Winter testing: Pushing a Volvo EX30 to the limit in Swedish Lapland

Cold-weather test cars are usually pre-production models
Untold mileage, inhospitable temperatures, extreme manoeuvres - we join Volvo as its cars fight their toughest tests
Watching Niclas Lindberg, an ice-driving specialist, fluently testing adhesion in a Volvo EX30 is enough to mesmerise even an advanced motorist, let alone this humble writer on his first trip to Lulea, about 750 miles north of Gothenburg in Swedish Lapland.
This is where Volvo has been testing, close to the Arctic Circle, si