Information: peter.ojerskog@swedenoffroad.com
Sweden Offroad Tour 2010 divides itself!
15th Sweden Offroad Tour goes July 3-18 2010 and offers a dramatic renewal.
For the first time since the start in 1995 Sweden Offroad Tour divides itself in Ludvika. One branch continues as usual to Kiruna in the north and the other branch turns south and down along the west coast.
The reason is that many participants, including foreigners, simply think it’s to long drive to the midnight sun. That’s why we test a shorter alternative, a loop around the southern half of Sweden.
New offroad areas are Tingsryd, Norrköping and Dals-Ed. Revived areas are Borås and Värnamo.
Welcome to take part in Sweden’s and one of the world’s greatest and most fun offroad adventures. Last year 412 4x4 cars and ATVs took part.
Land Rover Enthusiast writes about SOT
British offroad magazine Land Rover Enthusiast, http://www.landroverenthusiast.com , has in it’s January issue a 3 pages feature in colour on last year’s Sweden Offroad Tour!
English Ventures Search & Rescue took part for the third time in their red/yellow Land Rover Defenders in Sweden’s greatest offroad adventure. Captain “Tiffy”, 76 years(!), wrote the story and took photos.
The pictures are mainly from Kristianstad, Karlskrona and Söderköping with even a photo of tour leader Peter Öjerskog in his blue/yellow SOT-T-shirt and cap!
The text is very positive against SOT and Sweden. Captain Tiffy writes that the blonde Swedish maidens were attracted to the young british cadets morning and evening reveille!
The 3 pages feature in Land Rover Enthusiast means fine international publicity for Sweden’s longest 4x4 adventure.
15th Sweden Offroad Tour goes July 3-18 2010. For the first time the tour divides itself in Ludvika. With the traditional northern branch going north to Kiruna and the midnight sun, and the new western branch turns south along the west coast.
SOT 2009 in Malaysian 4x4 Magazine
14th Sweden Offroad Tour 2009 will be published in Malaysian 4x4 Magazine, http://www.4x4magazine.com.my
But already now you can see the four pages feature in colour on our link: SOT 2009 Malaysian feature.
4x4 Magazine is sold in Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei and Singapore and is one of the largest 4x4 magazines in South-East Asea.
Partners: ATV-QUAD, Jeep, Goodyear, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, LNTV , Motor-Life, SBF, KAKoch Försvaret
14th Sweden Offroad Tour 4-19.7 2009
14th Sweden Offroad Tour goes July 4-19 2009. As usual we have 15 offroad areas from Kristianstad in the south to Kiruna in the north. We offer one new offroad area this year: Storskogen outside Oskarshamn with its unique granite landscape. Areas we have not driven in a couple of years are SOT Rosersberg-Stockholm N and SOT Koskullskulle-Gällivare.
With an average of 50 vehicles per offroad day SOT last year attracted totally 400 4x4 cars and ATVs from 12 countries, which makes SOT one of the biggest 4x4 adventures in he world.
The Swedish Crown (krona) has a low rate compared to Euro and US Dollar which make Sweden a bargain nowadays.
Info: +46 (0)708-52 99 13, www.swedenoffroad.com
4.7 SOT Vånga-Kristianstad
5.7 SOT Paradiset-Karlshamn
6.7 SOT-Boasjö-Karlskrona
7.7 SOT Ökna-Vetlanda
8.7 SOT Storskogen-Oskarshamn
9.7 SOT Olerum-Söderköping
10.7 SOT Sandlycke-Strängnäs
11.7 SOT Ekeby-Stockholm S
12.7 SOT Rosersberg-Stockholm N
13.7 SOT Björnhyttan-Ludvika
14.7 SOT Aspnäsbanan-Säter
15.7 SOT Vemvallen-Sveg
16.7 SOT Döviken-Hammarstrand
18.7 SOT Koskullskulle-Gällivare
19.7 SOT Mystery Tour-KirunaPartners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, KAK och Försvaret
Reasons for SWEDEN OFFROAD TOUR 2009
14th Sweden Offroad Tour goes 4-19.7 2009. All information on http://www.swedenoffroad.com . Here are some reasons why you ought to participate:
* SOT is Sweden’s and one of the world’s greatest 4x4 adventures. Last year, with an average of 50 vehicles per day, totally 400 4x4 cars and ATVs took part.
* SOT is Sweden’s most international offroad adventure. About a dozen different nationalities usually take part.
* SOT gives you maximum freedom. You can go on and off (and on again!) the tour whenever you want. No pre-registration, registration and payment on offroad site 9-10 am.
* SOT offers 15 offroad days/areas during the 3000 kilometres from southern to northern Sweden. New offroad area this year is Storskogen outside Oskarshamn, with its unique granite landskapce..
* SOT offroad areas this year are: Kristianstad, Karlshamn, Karlskrona, Vetlanda, Oskarshamn, Söderköping, Strängnäs, Stockholm S, Stockholm N , Ludvika, Säter, Sveg, Hammarstrand, Gällivare , Kiruna.
* SOT goes through all of Sweden and offers all kinds of terrain: forest trails, sand slopes, stones and rocks, granite slabs, mud holes, swamps and even a treeless mountain.
* SOT suits everyone. From the new beginner in his day-by-day car to the experienced offroad driver in her special equipped vehicle.
* SOT fee is 300 SEK/35 Euro per vehicle and offroad day, the same price since the start in 1995! Other international 4x4 adventures often cost 1000 SEK/110 Euro per PERSON and offroad day.
* SOT sells the classic blue/yellow Sweden Offroad Tour-T-shirt in all sizes for 150 SEK/20 Euro. Plus the blue/yellow SOT-cap for 100 SEK/15 Euro.
* SOT has every day a sponsor lottery giving out T-shirts, caps, magazines, keyrings, etcetera. Everyone will win something everyday!
* SOT sometimes change the afternoon offroad safari for a local tourist tour. Last year we swam in a 100 meter deep silver quarry filled with turqoise blue water!
* SOT automatically gives you new friends if you join for a couple of days. If you join for more than a week you will get friends for life!
* SOT is documented on http://www.swedenoffroad.com with hundreds of photos. Features are also published in Swedish magazines Traktor Power and ATV-QUAD.
* SOT gives you what you love best: offroading. And the fun goes on day after day after day. And you don’t get tired of it because every day there are new terrain, new camping, new vehicles and new people.
* SOT gives you the vacation of your life! Enjoy Swedish summer, exciting offroad driving, cozy camping life, cool swims, new friends and the midnight sun.
WELCOME!Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, KAK och Försvaret
SOT 2009 advertises in five motor magazines
14th Sweden Offroad Tour 4-19.7 2009 advertises in five motor magazines in Sweden: http://www.4wheeldrive.se , http://www.atv-quad.se , http://www.automotorsport.se , http://www.traktorpower.se and http://www.guiderna.com .
A full page colour ad with the map/program and smaller blue/yellow SOT-logotype ads are published in the paper issues of the magazines, reaching over a quarter of a million readers all over the Nordic countries. Plus the publicity on http://www.swedenoffroad.com with half a million visits every year!Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, KAK och Försvaret
SOT Strängnäs and SOT Stockholm N change dates
We are making an improvement for 14th Sweden Offroad Tour 4-19.7 2009:
The dates for SOT Sandlycke and SOT Rosersberg-Stockholm N change dates with each other.
SOT Sandlycke now goes Friday July 10 and SOT Rosersberg-Stockholm N Sunday July 12.
Please correct in your agenda and tell your offroad friends.
The reason for the change is that the club Rosersberg 4WD until now had monopoly for driving on Sundays at Rosersberg. But the club has ended its contract from March 31. Therefore SOT can now drive in Rosersberg on Sunday July 12.
Sweden Offroad Tour gets a more logical direction to the north with SOT Sandlycke-Strängnäs on Friday July 10, SOT Ekeby-Stockholm S on Saturday July 11 and SOT Rosersberg-Stockholm N on Sunday July 12.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, KAK och Försvaret
1000 photos from Sweden Offroad Tour 2008
Last summers Sweden Offroad Tour attracted 400 vehicles from a dozen countries!
Now you can look at 1000 photos from the tour on the Swedish page Reportage (Features).
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, KAK och Försvaret
SWEDEN OFFROAD TOUR 2008:
Lördag 5.7 Vånga-Kristianstad
Söndag 6.7 Paradiset-Karlshamn
Måndag 7.7 Boasjö-Karlskrona
Tisdag 8.7 Ökna-Vetlanda
Onsdag 9.7 Olerum-Söderköping
Torsdag 10.7 Ekeby-Stockholm
Fredag 11.7 Sandlycke-Strängnäs
Lördag 12.7 Brändåsen-Kumla
Söndag 13.7 Björnhyttan-Ludvika
Måndag 14.7 Aspnäsbanan-Säter
Tisdag 15.7 Medskogssjön-Ockelbo
Onsdag 16.7 Vemvallen-Sveg
Torsdag 17.7 Döviken-Hammarstrand
Lördag 19.7 Marieberg-Kalix
Söndag 20.7 Mystery Tour-Kiruna
Partners: ATV-QUAD, Jeep, Dunlop , Warn , Rindab , auto motor & sport , Traktor Power , LNTV , Motor-Life, SBF , KAK och Försvaret
SWEDEN OFFROAD TOUR 5-20.7 2008
13th Sweden Offroad Tour goes 5-20.7 2008. All information on http://www.swedenoffroad.com . Here are som reasons why you ought to participate:
* SOT is Sweden’s and one of the world’s greatest 4x4 adventures. Last year, with an average of 50 vehicles per day, totally 400 4x4 cars and ATVs took part.
