I’ll have a look, but it seems that the OEM tires that my car came with(also Dunlop in the approx NT$5000 price point) are reasonbly priced for their size, so I’m not complaining. That doesn’t mean that I look forward to shelling out that amount though.
Haha, in a past life, I was quite a car enthusiast. Well, I still am, but it’s a lot more difficult in Taiwan as your car and parts buying dollar will only go about 1/2 as far is it would in my home country. The lack of affordable enthusiast oriented cars, the lack of racetracks, the city traffic, and speed cameras everywhere put my automotive hobby on hold while I’m here.
As for what brand of tires are best, that depends on a number of factors. The first thing I would take into account is if your car came from the factory with tires specifically designed for your car. If so, I would just go with the tires that your car came with. This group is generally just a handful of sports or luxury cars, so it doesn’t apply to most people.
As MaPoDoFu said, it all depends on what you plan to use the tires for that will determine which brand/model is best for you. One brand may have a model that is better for one application while another might have a model that is better suited to another application. Judging from your tire size, however, I’m guessing it’s for a compact car that you drive from point A to point B, and factors such as tire wear and wet weather performance are more important than say, cornering ability or speed rating.
If just from point A to point B, I think pretty much any all-season radial will be fine, and the determining factor will probably be the treadwear rating and price, although these tires usually last long enough (when properly cared for) to only require changing them once, or maybe twice during the lifetime of your car. You can get really good deals on point A to point B tires by just going with a local brand like NanKang or something similar.
That said, my personal preference for brands on your list goes in this order, with the disclaimer being that when selecting tires, I’m biased towards high performance dry-weather tires (expensive, amazing dry weather cornering, poor wet weather performance, don’t last very long):
Bridgestone, Dunlop, Michelin, Goodyear, Toyo, Firestone.
Yokohama I think deserves some mention. I was very happy with the ones I used to run on my last car, but the disclaimer is that they were specially designed with that make/model of car in mind, to the point that they were corner specific. The other model Yokohama tires I used for my other cars were kind of noisy, but they were cheap (relatively speaking) and performed well.