No its not a re-make of a 1966 comedy film, but an expedition across the Arctic sponsored by the Russian Geographic Society.
The specially designed trucks and their trailers left the Russian northern coast in February and crossed the geographic North Pole earlier this month.
The Russian adventurers are now heading toward Ward Hunt Island and from there toward the community of Resolute in Nunavut Territory where they are expected to arrive in June.
“These are specially designed vehicles made to travel over ice and open water with an extra light aluminum body, six tires per vehicle with low pressure intended to cause little damage to the tundra,” said Natalia Babikova, who is co-ordinating the expedition from Moscow.
The Russians plan to leave the vehicles in Resolute until next winter. They will then drive the vehicles to the Bering Sea, and back to Russia
This is not the first time vehicles have been driven across the frozen Arctic to the North Pole. Yemelyas 1 and 2 made it in 2009
And earlier in a TV broadcast in 2007, the usually irreverent and wildly popular British car show, Top Gear, sent specially prepared Toyota Hilux vehicles to the 1996 location of the magnetic north pole.
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