* SOT is Sweden’s most international offroad adventure. About a dozen different nationalities usually take part.
* SOT gives you maximum freedom. You can go on and off (and on again!) the tour whenever you want. No pre-registration, registration and payment on offroad site 9-10 am.
* SOT offers 15 offroad days/areas during the 3000 kilometres from southern to northern Sweden. New offroad area this year is Medskogssjön south of Ockelbo.
* SOT offroad areas this year are: Kristianstad, Karlshamn, Karlskrona, Vetlanda, Söderköping, Stockholm, Strängnäs, Kumla, Ludvika, Säter, Ockelbo, Sveg, Hammarstrand, Kalix , Kiruna.
* SOT goes through all of Sweden and offers all kinds of terrain: forrest trails, sand slopes, stones and rocks, granite slabs, mud holes, swamps and even a treeless mountain.
* SOT suits everyone. From the new beginner in his day-by-day car to the experienced offroad driver in her special equipped vehicle.
* SOT fee is 300 SEK/35 Euro per vehicle and offroad day, the same price since the start in 1995! Other international 4x4 adventures offen cost 1000 SEK/110 Euro per PERSON and offroad day.
* SOT sells the classic blue/yellow Sweden Offroad Tour-T-shirt in all sizes for 150 SEK/20 Euro. Also this year the blue/yellow SOT-cap for 100 SEK/15 Euro.
* SOT has every day a sponsor lottery giving out T-shirts, caps, magazines, keyrings, etcetera. Everyone will win something everyday!
* SOT sometimes change the afternoon offroad safari for a local tourist tour. Last year we swimmed in a 100 meter deep silver quarry filled with turqoise blue water!
* SOT automatically gives you new friends if you join for a couple of days. If you join for more than a week you will get friends for life!
* SOT is documented on http://www.swedenoffroad.com with houndreds of photos. Features are also published in Swedish magazines Traktor Power and ATV-QUAD.
* SOT gives you what you love best: offroading. And the fun goes on day after day after day. And you don’t get tired of it because every day there are new terrain, new camping, new vehicles and new people.
* SOT gives you the vacation of your life! Enjoy Swedish summer, exciting offroad driving, cozy camping life, cool swims, new friends and the midnight sun.
WELCOME!Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, KAK och Försvaret
Map for 13th Sweden Offroad Tour 2008-05-06
Finally we have published the program with map and route for 13 th Sweden Offroad Tour July 5-20 2008.
Normally we publish the map on December 1. But this year we applied also for military areas, but got only no…
As usual we offer 15 offroad areas from Kristianstad in the south to Kiruna in the north. New area this year is Medskogssjön south of Ockelbo.
Last year, with an average of 50 vehicles totally 400 4x4 cars and ATVs took part in SOT, which makes it Sweden's and one of the world's greatest offroad adventures.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, KAK och Försvaret
Sweden Offroad Tour 5-20.7 2008
13th Sweden Offroad Tour goes July 5-20 2008. As usual we have 15 offroad areas from Kristianstad in the south to Kiruna in the north. We offer one new offroad area this year: Medsskogssjön and its camping south of Ockelbo.
With an average of 50 vehicles per offroad day SOT last year attracted totally 400 4x4 vehicles from 12 countries, which makes SOT one of the biggest 4x4 adventures in he world. We hope for even more this summer because ATVs are also welcome.
The reason we are late with the program is because we also applied for military offroad areas . but got a NO everywhere…
Info: +46 (0)708-52 99 13, www.swedenoffroad.com
5.7 SOT Vånga-Kristianstad
6.7 SOT Paradiset-Karlshamn
7.7 SOT-Boasjö-Karlskrona
8.7 SOT Ökna-Vetlanda
9.7 SOT Olerum-Söderköping
10.7 SOT Ekeby-Stockholm
11.7 SOT Sandlycke-Strängnäs
12.7 SOT Brändåsen-Kumla
13.7 SOT Björnhyttan-Ludvika
14.7 SOT Aspnäsbanan-Säter
15.7 SOT Medskogssjön-Ockelbo
16.7 SOT Vemvallen-Sveg
17.7 SOT Döviken-Hammarstrand
19.7 SOT Marieberg-Kalix
20.7 SOT Mystery Tour-Kiruna
348 photos from Sweden Offroad Tour 2007!
12th Sweden Offroad Tour 7-22.7 2007 attracted 400 vehicles, 366 4x4 cars and 34 ATVs, which is a new record!
Now you can look at 348 photos from the tour on the Swedish page Reportage (Features). It will soon be translated to English.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, KAK och Försvaret
80 vehicles from 10 countries at the start of SOT!
12th Sweden Offroad Tour 7-22.7 2007 set a record on its first day in Vånga outside Kristianstad: totally 80 vehicles, 76 cars and 4 ATV, from 10 nations took part!
That's the best figures we had on the first day since SOT started in 1995. Even more amazing when you know it was raining almost all day, and it has been raining awfully much in southern Sweden the last week. People are even drowning in their cars on the road!
Ther where cars from: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, England, Germany, Holland, France, Austria, Poland and Hungary!
Englishman Michael Miles is taking part fort the 8th time and as usual he is driving ALL of SOT 2007!
The weather will be better. Already on Sunday the the rain will stop and the sun will shine.
Don't miss the fun!
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, KAK och Försvaret
Sunday 8.7 SOT Karlshamn moved to Ronneby!!!
Due to extreme rain we are forced to move Sunday 8.7 SOT Karlshamn to Ronneby!
We are driving on the offroad trails in Sjöarp, where SOT has been arranged before.
Sjöarp is located by the old main road (Gamla Riksvägen) between Bräkne-Hoby and Ronneby, 15 kilometres east of Karlshamn.
The camping is the same: Kolleviks Camping in Karlshamn. But there is also Järnaviks Camping south of Bräkne-Hoby.
Other SOT places are NOT interfered by rain.
More info from tour leader Peter Öjerskog, +46 (+)708-52 99 13.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, KAK och Försvaret
12th Sweden Offroad Tour 7-22.7 2007 is on its way! Don't miss the fun!
Tour leader Peter Öjerskog can only be reached by telephone +46 (0)708-52 99 13.
In August we will publish a 200 photos feature on SOT!
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, KAK och Försvaret
12th SOT 7-22.7 2007 goes through Laplands inland
12th Sweden Offroad Tour 7-22.7 2007 offers three new offroad areas:
Ludvika (Björnhyttan) Sunday 15.7
Sveg (Motor & Vildmarkscenter in Vemvallen) Tuesday 17.7 and
Hammarstrand (Zorb Center in Döviken) Wedensday 18.7.
That makes that SOT for the first time in many years goes through the wild inland of Lapland instead of the boring E 4 along thed coast.
We go back to 15 offroad days so the participants get a well deserved travelday on Thursday 19.7 between Hammarstrand and Kalix in Lapland.
We also welcome 4x4 ATV:s on the whole tour, in co-operation with Swedish magazine ATV-QUAD.
We will publish the map, route and program for Sweden Offroad Tour on Friday 1.12 on this site. But here are already dates and places:
12th SWEDEN OFFROAD TOUR 7-22.7 2007:
7.7 Kristianstad
8.7 Ronneby (NOT Karlshamn)
9.7 Karlskrona
10.7 Vetlanda
11.7 Söderköping
12.7 Kumla
13.7 Strängnäs
14.7 Stockholm
15.7 Ludvika
16.7 Säter
17.7 Sveg
18.7 Hammarstrand
20.7 Kalix
21.7 Gällivare
22.7 Kiruna
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Ludvika new offroad area Sunday 15.7 on SOT 2007
Sunday July 15 offroad area Märsta is changed to Ludvika on 12th Sweden Offroad Tour 7-22.7 2007.
We are cooperating with Ludvika motor club's offroad section and drive on their fine offroad area Björnhyttan, between Blötberg and Saxdala, 10 k east of Ludvika.
According to contact person Björn Elvegard the offroad area is LARGE and suitable for alla types of 4x4 vehicles.
Camping is on Ludvika Camping, 0240-19935, by lake Haggen, 5 k south of Ludvika.
Vid Ludvika (Björnhyttan) we have Three (3!) new offroad areas on SOT 2007, including Sveg (Vemvallen) and Hammarstrand (Döviken).
We will change the SOT map and program as quick as possible on http://www.swedenoffroad.com
Please help to spread the news about Ludvika 15.7.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, KAK och Försvaret
4 pages about SOT in finnish Land Rover magazine
Rover Friends Finland has existed since 1981 and is a club for both Rover personal cars and Land Rover 4x4 cars.
