Hard times means some Icelanders can't keep on truckin'

[Rodslinger]

I'll take TWO!

Hard times means some Icelanders can't keep on truckin'

Posted May 4th 2008 4:31PM by Jonathon Ramsey


In Iceland, the leviathan you see in the picture above is called a "jeep." Here in the U.S., it would be called a massively tricked out F-350 Super Duty, or probably just "monster truck." The 6,000 members of Iceland's 4x4 club use them to explore the barely reachable sections of the island nation, trusting 4-foot-high studded tires and a bevy of custom modifications to get them back to civilization.

The problem is that Icelanders are having their own currency issues, with a free-fall even worse than the dollar's being just the start. When gas is almost $8 per gallon, that puts a fill-up somewhere around the $500 mark. And that puts a hurting on everything -- especially when you have to spend even more money getting your truck hauled out of the ice it just fell through. Not that any of this really stops them, because, well, there isn't much else to do in Iceland. So follow the link and check out the trucks in the slideshow. It's big-wheel badness.

Slide Show

LINK:

Icelanders' Love Of Crazy Trucks Hits Deep Freeze - WSJ.com

Hard times means some Icelanders can't keep on truckin' - Autoblog

[buckles24]

Those are some impressive trucks.

[bluestroker]

sweet trucks man ! ! !

[CHenry]

Seeing that truck half under the ice hurts!

[Banshee34]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!

[BigRed]

I think Tank has some competition!!

[redstroker_2002]

thats a true truck there!!!!

[fordmugg]

what do they do when the whole truck breaks through the ice .....just say bye bye

[f250ford]

I have followed their trucks for several years. Here is a link to a 4x4 site over there. 4x4 Off Roads ! Here are a couple nice Ford pics from their site.

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Last edited by f250ford : 05-12-2008 at 01:38 PM.

[cchase]

those are sweet. i saw a thing on topgear when they used toyota diesels like that, i was saying to myself i wonder what my truck work look like, now i know!