The manufacturer puts a lot of testing into their tires to aid handling, noise, and all around driveability. SUV tires are always a compromise between handling, traction, and noise, for the best of all three. I do a lot of off road, some snow, and mud and it's hard to beat the Goodyear MT/Rs I've had on two vehicles, but the noise (very loud) and fast wear will drive you nuts. I ran through two sets of the Goodyear Wrangler AT/S's on my prvious SUV and found them to be a tire I could live with on road and off road, with incredible snow traction, but definitely louder than OEM. Tirerack.com has all kinds of good info on tires with ratings on traction and noise and owner comments. Also, al ot of your superior offroad tires have low speed ratings and high noise ratings.
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