The club magazine editor Tapani Karhinen took part in Sweden Offroad Tour last summer in a team of three finnish Land Rovers.
The result is a four pages feature in the club magazine Rover Ystävät 2/2006 N:o 76. Wonderful photos is published from Kalix and Kiruna. Our web address www.swedenoffroad.com is written out too.
Two pages is about last year's SOT and the other two about the history behind Sweden's and one of the world's greatest offroad advetures.
The four pages story means good publicity for SOT and we hope to attract more finnish cars than the 1-3 finnish cars we normally have.
12th Sweden Offroad Tour 7-22.7 2007 offers three new offroad areas:
Ludvika (Björnhyttan) Sunday 15.7.
Sveg (Motor & Vildmarkscenter in Vemvallen) Tuesday 17.7 and
Hammarstrand (Zorb Center in Döviken) Wedensday 18.7.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Land Rover Monthly writes about Sweden Offroad Tour
British magazine Land Rover Monthly has in its December issue a two pages colour feature on this summer's Sweden Offroad Tour (pages 128-129)!
Venturers Search & Rescue from England took part for the second time in SOT. This summer they drove a vintage Land Rover 90 V8.
The author is excited about the freedom, beauty and variation on Sweden's greatest 4x4 adventure. But not so excited about all the problems with the Landy...
Land Rover Monthly is one of four british Land Rover magazines sold all over the world, which mean fine publicity for SOT.
The author sums up his article with the headline "Land of The Midnight Sun" in LRM's December issue:
"To sum up the Sweden Offroad Tour: it is a wonderful opportunity for a family holiday with your standard 4x4. There is no need for hotted-up specials, no pressure to compete, there is opportunity to learn four-wheel-drive off-road driving techniques, make friends with people from other countries. Maximum freedom is given to miss out sections if you wish to visit particular sights en route and rejoin at later stage. No bureacrazy, no pre-registration and wonderful campsites mostly by lakes. Make this your 4x4 holiday for 2007."
12th Sweden Offroad Tour goes7-22.7 2007. Map and program will be published on this sight on 1.12 2006.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, ATV-QUAD, LNTV, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
164 photos and English text from Sweden Offroad Tour 2006!
You can now watch a record-breaking 164 photos and read the diary and the photo texts in English from 11th Sweden Offroad Tour 8-23.7 2006 on http://www.swedenoffroad.com/sv/reportage/index.html
You can also see more photos at http://www.jeepclubsweden.se and http://www.jeepsweden.net and http://www.snowfreaks.nu
Have you put SOT 2006 photos on your or your club's homepage? Email peter.ojerskog@swedenoffroad.com and we put a link on http://www.swedenoffroad.com
Sunny record with 365 cars on Sweden Offroad Tour 2006
Date of the year: 8-23.7 2006.
Offroad sites of the year: Falkenberg, Kristianstad, Karlshamn, Karlskrona, Vetlanda, Söderköping, Kumla, Strängnäs, Stockholm, Märsta, Säter, Söderhamn, Härnösand, Kalix, Gällivare, Kiruna.
New sites of the year: Kristianstad (Vånga gravel pit), Söderköping (Olerum, now Sweden's largest private offroad area), Märsta (Rosersberg 4WD Land), Säter (Aspnäs motortrack).
Record of the year 1: 365 4x4 cars (with an average of 50 cars per day), 15 more than last year, although a petrol price at over 13 SEK. SOT is Sweden's and one of the world's greatest offroad adventures!
Record of the year 2: Offroad driving during all 16 days, not one singel travel day.
Record of the year 3: Sun and no rain during all the 16 offroad days!
All the way - all the days of the year: Only the Tour Leader-Jeep drove during all the 16 offroad days. No other vehicle for the first time in 11 years. But another half dozen vehicles drove all the way but skipped som days.
Most cars: SOT Kristianstad 9.7 with 75 cars
Least cars: SOT Härnösand 20.7 with 20 cars, depending on 500 kilometres transport road same day to Kalix...
Partners of the year: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Auto Motor & Sport, Traktor Power, LNTV, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Biggest foreign group of the year: Denmark with 31 cars. Followed by Norway (16), Germany (10), Holland (6), England (6 ), Finland (4), Switzerland (1), Belgium(1), Poland (1), Austria (1). Totally 11 nations which makes SOT Sweden's most international 4x4 adventure.
Surprise of the year: SOT Märsta 17.7. That Rosersberg 4WD Land held such a high class! Excellent trails!
Most missed: Engelsman Michael Miles, who earlier has taken part in 7 full SOT with his green Range Rover.
Least missed: The mosquitos, who died from drieness and cold nights.
Media of the year 1: Denmark Radio's reporter Rikke Hedeaeger Matthiesen who made a documentary on SOT 2006, which will be sent in P1 radio channel.
Media of the year 2: Dagens Nyheters (Sweden's largest daily) motor reporter Kalle Holmberg offroad drove the new Suzuki Jimny and Fiat Panda during SOT Strängnäs 15.7.
Sign of the year: The enormous blue-yellow Sweden Offroad Tour sign at the entrance to Gällivare
50's of the year: Newly opened 1950's café Back To The 50's at old E4 (Sweden's Route 66!) at Skånes-Fagerhult between Örkelljunga and Markaryd.
Winners of the year: The three German 4x4 carst hat won one cup each at Onsdagsbus (Wednesday Crazy) at Midlanda Motorpark, the evening before SOT Hänrösand 20.7.
Jeep of the year: SOT Falkenberg 8.7. New seven seater Jeep Commander took part for the first time in SOT.
Break down of the year 1: SOT Gällivare 22.7. The frontal diff on the Norwegians Mitsubishi would not work still after ten hours of welding.
Break down of the year 2: SOT Härnösand 20.7. The Dutch who during overtaking on a gravel road went down the ditch and hit a big stone. He hammerd the front wheels round again!
Break down of the year 3: The Tour leader Jeep's double puncture on both rear tyres during road work between Umeå and Bjurholm...
Stuck of the year: SOT Kumla 14.7. A Chevrolet Suburban in the big mudhole got to be winched by two cars...
Service of the year 1: SOT Falkenberg 8.7. Göran Kastell and his Land Rover repair gave free service to British Ventures Search & Rescue when welding their tow hook!
Service of the year 2: SOT Vetlanda 12.7. Six persons served lunch in Ökna, one per dish including one cashier!
Sunshine of the year: Whole damn Sweden Offroad Tour 8-23.7 2006! Sun from a clear blue sky during all the 16 offroad days. But modest temperatures at 20-25 degrees Celsius, perfect for car driving.
Rain of the year: What rain?! Not a single drop fell during all the 16 offroad days. Too few drops fell the nights before SOT Vetlanda 12.7 and SOT Kiruna 23.7.
Wettest of the year: SOT Kumla14.7. The water holes were all full
Muddiest of the year: SOT Karlshamn 10.7. Swamps that never dries.
Driest of the year: SOT Härnösand 20.7. Awfully dusty but we could drive on the swamps ("myr" in Swedish).
High point of the year: SOT Söderhamn 19.7. The top of Norrlandsporten's ski slopes offers magnificent views over the beginnign Lapland.
Mud hole of the year: The worst hole at SOT Söderköping 13.7 which only the land owners Volvo 6x6 went througt by full gas!
Hottest of the year: SOT Kristianstad 9.7. In the bottom of Vånga gravel pit is was 28 degrees Celsius
Coldest of the year: SOT Kiruna 23.7. 8 degrees Celsius. The top of Luossavaara mountain (as usual...) by midnight to se the midnight sun.
Lunch of the year 1: SOT Vetlanda 12.7. In Ökna the neighbour family Green served typically Swedish meat balls, cooked potatoes, brown sauce, lingonberries, drink, coffee and cookie for just 50 SEK. Astonishing atmosphere and service!
Lunch of the year 2: SOT Härnösand 20.7. "Laplandish kebab" at Midlanda Motorpark.
Dinner of the year 1: SOT Kiruna 23.7. Reindeer stew and mashed potatoes, lingonberries, "thinbread" and lingonberry juide at the farewell dinner at the restaurant at Ripan Camping. It won't get any more Laplandish than this!
Dinner of the year 2: Grill buffee at Mälarstrand Krog & Café at lake Mälaren in Västerås. Delicous and fantastic environment!
Coffee break of the year: SOT Gällivare 22.7. Fresh waffles with cloudberry jam and whipped cream at the Midnight Café on top of "kalfjäll" (treeless mountain) Dundret.
Midnight sun of the year: SOT Kiruna 23.7, partly clouded as usual...
Swim of the year: SOT Kristianstad 9.7. After 28 degrees Celsius at the bottom of Vånga gravel pit a cool swim in Ivösjön was refreshing.
Reindeer of the year: SOT Kalix 21.7. The "tourist reindeer" at Marieberg Wildlife Farm who likes offroad!
Dragrace of the year: Between the two military Volvo 6x6 during Onsdagsbuset (Wednesday Crazy) at Midlanda Motorpark!
Museum of the year 1: Petrol Museum in Älvsbyn (petrol station nostalgia!).
