceptable, but certainly not great in my mind, at least when used on a heavy car.  On the E38 (admittedly a 4100 lb car) with 255/45R18 and 275/40R18s under it, I got just over 14k out of the first set of rears, just under 21k out of the fronts.  The second set has worn better, but I'm not sure if it's the tires, my driving, or alignment tweaks I've done over time.  The rears are close to done with 20k on them now, the fronts are at a bit over 13k and still have plenty of life left (but they'll end up getting replaced together due to the need to switch tires). 

For comparison, a set of Blizzak WS-80s (235/50R18) on the same car took somewhere around 18k to start showing the end of the gummy multicell compound and I replaced them just shy of 21k.