I give tires some pretty rough use. I live in Montana where in the winter it regularly gets -35 degrees F and dumps huge accumulations of snow and ice. Then in the summer it gets over 100 degrees at times and 90-95 is common. Choosing a tire that will work for all my situations is tough. I do a fair bit of off road driving, gravel and dirt road driving, and a lot of highway driving in the summer. I had a pair of Toyo open road A/T that gave me great on road performance and I got 75,000 miles out of, but they weren't great in the Winter at all. I bought Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires for the winter and found them to be good but wore terribly even when taking them off in May, when MT can already have had some hot days.
Having had fabulous luck with Blizzaks on my Subaru, getting close to 50,000 miles of all season use each on two sets of WMR and WR's, with ice and snow performance very close to equivalent to a dedicated soft compound snow tire, I decided it was time to try the Nokian tire on my Toyota 4runner. So far they have been great in snow storms, I feel they are as good as my Blizzaks were or at least close, not quite as sticky on ice but better in deeper snow. Furthermore they look like they will give me at least 50-75,000 miles of use... Now that is a compromise I can live with. This is a great tire. They are good off road too! AND MADE IN USA!