Museum of the year2: Caravan Museum in Dorotea (free entrance!).
Scene of the year: The wooden scene at Östra Berget (East Mountain) in Söderhamn where The Who played 4.6 1966.
Quote of the year: SOT Falkenberg 8.7. "Sweden Offroad Tour is the high ight of the year. You can drive as much offroad as you want!". By Norwegian who has taken part several times.
Miss of the year: To have a 500 kilometres transport to Kalix the same day as SOT Härnösand 20.7. I won't be repeated...
Moment of the year 1: SOT Vetlanda 12.7. The lunch with homecooked meatballs in the shadow of the old leaf tree surrounded by old red wooden houses will be a memory for ever.
Moment of the year 2: SOT Kiruna 23.7. In the end of the farewell dinner when the talking and address exchainging really has started. The participants didn't want SOT end!
Next SOT: 12th Sweden Offroad Tour 7-22 .7 2007, with new exciting offroad sites in Sveg and Hammarstrand in Lapland.
Partners 2006: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, Motor-Life, LNTV, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
11th Sweden Offroad Tour 8-23.7 2006 is on its way!
11th Sweden Offroad Tour July 8-23 2006 has started. And we had 65 cars on Saturday in Falkeberg and 75 cars on Sunday in Kristianstad - which is a new record start for SOT!
We are already people from eight countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, England, Germany, Holland, Poland and Switzerland!
We are proud to present no less than four new offroad locations to vary the tour:
Kristianstad (Vånga), Söderköping (Olerum), Märta (Rosersberg) and Säter (Säter Motorpark).
For the first time SOT 2006 contains maximum 16 offroad days, with no travel days.
SOT has in a decade grown to Sweden's and one of the world's greatest 4x4 adventures.
Last year SOT, with an average of 50 cars per offroad day, set a new record with totally 350 4x4 cars from 13 countries during the two weeks and 3000 kilometres.
SOT is the adventure of your life. You do what you like best - drive offroad - and the fun continues day after day after day after day after day...
And you never get tired of it. Because every day there are new terrain, new cars, new people, new camping and new city.
11th Sweden Offroad Tour 2006:
1. 8.7 Falkenberg (Björnås)
2. 9.7 Kristianstad (Vånga)
3. 10.7 Karlshamn (Paradize)
4. 11.7 Karlskrona (Boasjö)
5. 12.7 Vetlanda (Ökna)
6. 13.7 Söderköping (Olerum)
7. 14.7 Kumla (Brändåsen)
8. 15.7 Strängnäs (Grundbro/Sandlycke)
9. 16.7 Stockholm (Ekeby)
10. 17.7 Märsta (Rosersberg)
11. 18.7 Säter (Säter Motorpark)
12. 19.7 Söderhamn (Norrlandsporten)
13. 20.7 Härnösand (Midlanda Motorpark)
14. 21.7 Kalix (Marieberg Wild Farm)
15. 22.7 Gällivare (Koskullskulle)
16. 23.7 Kiruna (Magical Mystery Offroad Tour)
Partners 2006: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, Motor-Life, LNTV, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
Time for 11th Sweden Offrod Tour July 2006
It's time for 11 th Sweden Offroad Tour July 8-23 2006. Here are some reasons why you should participate in Sweden's greatest 4x4 adventure:
* New offroad areas on SOT this year are Kristianstad (Vånga gravel pit with surrounding terrain), Söderköping (Terrain Touring Olerum-Söderköping this spring attracted 70 cars)
och Säter (The motor track has so good terrain it's used for car trials).* New this year on SOT is that we drive offroad during alla the 16 days. No rest/travel day!
* Unique with SOT is that you can join and leave (and join again!) the tour when ever you want. And there is no pre-registration. To join one day is like a walk in the park. To join all the way is as tought as an international 4x4-competition.
* On SOT you do what you like best: drive offroad. And the fun continues day after day after day after day after day after... And you don't get tired of it because every day there is new terrain, new cars, new people, new camping and new city.
* If you join SOT for at least three days you will garanteed get new friends. If you stay at least a week you will get friends for life!
* On SOT the whole family can join, including the dog. If the wife and children don't want to drive offroad all day they can stay at the camping for sunning and swimming, or sight seeing in the city, or leave the SOT-day whenever you want, or take a one-day-brake.
* To drive all of SOT is very tought. Only a handful of cars manage it every year. 16 offroad days and 3000 kilometres wears both man and machine. Can you make the challenge?
* The fee for SOT is 35 Euro (300 Swedish Crowns) per car and offroad day, which is pretty fair. Comparable international 4x4-adventures normally cost 100 Euro per person and offroad day. Main sponsor Jeep Sweden pays half the fee for all Jeep owners.
* SOT is Sweden's and one of the world's greatest offroad aadventures. Last year, with an average of 50 cars, totally 350 vehicles from 13 countries took part, which was a new record.
* SOT is Sweden's most international 4x4 adventures. Until now people from18 nationas have participated. Last year we had cars from Sweden and Denmark (25 cars),
Norway (20), Germany (14), Belgium (3), England (2), Finland (2), Poland
(1), Switzerland (1), Austria (1), Checkia (1), Holland (1), Ireland (1).* SOT is Sweden's longest car adventure. We drive 3000 kilometres during 16 daygs. Plus the offroading. Plus the trip home.
* On SOT the new beginner and the experiened have as much fun. Even the new beginner in his brand new car can take part. Because every day there is one hour of volountary education.
* The terrain on SOT is generally easy. But there are always difficult parts for those who wants. Because the tour goes through ALL of Sweden the terrain in incredible varied.
* We sell our SOT/Jeep-shirts every day in sizes S, M and L. A unique souvenir that proves you have taken part in Swedenäs greatest 4x4 adventure.
* SOT is heavely promoted. The site http://www.swedenoffroad.com has 30000 visits per month. Press releases have been sent to all offroad magazines in Europe and we are in all 4x4 calendars. Full page ads in colour are publihsed in Swedish magazines Traktor Power 4/2006 and auto motor & sport 12/2006. We also have ads in tre isues of Swedish magazine 4 Wheel Drive.
* About 100 media have so far mede features on SOT through the years: American
Four Wheeler, Swedish 4 Wheel Drive, Traktor Power and Teknikens Värld, British Land Rover Owner International, German Off Road, Swedish Television, LNTV-video/DVD, etcetera.* SOT goes in the middle of the summer which means sun, varmness, swimming, relaxing, grilling, midnight sun and a good feeling.
* SOT ends July 23 with a farewell dinner at camping restaurant Ripan i Kiruna where everyone get a unique SOT Diploma.
* We publish a giant photo feature on all of SOT on http://www.swedenoffroad.com
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, LNTV, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
Lottery with sponsor stuff every day on Sweden Offroad Tour
As usual we will have a lottery every SOT-day at 4 pm on 11th Sweden Offroad Tour July 8-23 2006 where stuff from the sponsors will be handed out.
For example we have Jeep-carmodels from Jeep spare gas tanks from Dunlop, T-shirts fom Rindab and magazines from Traktor Power
The lottery is appreciated among the participants on Sweden's and one of the world's greatest 4x4 adventures.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, LNTV, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
100 SOT-T-shirts to be sold on Sweden Offroad Tour
We have a limitied edition of 100 Sweden Offroad Tour-T-shirts to be sold during 11th Sweden Offroad Tour July 8-23 2006
The T-shirt is of course blue with the yellow SOT-logotype, just like the Swedish flag, and can only be bought on the tour.
Sizes are: 20 of the XXL, 20 XL, 20 L, 20 M and 20 S.
Because the T-shirts are made of high quality in Sweden the price is 150 Swedish Crowns (20 Euro).
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, LNTV, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
Six pages Sweden Offroad Tour feature in Finnish magazine
The Finnish car magazine TURBO 2/2006 contains a nice six pages colour feature on Sweden Offroad Tour.
The feature is written by Matti Sulanto, who has joined Sweden's greatest 4x4 adventure several times.
The photos are from the SOT days in Stockholm (gravel terrain) and Boden (mud terrain).
The feature also has a complete facts notice about 11 th Sweden Offroad Tour July 8-23 2006.
Let's hope the Finnish feature attracts som more Finnish cars to SOT. We always have at least one Finnish car on the adventure trip, but would like more.
The Finnish TURBO-feature is the latest of over 100 featurres that have been publlished on SOT in magazines, radio, TV and Internet.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, LNTV, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
Swedish daily tests 4x4-cars on SOT 8-23.7 2006
Dagens Nyheter (Daily News) will test a couple ov SUVs on 11 th Sweden Offroad Tour July 8-23 2006.
Sweden's largest morning newspaper thinks SOT is a good opportunity to find legal terrain and good environment for their car tests.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, LNTV, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
Traktor Power 2/2006 writes about Sweden Offrod Tour
The new issue Traktor Power 2/2006 writes about Sweden Offroad Tour.
A three pages story in colour with lots of photos on last summers SOT and forthcomming 11th SOT July 8-23 2006 with a complete map of the offroad sites.
The magazine writes mainly about traktors but also a lot of offroad.
