Awesome Trucks

An impressive demo of Volvo Truck’s Collision Warning and Emergency Braking System which is able to alert a driver and automatically stop a truck, preventing rear-end crashes at up to 70km/h.

Driving on ice give us nightmares in which we both drown and freeze to death. But that didn’t stop this guy from creating a vehicle that can drive across fractured ice and extract itself from icy waters.

An Ecoboost F-150 fitted by SDHQ with a Raptor frame and body and tons of aftermarket parts, creating an off-roading beast of burden with lots of horses and torque yet has good MPG and ride.

As one of Robby Gordon’s Super Stadium Trucks takes a turn, its engine spontaneously combusts, sending itself off with an amazing smoke display unequalled by even the mightiest human smoker.

We’re pretty sure these yellow things are bails of cotton, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is the skill with which the driver manages to load, unload, turn them sideways and reload them.

Not your father’s pickup, this half-ton Tundra truck has a comfortable cabin that seats six, an optional 381HP 5.7L V8, 4WD, sat nav, Bluetooth and the towing capacity of… a Space Shuttle.

Legacy Classic Trucks take old Dodge Power Wagons and pump them up to create this monster. They come with a 16,500 lb. winch and modern amenities. Available in two and four door variants.

Combining the looks of an old Jeep Wrangler with a Toyota FJ Cruiser and the DNA of the Ford Bronco, we’d love to see the water-safe Troller TR-X 4×4 (t)rolling off-road outside of its native Brazil.

Highliner Faith Dickey does something no sane person would do, crossing a line strung between two speeding Volvo trucks before they run into a pair of tunnels. Amazing, but a big bowl of crazy.

Check out the ARJES hydraulic shredder VZ 950 crushing whole cars to bits in seconds. Is it better than when the Terminator dropped himself into the hot molten steel in T2? Your call. (Thanks Peter!)

In development by AD Boivin, the Track N Go is a wheel-driven track system, that turns trucks and SUVs into gigantic all-conquering snowmobiles without expensive – or ugly – conversions.

Inpsired by the classic Willys FC, this militaristic Wrangler-based beast can handle the roughest of terrains on its huge wheels, and places the driver above the front tires for a cockpit-like view.

The Phibian can reach speeds of up to 80mph on land and 30mph on water. It has twin 250hp engines and twin jet drives and can carry 3,300lbs of cargo or up to 15 passengers.

This truck sinks deeper and deeper into the water, and looks like it’s going down for the count. But jump to about 1:20 to see its miraculous recovery from an almost certain watery grave.

Actually, this is just a regular fire truck, but the daring and brave men of Eltham, Melbourne Australia don’t let deep flood waters stand in the way of getting to their destination.

A double cab conversion kit that transforms the Jeep JK Wrangler into a truck “with more off-road capability than a four-door truck and more cargo room and carrying capacity than a Jeep.”

Notice something wrong with this truck? Despite the fact that it’s missing one of its front wheels, it still manages to drive down the road. Just don’t ask the driver to make a left turn any time soon.

It was a major miracle that no one was injured in an accident in Rockwall, Texas, as an 18-wheeler driver lost control of the rig, which swept across the highway into a cop cruiser and two other cars.

Before the Indy 500, Top Gear US’ Tanner Foust put his truck onto a giant orange Hot Wheels ramp, living out every little kid’s fantasy and nailing a world-record 332-foot jump in the process.

This Russian off-road vehicle can drive across just about any terrain, and even floats on water. Its soft tires can even run over a person without injury. And yes, it’s polar bear resistant.

What happens when you want to keep your city’s streets clean, but can’t afford expensive street-sweeping equipment? Just get yourself any old truck, a crapload of brooms and do this instead.

Has a modular space frame and all steel cab. Hand-assembled and highly configurable, including options like a 2-, 3- or 6-seater cab and gas, natural gas, hybrid or electric motor.

12-time Big Rig Pikes Peak champ Mike Ryan took his 10,000 lb., 1950hp semi truck to the El Toro Marine Base, the site of Ken Block’s first Gymkhana video, and did some drifting of his own.