personally i love soft compound tyres, i feel they give the most grip even if they do ware very quickly! profile really is up to what you want, i find 195's are fine for my little GT, i know a few people use 205's for the extra surface area, but they tend to catch on the inner arch of the ep82. i've tried many'a brand of tyre, best ones i've used for fast road are Toyo and Goodyear. yoko's are okay for few hundred miles, then for some reason they just don't grip like they used too kumho seem like a bit of a dark horse, not had a set my self but have driven a 106 GTi with a set and i liked them. and i'll never touch a set of pirelli tyres again. they are truely shocking and scary in dry & wet top choices i've used are, toyo proxies (i like the S but the R's just as good, espesh in the wet) Goodyear eagles F1's (as i'm sure most people would also recommend)