Traktor Power is the fastest growing magazine in swedish motor press. Up 5.600 issues to 22.2000 issues per month.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, LNTV, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
Russian company sell skid plates for 800 car models
"The company I'm working for is the leading designer and producer of skid plates (under engine protection, transmission case protection).
Our current productrange counts for about 800 models of skid plates. We produce them of steel, stainless steel and aluminum.
I'm looking for a partner in Sweden in off-road accessories sphere. In case of interest please contact me. +7 921 641 48 97, evgenyd@karter.ru
For further info look through www.karter.ru "
Best regards,
Evgeny Dorofeev
Area Manager
Metalloproduktsia, Ltd
Tel: + 7 812 259 72 75
+ 7 812 252 15 74
Mobile: + 7 921 641 48 97
www.karter.ru
SOT one of "50 greatest off road adventures in the world!"
England's largest all-brand magazine Total Off Road nominates in its March issue Sweden Offroad Tour as one of "50 greatest off road adventures in the world!"
On page 38 you can find SOT with a nice photo of the tour leader Jeep leading a caravan of 4x4s up a granite mountain with endless forests in the background outside Härnösand.
Total Off Road is sold all over the world and in Sweden you can buy the magazine at Pressbyrån and Presstop.
Of course it's prestigeous and flattering to find Sweden's greatest 4x4-adventure among legends as Dakar, Rubicon Trail, Rainforest Challenge, Baja 1000, Outback Challenge, Croatia Trophy, Belgium National, Lion's back, etcetera.
Total Off Road writes in its motivation why SOT is one of the 50 greatest off road adventures in the world:
SWEDEN OFFROAD TOUR
An event like no other, this 2000-mile marathon takes in no less than sixteen different offroad sites in just over two weeks - pitching you against naked mountainsides, rough wilderness trails and seas of mud. Held in the middle of summer, it starts in the south of the country and works its way inte Lappland, deep inside the Arctic Circle. You can join the tour for as much or as little as you've got - but having made it all the way from Britain, you'd certainly want to make the most of it and stay awhile."
11th Sweden Offroad Tour goes July 8-23 from Falkenberg to Kiruna.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
SOT Monday July 17 at Rosersberg 4WD Land
Sweden Offroad Tour Monday July 17 will be driven at Rosersbergs 4WD Land south west of Märsta/Arlanda/E4 north of Stockholm.
Here Experience Driving have their permanent offroad area, where they even have offroad meetings every other Sunday.
Rosersbergs 4WD Land is located just by Rosersbergs castle och the Rescue School.
It's the first time we drive SOT at Rosersberg.
Accomodation at Sigtuna Camping in Rävsta between Sigtuna and Märsta, telephone +46 (0)8-592 527 00.
The reason we can't drive at planned Rimbo-Norrtälje is that the old and offroad interested land owner suddenly got ill, and his over taking children are not that interested in offroad...
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
Jeep is car sponsor of Sweden Offroad Tour 2006
Jeep is car sponsor of 11th Sweden Offroad Tour July 8-23 2006!
Jeep was earlier the sponsor of SOT 1997-1999, but a change of Jeep distributor in Sweden paved the way for Mitsubishi during 2000-2002. But Jeep is back again!
Of course it is enormousley prestigeous for SOT to have the world's most well known 4x4 brand as sponsor: Jeep - the original 4x4!
SOT is now in the same league as Jeep-sponsored Jeepers Jamboree och Jeep Jamboree in USA!
Tour leader Peter Ojerskog drives a Jeep Cherokee CDR 2004, equipped with Dunlop tires and Warn winch and other Warn equipment.
Partners 2006: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
Dunlop sponsors Sweden Offroad Tour 2006
Dunlop continues to sponsor 11th Sweden Offroad Tour July 8-23 2006!
Dunlop is one of the world's largest and most wellknown producer of tyres and offers a lot of different 4x4 tyres. Actually it was the man with the name Dunlop who invented air filled rubber tyres, which increased the comfort enormously, before that automobiles where riding on solid rubber.
It's very prestigeous that two world known tyre producers chooses to sponsor Sweden's largest 4x4 adventure.
Partners 2006: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
Jeep gives Jeep-owners 50% discount on fee for SOT 2006
Jeep is the car sponsor of 11th Sweden Offroad Tour 8-23.7 2006!
Swedish distributor Jeep Sverige pays half the fee for all Jeep Owners particpating in SOT!
That means that all Jeep owners pays 20 Euro per car and offroad day (instead of full price 30 Euro), while Jeep Sverige pays the remaining 15 Euro to the organisers.
Partners 2006: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
Warn sponsors Sweden Offroad Tour 2006
Warn and Rindab continue to sponsor 11th Sweden Offroad Tour 8-23.7 2006!
American Warn is a producer of winches, hubs, lights, etcetera - and is the worlds' most wellknown brand when it comes to offroad accessories! Rindab in Stockholm is the Swedish importer.
It's of course an enormous prestige for SOT to have Warn as a sponsor. Tour leader Peter Öjerskog will hold winch demonstrations with his Warn every day on SOT!
Partners 2006: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
81 photos and diary from 10th Sweden Offroad Tour 2005
We have now published 81 photos and 15 day diary from this summer's 10th Sweden Offroad Tour July 2-17 2005!
Click on photos to enlarge them and get photo text. Enjoy!
11th Sweden Offroad Tour goes July 8-23 2006.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
Summary Sweden Offroad Tour July 2-17 2005:
Date: July 2-17 2005.
Offroad locations: Falkenberg-Hässleholm-Karlshamn-Karlskrona-Vetlanda-Värnamo-Mariestad-Kumla-Strängnäs- Stockholm-Söderhamn-Härnösand-Kalix-Gällivare-Kiruna. 15 locations during 16 days!
Jubilee of The Year: 10 years since we started Sweden Offroad Tour!
Record of The Year: Totally 350 4x4 cars from 123countries, after having around 300 during the last years.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
Largest: SOT Hässleholm with 75 4x4 cars. Former military area, Sunday and sunny weather contributed.
Smallest: SOT Mariestad with 35 4x4 cars.
Biggest surprise: That double as many 4x4 cars as usual showed up on the northern leg of SOT.
Largest foreign group: Denmark with 25 4x4 cars. Followed by: Norway (20), Germany (14), Belgium (3), England (2), Finland (2), Poland (1), Switzerland (1), Austria (1), Tjeck Republic (1), Holland (1), Ireland (1). SOT is truly international!
All the way - all the days: Michael Miles, England, Range Rover TD 1990 plus Daniel and Jim Fredriksson, Julita, Sweden, VW Taro pickup 1990. An achievement!
Most SOT participant: Michael Miles, England, Range Rover TD 1990. Has taken part in 7 out of 10 SOT - and mostly all the way!
Long distance: Petr Coufac and his two sons from Austria in a Jeep Wrangler 1995.
Biggest hero 1: Totally paralysed Conny Örnesved, from Täby outside Stockholm, in a rebuilt Jeep Wrangler 1998, who showed that nothing can stop a real offroaders! Had to quit last year because of a drowned gearbox, but made it all the way to Kiruna this summer.
Biggest hero 2: The tour leader who on his way home winched away a fallen down tree on the road that blocked the traffic between Åtvidaberg and Ringarum in Southern Sweden.
Winner of The Year 1: To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of SOT we draw a vinner from all the 350 drivers in SOT who got free participating in SOT and all Terrain Touring (Saturday Offroad Meetings) for 2006, worth 1.000 Euro: The winner is Nicklas Johannesen from Bjärnum in Skåne, in his Nissan King Cab 1987 who took part in SOT Hässleholm 3.7!
Winner of The Year 2: Conny Örnesved from Täby outside Stockholm who won a trophy for best 4x4 during the Motor Show in Härnösand, same evening as SOT Härnösand 13.7.
Winner of The Year 3: Everyone who won sponsor stuff every day on SOT, specially the fine Jeep car models.
Promotors of The Year: Kjell-Owe Mickelsson and Maria Larsson who together with ad company imega.se did that double as many 4x4 cars than usual (totally 50) and a large audience showed up at SOT Gällivare 16.7.
Sign of The Year: The 5 metres long blue/yellow Sweden Offroad Tour sign at the entrance to Gällivare.
Honour guest of The Year 1: Lars Carlstedt, Tomelilla, from Swedish Automobile Sports Federation, in the tour leaders former Mitsubishi Pajero at SOT Mariestad 8.7. It was Lars who originally come up with the idea of Sweden Offroad Tour!
Honour guest of The Year 2: Motor journalist Christer Gerlach from Stockholm at SOT Strängnäs 10/., to do some training for his third car trip around the world. He is already in Guinness Book of Records for his two earlier one-man-trips around the planet.
Finest Jeep: A Jeep Grand Wagoneer 1988, in gold metallic and wooden decor from Switzerland in mint condition, at the camping in Kumla 9.7. But refused to drive offroad, after visiting the huge US car meeting Power Big Meet (10000 US cars!) in Västerås.
Most winchning: The tour leader car's Warn-wich had to work several times daily on SOT.
