Snow

The Monte-Carlo Rally is one of the biggest driving events of the year. The rally kicks off on January 19, 2015, so drivers have been preparing for the race for a while now. The guys over at Jalopnik’s Black Flag spotted this awesome, but short bit of driving footage, as 2013/2014 WRC world champ Sébastien Ogier tests out his VW Polo on some deliciously icy mountain roads.

Ken Block recently spent some time showing off the snow-ripping prowess of his Ford F-150 RaptorTRAX truck. But whenever you shoot a video, there’s always footage that ends up on the cutting room floor. Monster Energy has been kind enough to release this reel, which features about six extra minutes of video from the shoot.

Strap yourself in for a wild ride in this old Audi 200 Turbo as it takes to the snow-covered slopes and throws the white stuff every which way. Driver James Huovila (we think that’s his name) throws caution to the wind as he pulls powdered donuts and powerslides, then takes his car uphill and downhill for the real fun.

The Rebellion R2K is a high-performance race car that was designed for the Gumball 3000 rally, which runs from Miami to Ibiza. But that warm-weather route didn’t stop driver Jon Olsson from taking the 600 horsepower, 2,200 lb.

During a recent media event in China, Maserati invited guests and journalists to put its shiny new Ghibli S Q4 to the test on the snow and ice. It’s only appropriate since the whole thing was done during the 2014 Harbin Ice and Snow Festival.

With much of the Northern Hemisphere covered in snow this time of year, it’s no wonder so many of the car videos showing up on the Internet these days involve driving on ice and snow. And while it’s probably advisable that your daily winter driver is some sort of sturdy 4×4 or at least an AWD, there’s nothing quite so fun as a high torque rear wheel-drive car for slipping around if you’ve got a safe place to do it in.

If we lived at the bottom of the hill on a country road someplace that got a lot of snow and ice, our first choice of winter vehicles would probably not be a Fiat 500. But that didn’t stop this guy from making that decision.

Last month, Red Bull put together Frozen Rush, an awesome event in which truck drivers raced powerful 900 horsepower Pro4 trucks across the snow-covered mountains of Maine. The team recently released this short documentary which includes additional footage of the race, along with a breakdown of the race winners and conversations with the drivers.

Colin’s Crest is a famous rally jump along the snowy course of Rally Sweden that was named to honor the great rally driver, Colin McRae. Each year, a prize is awarded for the longest jump over the crest during the first run of the course.

Rally racing and drifting are clearly horses of a different color, but the two combine brilliantly when there’s enough snow on the ground – along with the right car and driver. Let’s go for a ride with Formula Drift driver Kenneth Moen as he tears up the snow and ice-packed countryside in Norway in his rear wheel-drive 840hp Toyota Supra drift car to show us how it’s done.

Audi sent an SQ5 quattro to the Alps along with filmmaker David Tindale and freeskier Roy Kittler to see what sort of action video they could create on the slopes. With the help of a drone camera from aufmschlau.ch

The inaugural Red Bull Frozen Rush event took place on the snowy mountainside of Maine’s Sunday River resort. With eight 900 horsepower Pro4 trucks competing on a figure-eight course with a steep climb, lots of snow, and even a cross-over jump, the racing was intense, to say the least.

We just came back from the Detroit Auto Show a few days back, and the 2014 Ford F-150 was one of the darlings of the show. And while the new F-150 has tons of improvements, most of them are in the way the vehicle is constructed and its technologies.

If you find yourself stuck in the snow, you know that even the best winter tires or chains aren’t necessarily going to bail you out of the deepest banks. Enter Track N Go, a modification kit that lets you turn everyday pickup trucks into snow-eating tanks in less than 15 minutes.

The Willis Resilience Expedition is an effort led by 19-year-old Park Liautaud to break the world record for skiing across Antarctica from the coast to the South Pole. The official truck for the expedition will be a customized Toyota Hilux 6×6 built by Arctic Trucks.