I had a bad experience with the Sport A2's, and I've seen a lot of negative posts on various forums about them. Mine were great until they had about 15k imles on them, and then they got *extremely* noisy, and at least one was out of round - I've never been so glad to get a set of tires off my car in my life.
They were my first and last experience with "high performance" tires - you pay more for them, they give 1/3 to 1/2 the tread life of good tires, they are more prone to developing problems, and, short of them spontaneoulsy self destructing, the manufacturers absolutely do not stand behind any warranty (ask the tire shops - they will tell you)
*because* they are "performance" tires.Different people have different priorities, but for me, a good touring tire is the way to go. I went with Cooper Lifeliner Touring SLE's -
620/A/B, slightly cheaper than the A2's, and just as good for hydroplane resistance (both are excellent in that category).Bill Putney (to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with "x")