Winter tyres and ‘real’ winter tyres: differences between North and Central European types

Here’s a very interesting video in which Nokian compares his winter tyres for North and Central European conditions:http://www.youtube.com/watch?… It’s interesting that mE is almost warned against driving in Scandinavia with these ‘bad’ winter tyres for Central Europe, because they are designed differently and are made for other speeds and weather conditions. Words such as ‘snow king’ are relativizing very quickly and also snow and ice ratings for m ADAC and other tests at least appear in a different light for me. Especially in the brake test there are considerable differences…