You guys are totally getting where I am stuck. I used to run Kumho Ecsta MXs on my B5 all summer, for track and street, and below 50°F was pretty sketchy. They had to be off the car by 45°F or it wasn't going anywhere. Track performance was excellent and warm dry street performance was excellent. I could tell you exactly how much tread I had left based on rain performance.
I'm not sure I want to deal with that every day again, but I hate hate hate giving up track day performance. Greasy tyres are the worst. However, there is also the issue that I am still learning to drive this car. I can outdrive the old B5 all day, but I'm not there with this car yet, so I'm not sure I need balls-out tyres. Just very good tyres. I have another year of work before I will be really pushing this car. I'd like to grow the car with me, rather than going to a crazy setup right away.
The whole 200TWR thing is all about legal for various racing series. I think LeMons is at 190 now, they were at 220 for a long time. That led to a lot of 220-rated tyres. So there should be tons of pretty sticky 200-rated tyres now that are treading the line of being legal for various series and barely lasting 5K miles. The MXs were 220, and that was a stretch - I could get a whopping 10K and 4 track days out of a set, which meant I was tossing a new set on every spring. Fortunately, they were cheap.
