Vehicle tire and anti-skid stud

A vehicle tire, comprising:

• a tread which is intended for a rolling contact against a foundation,
• said tread being formed with a tread pattern which comprises circumferential and transverse grooves for removing water from a contact patch between the foundation and the tire;
• anti-skid studs mounted in the tread, each anti-skid stud comprising a stud body and a metal pin secured to the stud body,
• wherein a first end of the metal pin, which is intended to impinge against the foundation, has an inclined surface with respect to a longitudinal axis of the metal pin, whereby the inclined surface of the first end of the metal pin acts on the foundation, in an axial direction of the metal pin, to a varying depth and said inclined surface being placed relative to a rotating direction of the tire in such an orientation that, as the tire is rolling freely forward, a leading edge of the inclined surface of the metal pin to impinge first on the foundation is lower than a trailing edge of the inclined surface of the metal pin, and
• wherein the metal pin has a cross-section which is selected from a group consisting of oval, square, rectangle, lozenge, parallelogram, 5-gon, 6-gon, 7-gon, 8-gon, and star-shaped, and
• the vehicle tire further comprises anti-skid studs without an inclined surface at an end intended to impinge against the foundation.