Global warming is hitting Northern Sweden hard, although you wouldn’t think it to look at these photos.
I’ve just been to Avidsjaur with tyre-maker Continental, which, like numerous other vehicle companies, has a couple of winter test tracks up there. The tracks are normally open for five months of the year (November through to the end of March) – but this has been the warmest winter sense records began and the tracks look set to close early. While I was there the temperature was just a couple of degrees below zero – whereas it would normally have been about -25 degrees.
Whilst my colleagues were tucking into their reindeer steaks I went for a walk around the test track and found these trucks hiding in the snow. The first one appears to be a Volvo N88, the second is presumably another Volvo – but what’s the third one? From this angle it looks like one of those Forward Control Jeeps – but is too big. Can anyone tell us what it is?