Worst breakdown: Dutch Michiel van Duyvendijk showed up in SOT Härnösand 13.7 with his recently rebuilt Land Rover Discovery 1997. But immediately broke his steering bar and got a toe in, in the deep forest. Rescued and welded by local Jeepers, but did not dare to continue on SOT.
Service of The Year: Rindab retailer Little Red 4WD Parts who sold recovery equipment during SOT.
Sunniest. Whole damn SOT 2005! Except for the last afternoon in Kiruna.
Dryest: SOT Falkenberg 2.7, not a singel drop of moist, even the "waterhole" was completely dry...
Rainiest: What rain?! Not a single raindrop fell during 15 days of offroading. But there were still mudholes on all locations except Falkenberg.
Warmest: SOT Stockholm 11.7. At the bottom of Ekeby gravel pit the temperature reached 33 degrees Celsius. Followed by 30 degrees in Strängnäs 10-7 and Söderhamn 12.7. A real heatwave!
Coldest: SOT Kiruna 17.7. At the top of Luossavara mountain: 13 degrees Celsius.
Best lunch: SOT Gällivare 16.7. Fresh grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, homebaked cookies and most important: icecold drink from a box full of ice. Perfect in the summer heat!
Best dinner: Farewell dinner at SOT Kiruna 17.7: 100 percent lapish: reindeer stew, homemade mashed potatoes, lingonberry jam, "thinbread" and lingonberry juice!
Best coffee brake 1: At the "top house" at the top of Dundret mountain outside Gällivare 15.7 with a view over one tenth of Sweden: fresh waffles with whipped cream and cloudberry jam!
Best coffee brake 2: The 50' style café at village Hälla, by road 90 between Sollefteå and Åsele: untouched and genuine furnishing from 1953. And delicate bakery!
Midnight sun: SOT Kiruna 17.7, on Saturday we saw the sun in a little haze, but on Sunday it was too clouded.
Bästa swim: SOT Söderhamn 12.7. Three swims - morning, noon, aftoernoon - in the biglake Bergviken just by the foot of the ski slopes/offroad area. Perfect when it is 30 degrees Celsius in the air.
Reindeer of The Year: The white albino between Kalix and Gällivare.
Next SOT: 11th Sweden Offroad Tour July 8-23 2006.
Partners: Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
SOT one of "12 of the world's best off-road drives"
Sweden Offroad Tour is one of "12 of the world's best off-road drives" according to the January issue of Land Rover Owner International, Englands largest 4x4 magazine and the world's largest Land Rover magazine.
LRO have covered Sweden's greatest offroad adventure three times and know what they write about!
SOT is in good comany with offroad adventures in England, Balkans, Barbados, USA, Wales, etcetera.
Partners 2006:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
SOT press releaste sent to 40 offroad magazines
A press release about Sweden Offroad Tour 8-23.7 2006 with map/route, information and photo has been sent to 40 offroad magazines in Europe.
For example Swedish 4 Wheel Drive, German Off Road, 4WHEEL Fun, Geländewagen und Freizeit, Allrad & Enduro Markt, English Land Rover Owner International, Land Rover World, 4drive Magazine, 4x4, Total Off Road, French Tout Terrain Magazine, Passion 4x4, Auto Loisirs, Auto Verte, Italian Fuoristrada 4x4, TuttoFuoristrada, Auto & Fuoristrada, Autoroute 4x4, La mia auto 4x4, Spanish Solo Auto 4x4, Dutch 4WD Auto-Magazine, Hungarian 4x4 magazin, Austrian 4WD, Swiss 4x4 Das Schweizer Allradmagazin, plus large club magazines in the Nordic countries.
After eight tours, houndreds of foreign participants, several features in foreign 4x4 magazines, and over a million visitors on http://www.swedenoffroad.com Sweden's greatest offroad adventure is now well known among offroad ethusiasts in Europe and rest of the world!
Partners 2006:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
New record for swedenoffroad.com with 31000 visits
During January www.swedenoffroad.com set a new great record with 30.954 visits! That means nearly 1000 besök visits every day! A giant leap from 26520 visits the month before.
Partners 2006:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Traktor Power, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
SOT feature in Land Rover Owner International
British magazine Land Rover Owner International has in its November issue a large feature on Sweden Offroad Tour 2003!
Actually it's the third time that the magazine covers Swedens greatest 4x4 adventure.
LRO has over a quarter of a million readers all over the world, which means good publicity for offroading in Sweden.
The feature is on five pages with lot of photos in colour from the SOT-days in Strängnäs and Stockholm.
The headline is "Sweden Rocks" and the headline on the front page is "Scandimania: Off-Road in Sweden". Reporter is Mark Saville and Photographer is Matt Howell.
Photos of the SOT-logotype and tour leader peter Öjerskog is also published.
300 4x4 cars and people from 15 nations on SOT 2003
8:e Sweden Offroad Tour 12-27 juli 2003 attracted totally 300 4x4 cars, with an average of 50 cars per offroad day. There were participants from 15 nations.
SOT was unusually wet in the south of Sweden which made the trails muddy and slippery. But in the north it was unusually dry with lovely weather but dry and dusty tracks. The Midnight Sun killed all the mosquitos and even made the arctic rivers warm!
SOT 2003 was driven on 13 different offroad ares from the south to the north of Sweden. Highlights were Hässleholm were the former military are now is owned by the city and Alvis Hägglunds testing tracks outside Örnsköldsvik.
For photos - 60 of them! - from the tour please check SOT 2003 feature on Swedish version of this site.
9:th Sweden Offroad Tour will be arranged July 10-25 2004. A program will be published in the beginning of December 2003.
Partners 2003:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret.
Danish Land Rover Clubwrites about SOT 2003
Dansk Land Rover Klub's (danish spelling) club magazine Oasen (The Oasis) publishes an article about 8th Sweden Offroad Tour 12-27.7 2003 n its latest issue 1-2003.
The article is very informative and is illustrated by a photo of Swedes Peter Larsson and Maria Thurbergs borrowed Land Rover 90, which earlier took part in giant Land Rover meeting Belgium National.
Oasen is without doubt one of the finest club magazines. It is published monthly and contains 64 pages! The magazine covers every aspect of Land Rover: news, meetings, calendar, technical, history, international, reports from all local departments, etcetera.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Sweden's largest paper suggest swedenoffroad.com
Sweden's largest newspaper Aftonbladet ("Evening Post") suggests www.swedenoffroad.com as a good website about cars and driving. The paper writes:
"On www.swedenoffroad.com you find information about Sweden Offroad Tour and all other offroad driving with cars in Sweden."
Aftonbladet has 1.4 million readers, which is god for a country with 8.9 milion inhabitants.
Aftonbladet makes the suggestion in the web column of its car supplement. The suggestion is illustrated by a photo of the opening page of www.swedenoffroad.com
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Swedish Land Rover Club writes about SOT 2002
Swedish Land Rover Club has in its club magazine Rover Land 1 2002 a full colour page on Sweden Offroad Tour July 6-21 2002 . Illustrated with the program and map.
The magazine is distibuted to the clubs 1500 members plus offroad media.
Swedish Land Rover Club is by far Sweden's largest 4x4 club, celebrating its 15 years anniversary 2002.
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Six pages about SOT in new Italian 4x4 magazine
A feature on six colour pages about Sweden Offroad Tour July 6-21 2002 is found in new Italian offroad magazine La mia auto 4x4 ("My 4x4 car")!
La mia 4x4 is an extreme and trendy offroad magazine covering 132 pages. In the March issue you find the feature called "Avventura Sweden - Extrema libertà" (The Sweden Adventure - extreme freedom"). What the magazine like is the great freedom of SOT: no pre-registration, go on and off the tour whenever you want.
The feature is illustrated by 16 beautiful colour photos: lots of 4x4 cars in action, Sami (Lapish) people, reindeers, midnight sun - the whole kit!
Earlier large features on SOT have been publish in for example: English Land Rover Owner International, Land Rover World and Off-Road & 4 Wheel Drive, American Four Wheeler, German Off Road, 4 Wheel Fun och Geländewagenmagazin, Hungarian 4x4 magazin and Norwegian Vi Menn Bil.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Dutch 4WD Auto-Magazine writes about SOT
Hollands only offroad magazine 4WD Auto-Magazine writes in 3 2002 about 7:th Sweden Offroad Tour July 6-21 2002!
On the magazines calendar pages in the March issue is a photo news notice about Sweden's greatest 4x4 adventure.
The photo contains a beautiful midnight sun over the Adler lake in Boden, where the SOT-day use to be on Boden's gigantic southern military shooting range.
The news notice is a result of a press release about SOT 2002 that has been sent out to every European offroad magazine, plus a lot of club magazines.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Auto Bild alles allrad writes about SOT 2002New German 4x4 magazine Auto Bild alles allrad (all all-wheel drive) writes about 7:th Sweden Offroad Tour July 6-21 2002 in its second issue!
The article is illustrated by three nice colour photos from SOT: a caravan of 4x4 cars driving through the watery trails in Kiruna, a reindeer running along the side of the road(!) and an old dirty GAZ 69 getting cleaned.
