Snowmobiles

A one-of-a-kind machine called the "Half-track Fox" serves as the subject of VW's latest restoration, and it's a true jaw-dropper. The van started life as a 1962 Splitty before getting converted into something of a snowcat adventure van.

While many people enjoy whipping around on snowmobiles, the things are rather big and heavy compared to vehicles like dirt bikes. That's where the WS250 comes in, as it's a compact, one-passenger, stand-up snowmobile.

Back in 2018, Taiga Motors announced an all-electric snowmobile called the TS2. The company tweaked the design the following year, and expanded the model range to three. Now the first consumer-ready vehicles have rolled off the production line.

If you were planning to drive in Antarctica, you probably wouldn't plan on doing so in a vintage sports coupe. But you're not Renee Brinkerhoff, the racer looking to finish a 7-continent voyage by power-sledding across Antarctica in a Porsche 356A.

Quiet, clean electric drives have the ability to revolutionize vehicles well beyond autos. MoonBikes is bringing electric tech to the mountains, finding a space between the electric bike and the e-snowmobile with a full-throttle electric snow bike.

We've already seen kits for converting traditional bikes to ebikes, and for converting them to pedal-powered snow machines. The Electric SnowBike Kit goes a step further, by combining the two.

Part snowmobile, part sled and part drift kart, the Bobsla gives non-skiers something much more exhilarating to do on ski trips than sit by the lodge fireplace. The all-electric Tyrolean motor sleigh treads, slides and spins its way around the snow.

​Even though many outdoorsy parents may be eager to get their kids snowmobiling, a big, heavy, fast snow machine may not be the best thing to put under the control of a small child. That's where the tiny, light and relatively slow Naseka comes in. It's electric, and can be utilized year-round.

Canadian startup Taiga is on a mission to make the thrill of exploring the great outdoors more sustainable. To that end, it launched the TS2 at the weekend – an all-electric snowmobile that can zoom from standing still to 100 km/h in 3 seconds.

​It’s not every day you get to see a 500-pound snowmobile do a 5-story high, 100-foot long backflip. Minnesota native Levi LaVallee took advantage of the Superbowl circus to stage the crazy stunt over Minneapolis’ Nicollet Mall. And everything went as you'd expect.

​Cyclists in Canada will soon be able to pedal from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean, without having to share a road with a single car. The Great Trail will stretch 15,000 miles through each of the country’s 13 provinces and territories and touch three oceans.

Snowmobile and bike combinations come in all different shapes and sizes, but few are as dramatic as Joey Ruiter's new Snoped (pronounced "snow-ped"). Created as a "mash-up between art, design, fashion and lifestyle," what it may lack in conventionality​, it makes up for in style.