Why don’t American’s come up with unbelievably cool crap like this? I mean you know all those record snow storms we were whining about? They wouldn’t matter if your car had its own set of tank tread snowshoes!
Essentially you just drive your Volkswagen bug, or Ford F150 up onto these tank treads and then remove the tires and bolt it in place. The steering, braking and acceleration function like normal – except that you can drive over your neighbors (literally) and anything else in sight.
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BUnk the tread, Russian is the most irritating language I have come across.
It’s probably a lot slower, that’s why. But seriously, that’s a great idea for people like Alaskans.
This gives me a business idea.. I live up in Canada where many of our farmers might find it useful to convert to this during our long winters :)