AUTOMOTIVE
ICE ACADEMY
SIDEWAYS IN SWEDEN
Join our Automotive Editor, Benjamin Dubois as he heads to Arjeplog, Sweden, to learn how to drive on the ice.
Northern lights, opposite lock and an F-Type SVR - this trip had it all!
With the worst of the winter having passed we are on
the straight and narrow to warmer days - ungritted
roads and most importantly an end to the vitamin D
deficiency the media love to obsess over.
During the winter period many of us may have
been driving in road conditions that are just not our
forte, which is unlike our fellow Europeans in colder
climates who happen to have a whole manoeuvre
named after their ability to chuck a car sideways into
a corner! Rumour has it that the first Vikings even
used the ‘Scandinavian Flick’ in their longships when
first landing on the beaches of Britain!
The UK does lots of things very well: fish and chips,
standing in orderly queues and even the Olympics
were a success. One thing we are not so good at is
winter.
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The Art of Luxury
Issue 37 2019