+35.2%
Switzerland's 4WD car sales share last year

That compares with an already sky-high 35.2 per cent during the same period last year and 25.8 per cent just five years earlier. 

To put this in perspective, in West Europe’s wider car sales scene, 4WD passenger cars captured a record 12 per cent of last year’s new car market, following four successive years of continuous unbroken growth. 

AID forecasters predict that yet another new 4WD car sales record will be set this year.

If there is one certainty year after year, it is the realisation that autumn is followed by winter. 

The consequence is that during these winter months, and often with next to no prior warning from meteorologists, motorists ready to leave for the daily morning drive to work, school run or shopping trip, are often confronted unexpectedly by ice and snow covered roads...more