Miata Mailing List: March 1994, Message #182
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   From: buck@claude.ma30.bull.com (Kenneth J. Buck)
Subject: tires (was: The Weight)
   Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 08:09:30 -0500

> From: "Kate W. Hughes 607/974-3861" 
> Subject: The weight
> 
>     The wicked good snow tires referred to by Click & Clack are, I believe, 
>     Hakapellittas, which are the _kind_ of tire made by this norwegian 
>     company (like "Mud-T/A" is to BFG).  We've got a set of those, studded, 
>     on an Opel GT which is used in Winter Rallies.  An Opel Gt, as anyone 
>     can tell you, is worse in the snow than a Miata.  With the Haka's on 
>     it, it'll go anywhere.  I think they go for about $100 each, but 
>     everyone I know who drives very fast in the snow swears by them, even 
>     those who do not put studs in them.

for the record, they go for about $75 each in Miata sizes (unstudded),
and i too swear by them.  fortunately, except in Finland, the need
for these is about to disappear until around next December (YAY!!).
time to start talking about summer tires instead!

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