I have a 2003 subaru baja with 17,000 miles on the odometer. this car came factory equipped with bridgestone potenza re92 high performance all season tires, size 225/60/r16. these tires are positively hazardous on snow and ice: i have twice in the past six weeks lost control of my vehicle on snowy, flat, straight roads, causing a total of $5,000 of damage to my car. the loss of control is unpredictable and sudden, as if a giant hand pick the car up and tossed it off the road. while researching snow tires yesterday, i found numerous warnings on web sites from consumers (tirerack.com, 1010tires.com, nhtsa.dot.gov) about the dangers of driving on wet/snowy/icy pavement with bridgestone potenza tires. these tires are exposing unwary consumers to accidents, injury and worse. i feel resentful to bridgestone for making such awful tires, also to subaru corporation for installing them on a car which is advertised as a very safe vehicle to drive in winter weather and to my local dealer who sold me a vehicle with such dangerous tires. *jb