monster truck 4x4


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

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 ... Read more →

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