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If you're new to the sport, don't switch to good rubber until you've got solid fundamentals.
Grippy tires will mask your mistakes, and even encourage bad habits to form because it "feels" fast. Ask me about the time my automatic Celica GT on all seasons beat a G35 on R comps by a second - he switched too early and developed bad habits. It set his driving progress back over a year.
If you're just out to have fun, sure - buy any tire you want. If you want to get good at the sport and pursue this semi-competitively, run those Prius tires to their death.
I had a Nationals practice day last weekend that I ran on dead Rivals - I still do this to myself to reinforce the fundamentals. Jeff Stuart (who will probably contend for the overall CS win this year) ran on bald RS-3s so I'm not alone in this.
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