Originally Posted By: pandus13
-Nokian eNTYRE All-Season Radial Tire
-Cooper CS5 Ultra Touring Radial Tire
How are them?
(Is Nokian capable of mild winter driving?)
In the snow, I'd trust a Nokian tire over its competition from any other brand. The only catch is that the better a tire is in snow, the worse it is in almost all other conditions (i.e. the VAST majority of your miles).
I'm assuming you live in a reasonably well-plowed area and can afford to stay home on the rare days when there's deep snow or ice on the road. On that assumption, the best you can do is to focus on grip and safety in dry, wet, cold, and lightly snowy conditions. If you're going to sacrifice anything, it should be deep snow performance; it comes with the biggest trade-offs in other areas, and isn't relevant except in conditions that rarely come up and can usually be avoided.
If that assumption is wrong in any way, and you absolutely cannot figure out how to store a second set of wheels for winter, then get the Nokian WRG3. I don't think anything on the US market will be better.
Cooper is fine. I just don't see a reason to choose it when there are other options that are so much better.