not to mention the braking system of the car needs to interface with the tracks. there’s plenty of ways to do this, but not many easy ones

why have wheels when you can have tank tracks!

I can see a serious roll-over risk because the center of gravity is so high. It helps to remove the car tires like they showed on the ones zooming around in the weeds.

They are “sno-cat” tracks. Strictly for loose surfaces.

i want i want i want i want…does any one have a work up yet?

What kind of car is that? The little white one?

damn that looks like a good idea… shame i would need my class H to drive with them in england… bloody english motoring laws :(

@Brillobreaks It’s “Lada Niva” :)

Why bother! http://www.mattracks.com/

I need one of these, I’m tired of this damn snow.

@Alexander: Snow tires will work wonders, if you haven’t tried ‘em yet. In addition to more aggressive tread, the rubber’s softer so they don’t harden up in the cold. My otherwise hapless Civic’s pretty tank-like with some Nokians on the rims.

Kinda of clever but pretty simple idea.

With the vehicle at the start you can see the axel stands, that support the rear of the car. When you load the car on the tracks, you would support the rear (RWD) or the front (FWD) on the axel stands, then then remove the tires, and mount a pulley or chain drive (on each side) to the hub that runs the tracks.

For steering and breaking you need to have a separate braking system on each track. Which is why there are two master cylinders shown in the video, one for each track. If you apply braking to one side of a diff the other will spin faster. Thus you have steering, if you brake both sides you have braking :P

Mattracks are made in the use can give your vehicle tracks in 30 min. they have tracks for ATVs also. And the best part, no major modifications are done and switch back anytime, just 30 min job and you have tires again, but why would you want tires once you have tracks. Tracks are way better, never have to worry about getting a flat.

I’ll wait until the Top Gear review…

@Alexander if you learned how to drive in snow and had real tires you would not have that problem. I drove a Geo Metro in northern michigan for 3 years… 3 feet of snow is what we get overnight.

I had real snow tires, and went places the truckbillies could not. (Up icy hills for example)

4 wheel drive is for girly pussies that have no driving skills.

Crazy Russians…

It is a Lada Niva, didn’t they have a PTO?

@Ninja
And if you ran tracks during the summer in Minnesota, the treads would be destroyed in a mere matter of HOURS due to our poor roads. But really, don’t they make Jeep Wranglers for a reason? I believe a full tank platform is a little overkill.

That is fun lol, wonder what it would be like coupled to a high power sports car like an r34 skyline… Super tank me thinks rofl.

Why the Russians though of this first… Oh well could come in handy in the next Georgia war as cheap ass troop transport I guess. Cost of APC = few million, cost of one of these, a few thousand plus the poor civilian whos car is conscripted for mother Russia haha. Not to mention a normal tank car would probly get you 30mpg easy, APC mostly give you 1-5mpg…