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Buy a set of four steel wheels and fit winter tyres to them.
Swap your existing wheels and tyres to the winters in November, and back again in April.
Winter tyres will give you significantly better grip when it is cold (below 7 degrees c), not just when there is ice and snow on the ground, although the difference in more extreme conditions is huge. For this reason, we all should be using them, since in winter months, very often your morning drive to work is at these low tempuratures.
The expense, in fact, is small. It is merely the cost of a set of steel wheels. They are cheap, as others have said. Since you use each set of tyres for only half of the year, they last longer, much as your shoes do if you have more than one pair and rotate use.
Replacing your existing tyres with 'all season' tyres is an inferior option to a set of winters and summers, but better than just running summers, since they are a better fit for our climate.
I run a Yaris on two sets of wheels: summers are Continental Premium Contact 5, winters are Goodyear Ultragrip 8. I am very satisfied with both sets and recommend them to you.
I have used Nokian winter tyres before and found them to be very good also.
Cheap tyres are best avoided.
Do not, under any circumstances, mix summer and winter tyres on your car at the same time.
Your Yaris, by the way, is front wheel drive.
Good luck!
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