With the almost legendary Direction-Grip, the first directional winter specialist, this development continued in 1988 – only to set another highlight just one year later with the Top-Grip SLG. This “super lamella gripper” quickly became the most popular and thus best-selling winter tyre in the Alpine republic.
Semperit also set winter tyre standards in the 90s. In 1995, for example, the newly introduced Direction-Grip immediately took first place in the ADAC/ÖAMTC/TCS test. The product range was once again “completely renewed” in 2008 with the Master-Grip, which was followed in 2014 by its successor, Master-Grip 2.
Like the “Direction-Grip” or its ancestor “Golitah”, however, the “Speed-Grip” product series, introduced in 2006, is seen as a milestone in the history of the traditional tyre brand with Austrian roots. The Speed-Grip 2, which was introduced in 2011, performed excellently in tyre tests for many years, with the successor Speed-Grip 3 launched in 2017 being technically improved once again.
Today, Semperit has another very powerful winter tyre in production, the new Speed-Grip 5.