It depends on what you are going to do with the car. If you want to do any real performance driving get the Michelin Pilot Sport 2 tires. They even do pretty well in wet weather. If you are going to be driving in bad weather get the Conti AS tires.

As for wear I have over 11k on my Michelins and even autocrossing on an average of 2 weekends a month my tires are in very good shape and I'm pretty sure that I will get around 25 - 30k out of them..... Not too bad IMO.