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Everyone should get in the habit of treating ALL FOUR tires as integral to keeping balance and handling, as well as upper limit characters of the car.
Regardless of FR, FF, AWD, all cars have and need ALL FOUR tires to perform according to the designed balance.
Just because it is a RWD car, does not mean tires should only be upgraded to the rear, because all of the tires do the more important role of STOPPING and TURNING a car.
More often than not, upgrading only ONE end of a car is MORE DANGEROUS than not doing it at all, since the behaviors of the car will change drastically. If you are going for performance or safety, which is synonymous in my head, and should be for anyone, to replace all four tires with appropriate type for ideal levels of safety and handling.
I may be from Southern California, but I did spend 4years in Spokane, Washington and lots of time in other places where winter driving, and racing, was something of a life for me. And I can really attest that improper mix of tires have really dire effects on handling well beyond that of what can be cancelled or tuned by any form of suspension or driver abilities.
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