Yeah, $300 is about $100 too little for a set of dedicated snow tires. I've heard good things about the HTR+'s as an all-season tire, and I had a set of 'em in near-bald condition on my SVX when I bought it, but I only drove on those for a few weeks before getting some Wintersport M3's, and that was only in the dry, so I can't really review 'em for their winter performance. But for a bald tire in the dry, they worked pretty well.