I've had BFG A/T's and liked them, but I've also had the Toyo Open Country A/T's and I liked those too. The Toyo's were much better in the snow and on the ice than the BFG's. I also found the Toyo's awesome on the wet pavement. After driving with them on you forget what hydroplaning feels like. I'm going to Discount Tire in Bellingham, WA this saturday to get a new set of tires. I've decided to go with a P265/70 R17. I'm not too sure which tire I will go with but I've looked online at the Consumer Reports all terrain tire ratings and that list goes a little something like this.
1.Pirelli Scorpion ATR ----79 points
2.Yokohama Geolandar AT - S ----73points
3.Bridgestone Dueler Revo AT ----71 points
4.Michelin LTX AT2 ----68 points
5.Toyo Open Country AT S ----68 points
According to their point scoring system, all of these tires are rated "VERY GOOD" and two of them, the Pirelli and the Bridgestone are on their "RECOMMENDED" . Consumer Reports have been pretty bang on with everything I've bought. They test all sorts of products in an unbiased and UNSPONSORED fashion. Translation: Manufacturers don't pay them to test their products.
Here is a link to that page, hopefully you guys can get on it as it is a subscription based website:
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/cars ... erview.htm
The tires I'll be looking at this saturday will be the Yokohama Geolandar, Toyo Open Country AT S and the Nitto Terra Grappler AT(which I think is a Toyo sister tire)
Good luck with the tire shopping and I'll let you know what I got.
Cheers,
