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There really isn't much you can do here. You aren't going to get that level of performance out of any tire that will be acceptable in cooler temperatures. Either switch to your winter tires and change over to "casual driving mode" until spring, or pick up a third set of tires to fill the gap... but there is no magic tire that's going to get your Cup 2 levels of performance in that temperature range. If you don't want to go full winter mode, get something like a Michelin Pilot All Season 4 for the in-between period.
Also, you're lumping summer tires in with the "regular, boring, econo, jack-of-all-trades, master of none" group, but I don't think that's really fair. On public roads, the difference between something like your Cup 2 and a Pilot Sport 4S (or even a slightly lesser summer) really isn't going to be THAT different in the dry. On a track, where you can go 10/10ths, sure, but on public roads, going 10/10ths is silly, and you're acting like the difference between the Cup 2, and a normal summer tire is going to be just as big as the difference between a summer tire and a junky all-season, which just isn't the case. I think the scale you're using to compare categories is skewed.
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