Meet the perfect mount for the battle against winter: Ken Block’s F150 RaptorTrax.

Cold, dark days got you down? Sick of wading through snow drifts? This cold-weather killer obliterates them with a wall of noise and tank-tracked torque. Mother Nature, you’ve met your match.

On the Ground

First up, and most obviously, the tracks. They’re made by a company called Mattracks and each one weighs about 350 lbs. All that extra heft means that the ordinarily very capable Fox shocks the Raptor comes with need upgrading. In their place the RaptorTrax runs a set of King shocks, AKA full-on trophy truck competition weaponry. Combine that with an armored belly pan and you’ve got yourself a vehicle that can slither through even the deepest snow without worrying about hidden stumps and rocks.

Under the Hood

You might imagine that installing “wheels” that weigh 1400 lbs would be a bit of a drain on power and you’d be right. Remedying that is a massive Whipple supercharger bolted onto the first-gen Raptor’s 6.2 litre V8 to boost it to 650 horsepower. I’m not saying the twin-turbo V6 in newer Raptors is inferior (it makes more horsepower and torque than its N/A daddy), but those big rumbly V8s will be the future collector pieces. There’s no replacement for displacement!

Interior

Inside we find the two front seats replaced with Recaros and four-point harnesses. The rear seats are gone altogether, moved to the bed to make room for the roll cage as well as other goodies you need on a snowboard trip. The RaptorTrax cab packs a cooler, hitch-mounted barbecue, and plethora of camera equipment for filming all those sweet jumps.

Exterior

Out back there are the aforementioned seats as well as snowboard racks, biiiiig lights, and waterproof speakers. Up top there’s a roof basket with a chainsaw and axes to help with building jumps and even a wake board rope so Block can tow his pro snowboarder buddies around with this rolling affront to winter. What a fucking life.

Fuel is the only drawback that I can see with this thing. A 650 horsepower supercharged V8 pushing a Raptor and 1400 lbs of tracks through waist deep snow must drink like an Irish rugby team. Then again, it’s got plenty of places to strap extra fuel tanks down! C’est la (best and most envied) vie.

Here’s a video of Ken and his RaptorTrax doing their thing in British Colombia. Enjoy!