You can soon live out your James Bond fantasies with retractable stud winter tires

In 1987's The Living Daylights, James Bond presses a dashboard button to activate retractable tyre studs, giving the Aston Martin V8 Vantage he's driving much traction connected a frozen lake. That tyre exertion is nary longer constricted to the movies. Later this year, Finnish tyre marque Nokian is readying to motorboat a caller snowfall tyre with studs that automatically deploy erstwhile temperatures drop. The Hakkapeliitta 01 tyre volition debut successful North American and Europe successful a assortment of sizes, with a absorption connected Nordic countries.

Studded tires are an effectual mode to amended grip and handling erstwhile driving successful slippery conditions caused by crystal oregon snow. But erstwhile roads a …

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