Auto Bild alles allrad is a daughter magazine to Auto Bild, Germany's largest and the world's second largest car magazine, with a circulation of almost 800.000 copies a month!
This has resulted in a stream of e-mails and that the number of visitors to www.swedenoffroad.com has rised 20 percent in one month!
Al press release abolut SOT 2002 has been sent out to all European offroad magazines and a lot of club magazines.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
94 percent of tourists pleased with Sweden
A recent survey from the Swedish Tourist Authority shows that 94 percent of the tourists are pleased or very pleased with their visit in Sweden.
95 percent of the tourists are prepared to recommend Sweden as a tourist country.
Only 1 percent is dissatisfied with Sweden.
On Sweden Offroad Tour we notice that the participants are especially pleased with the great freedom of Sweden. You can park free almost everywhere, you may camp free for one night almost everywhere, you are allowed to walk anywhere and take a swim in every lake.
The SOT-participants are also satisified with the fine nature, the clean landscape, the extremely sparsely populated Lapland with its sparse traffic and of course the midnight sun which lights up your mind 24 hours a day.
German 4WHEEL Fun writes about SOT 6-21.7 2002
German offroad magazine 4WHEEL Fun publishes a news notice about 7:th Sweden Offroad Tour July 6-21 2002 in its February issue!
The headline is "Zum Polarkreis" (Towards Arctic Circle) and is illustrated with a colour photo from the superwet trails outside Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost town.
4WHEEL Fun is Germany's second largest 4x4 magazine - some say they even passed German Off Road - and is one of Europe's largest 4x4 magazines with a circulation near 100.000 issues per month.
Pressreleases about SOT 2002 have been sent to all offroad magazines and several club magazines in Europe.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Italian 4x4 magazines write about SOT 2002
Italian offroad magazines Fuoristrada 4x4 (Offroad 4x4) and La mia 4x4 (My 4x4) write about 7:th Sweden Offroad Tour July 6-21 2002!
Fuoristrada 4x4 has already published a notice and new magazine La mia 4x4 will, in its premiere issue in March, have ha large feature on Sweden's greatest offroad adveture.
Last year the first Italian vehicle ever took part in SOT and Swedish offroading. Aldo from Rome in a Land Rover first drove 2000 kilometres from Italy and then another 1500 kilometres to take part in the northern half of SOT.
Aldo enjoyed the little cooler weather in Lapland and the partly wet terrain. In Italy it's just very hot and dry during the summer, not that fun for offroading.
Pressreleases about SOT 2002 have been sent to all offroad magazines and several club magazines in Europe.
Last year over 50 media published something about SOT reaching 3-4 million people. Then you also have www.swedenoffroad.com with 180.000 visitors per year.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
French magazine writes about SOT 2002
French offroad magazine Auto Verte (= Green Car = 4x4 car) writes about Sweden Offroad Tour July 6-21 2002 n its latest issue, which gives ous many e-mails from France.
A press release about SOT has been sent out to all 4x4 magazines in Europe.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Danish Land Rover Club writes about SOT
Danish Land Rover Club has a general feature about Sweden Offroad Tour in it's member magazine Oasen (Oasis), the Decemer 2001 issue.
Over three pages DLRK descrives the three advantages about SOT: varied terrain (we are driving through all of Sweden), maximum freedom (no pre registration, go on and off the tour whenever you want) and low price (30 Euro per offroad day and car).
The feature is illustrated by beautiful pictures from Boden and Arvidsjaur in northern Sweden.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Europe's largest 4x4 magazine covers SOT 2002
German magazine Off Road is covering Sweden Offroad Tour 6-21.7 2002! Details for SOT 2002 will be published on this site during the spring.
Off Road is Europe's largest 4x4 magazine with a circulation of 100.000 issues and about 300.000 readers.
The feature in Off Road will of course have a large impact on Central Europe, where German is spoken in Germany (80 million inhabitants!), Austria, Swtizerland, The BeNeLux countries, etcetera.
Off Road has actually published a SOT-feature before, made by freelance journalist Monika Neiheisser, who made a one page story in colour.
At least50 media has published something about this summer's SOT, reaching about 3-4 million people.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Swedish Land Rover Club writes about SOT
Svensk Land Rover Klubb (Swedish Land Rover Club) has in it's new club magazine a 3-pages story on this summers Sweden Offroad Tour 2001!
SLRK member Leif Wester from Stockholm has written and photographed the feature. He took part with his grown up daugher Anna and their Land Rover Discovery 1996 with V8 and automat.
Leif is very positive towards SOT and starts his story with the following sentence (translated into English): "I have here written down a little during 9 days driving with Sweden Offroad Tour and it must be said at once: RECOMMENDED."
Leif and Anna is a proof that also new beginners with their day by day 4x4 car can have fun on Sweden's greatest offroad adventure.
They wanted to go all the way to Kiruna. But last summers heat wave made them decide to go back home after Alvdalen. But they will participate in the Northern part of next year's Sweden Offroad Tour July 6-21 2002.
Totally over 50 media have publishd something about Sweden Offroad Tour 2001 reaching 3-4 million people.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
SOT feature in Hungarian 4x4 magazin
Hungary's only offroad magazine, 4x4 magazin, has i four pages colour feature on this summer's Sweden Offroad Tour in it's latest issue- or Svéd Off Road Túra as SOT is called in Hungarian!
The feature is written and photographed by Andras Gero, one of four Hungarians who took part in SOT, and the first Hungarians to do offroading in Sweden.
Because the drove the whole way there are photos from the entire trip from Simrishamn to Kiruna. SOT is also mentioned on the front page.
Andras Gero and daughter Kata from the capitol Budapest drove a special equipped Land Rover Defender 90 1992. They also took a second place in Mitsubishi Offroad Marathon.
About 50 media has published something about SOT 2001 reaching a public of 3-4 million 4x4-enthusiasts.
7:th Sweden Offroad Tour is palnned for July 6-21 2002.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
11 pages SOT in Land Rover Owner International
For the second year in a row Sweden Offroad Tour was covered by Land Rover Owner International!
The feature is published on 11 pages in the October issue of LROI - a record for SOT during its 6 year! It is also published as the first feature in the magazine!
The huge feature contains superb photos of Land Rovers in beautiful Swedish terrain, a long, exciting and positive text, separate columns on tour leader Peter Öjerskog and Land Rover participants, and a map over the tour.
The blue and yellow SOT logotype with web address is shown six times on top of the left pages!
The LROI feature has resulted in a flow of e-mails from british 4x4 enthusiasts who are interested in SOT July 6-21 2002. Already this summer britons were the largest foreign group with about 15 cars.
Land Rover Owner Internationals October issue can be found i well sorted kiosks.
LROI is Great Britains largest 4x4 magaxine and the world's greatest Land Rover magazine with hundred of thousands readers all over the palent.
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Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
30 photos story on Sweden Offroad Tour 2001
You can now read and look on our huge 30 photos story on Sweden Offroad Tour 2001
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
440 cars on 6th Sweden Offroad Tour 2001
Sweden Offroad Tour June 30 - July 15 2001 attracted 440 different 4x4 cars from 12 countries. SOT keeps its position as Sweden's and one of the worlds largest 4x4 adventures.
The summer of 2001 was unusually warm in Sweden, with temperatures reaching up to 30 degrees Celsius. But there is always mud on the offroad areas and a swimming lake nearby!
There were cars from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, England, Scotland, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary - and USA!
The new competition Mitsubishi Offroad Marathon attracted 93 vehicles and was won by hungarian team Taita.
SOT 2001 was covered på Sweden's television largest motor program, The Traffic Magazine, with 1,5 million viewers, one forth of the grown up population of Sweden. It was also covered på Land Rover Owner International for the second year in a row!
SOT 2001 offered offroad driving om 13 different military offroad areas, and all with different kind of terrain. The two largest, Älvdalen and Boden, offers some of Western Europe's largest and finest terrain.
SOT 2001 ended with a perfect midnight sun at top of the Luossavaara monuntain in Kiruna. Luckily, becuaue there is only a 10-20 percent chance to see it because of clouds and often bad weather.
Before that the participants could drink av very well chilled ice glass of lingonberry juice at the partly permanent world famous ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi!
In a month you can read a 30 pictures story on SOT on this website.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Swedish Television covers Sweden Offroad Tour
Sweden Offroad Tour June 30 - July 15 2001 will be featured on Sweden's largest TV motor program: Trafikmagasinet (Traffic Magazine) on national televison (Sveriges Television)!
The program has 1,5 million viewers, 1/4 of the grown up population of Sweden! And they are all interested in cars!
This is the best promoting SOT can get. TV has a great impact and 1,5 million is by far the largest figure for any motor media in Sweden.
Trafikmagasinet will mainly concentrate on the SOT-day in Södertälje 5 th of July, and close to Stockholm.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
6 pages feature on SOT in Four Wheeler
The February 2001 issue of American 4x4 magazine Four
Wheeler has a six pages colour story on last summer's Sweden Offroad Tour!
The feature is done by Four Wheelers feature editor Michael Rudd
who flew over from Los Angeles to take part in Sweden's largest
4x4 adventure.
