{"id":689351,"date":"2010-03-11T23:12:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T04:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/arctic-trucks-4wd-modified-expeditions-tours-iceland\/14484\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T23:12:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T04:12:57","slug":"arctic-trucks-4wd-adventures-on-the-icelandic-tundra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/689351","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Trucks &#8211; 4WD adventures on the Icelandic Tundra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gizmag.com\/pictures\/hero\/arctic-trucks-4wd-iceland-tours-expeditions.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"For a holiday with a lot of difference, Arctic Trucks gets you among the action in Iceland...\"><\/p>\n<p>You will probably never get the chance to race a Bugatti Veyron against a Eurofighter Typhoon, play &#8220;car darts&#8221; or <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=8917730350468263249#\" >fire an anti-tank gun at a flying Ford Scorpio<\/a> &#8211; because unless your name is Clarkson, May or Hammond, you don&#8217;t have the best damn job in the world. But if you fancy a taste of the incredible life the <em>Top Gear<\/em> crew enjoy, you might be interested to hear that Arctic Trucks, the Iceland-based company that took the lads to the North Pole in 2007&#8217;s Polar Challenge, is now offering a range of two-day, five-day and longer expeditions across the same territory &#8211; in the same beefed-up Toyota 4WDs that raced against Hammond&#8217;s dog sled team. 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