Despite the fact that all of the requirements for the other attributes have been met, I will no longer accept this type of rubber. As a point of reference, the car before this one had a studded Cordiant SnoMax. In comparison to Japanese, rubber is loud and tends to float at speeds more than 70 kilometers per hour. However, over the two winters that followed, not a single spike came loose (even when driving on asphalt). I was able to sell it to someone as a little used item, making the transaction profitable. Please do not regard anything I say here as an endorsement of Cordiant. I hope that everyone is successful in locating good tires.