Michael Rudd calls SOT "one of the most extra-ordinary four-wheel-drive
excursions Europe has to offer".
Four Wheeler is the world's oldest and most respected 4x4 magazine
with about one million readers all over the world.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab,
Specialbilar
i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK
och Försvaret
SOT advertises in European 4x4 magazines
To forcefully promote Sweden
Offroad Tour June 30 - July 15 2001 there will be SOT ads
in 12 different European 4x4 magazines nest year!
A full page colour ad will be published in Swedish On&Offroad
magazine in the spring of 2001!
Six small colour ads will be publisched in Swedish 4
Wheel Drive magazine during the first half of 2001.
Colour SOT ads will also be published in the following European
4x4 magazines: Off Road (Germany), 4 Wheel Fun (Germany), Land
Rover Owner International (England), 4 Wheel Drive & Off-Road
(England), 4WD (Austria), Tout Terrain (France), Autoroute 4x4
(Italy), Off-Road.PL (Poland), 4x4 (Switzerland) and 4WD Auto-Magazine
(Holland)!
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab,
Specialbilar
i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK
och Försvaret
Sweden Offroad Tour on national TV
A feature on Sweden Offroad Tour 2000 was showed on Swedish Channel 5''s program Motor Journal monday October 23 20 pm!
The feature was almost 4 minutes - which is regarded as a long time in the Television business. It's the first time SOT is on national TV, earlier it has only been on local or regional TV.
The feature is filmed by offroad video company LNTV in Sweden, who covers the most of Swedish offroading since 1984.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Huge SOT story in Land Rover Owner Magazine
The Land Rover Owner International Magazine has in its October issue a 10 page cover story on Sweden Offroad Tour 2000!
The story is written and photographed by LROI's editor David Phillips, who joined the tour in a four door Land Rover pickup.
Phillips is amazed over the endless fir forests and countless glittering lakes - and that you can read a book outside in the middle of the bright Scandinavian "night".
LROI is the world's largest Land Rover magazine and Britain's largest 4x4 magazine, reaching 200 000 readers all over the world.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
SOT-contact person in Switzerland
Sweden Offroad Tour now has a contact person in Switzerland: Markus Stucki
Markus has taken part in SOT two times with his Jeep CJ-7 -79.
Markus can give good information about ferries, routes, etcetera, and hopes that more people from "Southern" Europe will take part in SOT.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Exciting beach-offroad in Estonia
The Baltic state Estonia has since one year its first and only offroad club: Estonian Off Road Club with contact person Aleksander Suur and about 30 cars.
Estonia became a free nation again in 1992 after the Soviet occupation since the war. There is still no laws against offroad driving (as in most West-Europe countries).
The Estonian Off Road Club drives mostly on former Soviet military areas and along the endless beaches by the Baltic Sea. The beaches offers both soft sand, hard limestone and swampy reed areas.
Estonian Off Road Club arranges meetings, trophys and competitions several times a year, with the Winter Trial as most popular. They also take part in Russian 4x4-adventures.
Estonia differs from the other east states. They talk a finno-ugris language similar to finnish (they understand each other). The north west coast also have long Swedish traditions where some villages still have Swedish names and the youngsters can learn Swedish in school!
As first Swede, web editor and Sweden Offroad Tour arranger Peter Öjerskog, joined Estonian Off Road Club for a weekend of lovely - and different! - offroading. Especially exciting was the driving out in the shallow sea on the hard and flat limestone bottom, but with lots of huge granite boulders to look out for! A feature will be publishied on the Swedish version of www.swedenoffroad.com in September, with a link from this notice.
Estonian Off Road Club heartly welcomes offroaders from other countries. Just contact them and they will be happy to show you the 4x4 opportunities of their charming country.
12 different nations on Sweden Offroad Tour 2000!
4x4 cars from 12 dfifferent countries took part during the 22 offroad days on Sweden Offroad Tour July 1-23 2000!
With an average of 50 vehicles per offroad day, in total 400 cars took part in Sweden's longest and biggest 4x4-event.
22 offroad days in a row is not just a record for Sweden - but for Western Europe!
Middle Sweden experienced its rainiest summer in a century, turning the offroad trails in to small creeks, and the terrain in to one huge layer of mud! But the worse weather - the better offroading!
Although all the rain the participants could see a beautiful midnight sun in Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost town, way above the Arctic Circle.
Sweden Offroad Tour 2000 was heavily covered by 4x4-media: for example American Four Wheeler, British Land Rover Owner International, German 4 Wheel Fun, Sweden's largest newspapper Expressen, Swedish 4x4 magazines on&offroad and Wheels, plus national TV Kanal 5's MotorJournalen. Plus 25 local newspapers, radio och TV!
Michael Rudd, feature for Four Wheeler with one million readers, says:
"I fell the Sweden Offroad Tour is one of the most succesfull and anjoyable events I've ever been part of and want to conratulate everyone who had the opportunity to share in this fantastic European off-road adventure."
The 6:th Sweden Offroad Tour is planned for June 30 - July 15 2001, with 13 offroad days and 3 travel days. You will get more information late this autumn.
You now see a feature in English on SOT 2000.
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
SOT-article in Off Road & 4 Wheel Drive
British offroad magazine Off Road & 4 Wheel Drive has in its March issue an article about Sweden Offroad Tour July 1-23!
4 Wheel Drive & Off-Road is Britain's largest offroad magazine that writes about all 4x4-brands.
The article on Sweden Offroad Tour is part of a 18 page special about "World's best off-road trails"! Sweden Offroad Tour is in good company with well known Dakar-rally, Rubicon/Moab in USA, Rainforest Challenge in Malaysia, offroading in Australia and different "raids" into Africa ,etcetera.
4 Wheel Drive & Off-Road points out that Sweden Offroad Tour has one of the lowest prices and is perfect for family vacation because you can go on a off (and on again) the tour whenever you want.
Writer Matt Ross took part in last years tour and has only good words to say about Sweden's largets offroad adventure. Standing on top of the Luossavaara-mountain at midnight, where Sweden Offroad Tour ends, and look out over Western Europe's last wilderness is an "awesome experience", according to Matt Ross.
If you want to subscribe this monthly 130-pages magazine, the price is about 41 English pounds, contact cihotline@aol.com
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
Article and ad about SOT in German 4Wheel Fun
German offroad magazine 4Wheel Fun has in its new issue 4-2000 both an article and an ad about Sweden Offroad Tour July 1-23 2000!
The article is illustrated by a beautiful colour picture when the convoy of 4x4 cars are climbing the treeless 900 meters high mountain Vittjokk outside Arvidsjaur.
The ad is put in by projekt leader Peter Öjerskog in the magazine's event calendar for adventures in July.
4Wheel Fun is one of Europe's largest 4x4 magazines with a circulation of 70.000 issues per month.
4 Wheel Fun also has the largest event calender och club list in Europe covering nine pages in the magazine!
Partners:
Jeep, Dunlop, Warn, Rindab, Specialbilar i Strängnäs, On & Offroad, auto motor & sport, Motor-Life, SBF, KAK och Försvaret
FORUM is a new service on www.swedenoffroad.com
www.swedenoffroad.com has a new interactive service for its readers: Forum
On Forum you can write messages, information, discussions, questions, answers, ideas, advertising, etcetera - if it's about offroad!
The message stays for 60 days. All Swedish people understands English well!
www.swedenoffroad.com is Swedens largest offroad-site! Take the chance to get your message spread all over Sweden, Scandinavia - and the world!
Send your e-card from www.swedenoffroad.com
Now you can give your 4x4-friends all over the world a view
of Sweden Offroad Tour by sending them an e-card
from www.swedenoffroad.com !
You have four beautiful and exotic pictures to choose from, mainly
from northern Sweden: The midnight sun in Kiruna, cars on top
of the treeless "fjäll" mountain Vittjokk outside
Arvidsjaur, "Rocky Road" in Kristinehamn, and the watery
trails (channels?!) of Boden.
With our e-card service you can even get a confirmation when
your reciever has read the letter! The e-card service is in association
with Swedish company outdoor.se
Volvo "Sow" 4x4 Club to be started in Sweden
A Volvo "Sow" ("Sugga" in Swedish) 4x4
Club is aimed to start with a meeting in Växjö in south
east Sweden on Saturday 19:th of June. The club will promote
and preserve the "Sow" and be a forum for the members
when exchanging parts and experiences.
The "Sow" is of cours Volvos TP21 military 4x4 car
built in the 1950:ies. En extremely reliable adn tought 4x4 car
with vacuum driven diff locks, but perhaps a little bit too heavy.
Mor information on http://welcome.to/sugga
. Mail to suggaregistret@hotmail.com
Swedish bead lock system Tireloc on Internet
Revolutionary Swedish bead lock system Tireloc now has its
own website in English on Internet: www.tireloc.com
Tireloc permits you to use very low tire pressure without the
risk that the tire will come loose from the rim.
Tireloc is a inner rubber tube covered with a liner that presses
the tire against the rim. It's a pneumatic system - not a mechanical.
The website explains how Tireloc works, prices, media opinions
and how to order.
