"For millions of peace of mind and security. Your time cutting-edge technology. This year marks 80 years since the world's first winter tire was born in the northern frost and blizzards. The revolutionary invention has changed the motorist winter time as a standard option. Winter roads today rullaakin more than 700 million winter tires. The new millennium winter tires resemble more little original predecessors.

Driving the early stages of the winter roads were often very narrow, and the plow-making. Motorists liukastelivat snowy roads with the same tires, which are used throughout the summer, and the awkward position of becoming the driver was able to install a mobile snow chains are going to facilitate. Nokian Tyres predecessor of the Finnish Gummitehdas Corporation took up the challenge, and in 1934 gave the market the world's first winter tire. The weather tire designed for lorries and two years later, in 1936 passenger car drivers received the winner's own snow-covered roads, or Snow Hakkapeliitta.

Winter tire Inventing eased the lives of the trucks and cars were able to proceed up to the thick snow, without the hassle of snow chains. Planned lorries weather tire's surface was rough surface pattern, which tackled the snow track way. The tire traction was also improved by a loose texture which easily cleared the snow. The weather tire pattern was considered so good that it remained unchanged in the last twenty years. Snow Hakkapeliitta again dominated the twists and turns, as well as the strong transverse grooves allow that the suction cups, which are rejected by slipping on an icy road. "

The original version of this article appears in  Nokian Tyres' expert blog Nokian Tyres  posted on 10/17/2014.