I Bought the Absolute WRONG Car to Drive 1,300 Miles Down the Alaska Highway! (Part 1)

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[evankatz]

The scenery alone is worth the video watch!

[c_solly]

The old 'spare tire in a suitcase' trick.
Works every time

[Parker]

That drive will be interesting. I’ve done it several times, on a motorcycle. The roughest road will be the Alaska Highway between Tok, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. The scenery will be utterly beautiful; the road construction will seem interminable.

[ljw]

8:00: when you use electricity in AK, 75% comes front Dinos. From Wikipedia: 52.4% natural gas, 20.7% hydroelectric, 13.5% petroleum, 10.8% coal, 2% wind, 0.6% biomass and 0.1% solar.

[brad-lee]

Make absolutely sure you stop at Liard Hot Springs Provincial Park in Northern B.C. and soak in one of the most beautiful and big hot springs. I'm from Dawson Creek I make the trip once a year. Have a great trip!

[kennethisaac]

My parents drove from Iowa to Fairbanks Alaska back in 1969 in their Camaro convertible. I'd love to make that drive some day.

[anthonyc]

That gas can looks like a good capacity for replenishing a chain saw, not fueling a car to get to the next remote filling station. What is it, just one gallon?

[ShockinglyBleh]

An I8 you actually own now, good stuff.

[MisakiLeasim]

Back in 2018 I drove from Kenai, AK to Haverford, PA in my 2017 Subaru WRX. It was AWESOME and have been craving doing it again! Super stoked to see this!

[TommyPickIes]

I did Not a expect a bmw I8 that's awesome

[petelattimer]

i think some of these need a seperate channel. Roman's Midlife Crisis Channel! 🤣🤣🤣🤣. I bet this was an EPIC trip though!

[stonepa]

Great video! My buddy and I had a choice of driving round trip from Salt Lake City to Fairbanks in my FJ60 Land Cruiser or a 1992 Honda CRX HF. Of course we took the CRX. Something like 2 inches of ground clearance and almost zero payload. Still averaged almost 50mpg in that tin box. Destroyed the windshield, headlights, and hood with flying rocks. But we made it.

Repeated that trip 6 times but always in one of my Land Cruisers.

Top tip to others who make the drive- take it really slow through construction zones and watch for flying rocks. That’s an expensive windshield and pajntwork.

[AK-Brian]

Great seeing Alaska make it into another TFL series! Looks like you even had some nice weather, which isn't always a guarantee. You've already made it back to CO safe and sound going off of the other clips, so I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the adventure unfold.

Cars are meant to be driven - certainly, not many can claim to have taken an i8 across the AlCan! Oddball trips like these are always the most memorable. More people should bend the rules like that, even if only a little bit. :)

Take care!

[wilmarbarrick]

Stupidity has been sponsoring most content on the internet for the better part of 30 years. It's like it has unlimited resources.

[spdrcr]

My mother's family did the AlCan round trip around 1970 in a split window VW van! They had 2 spare tires on the roof and made the whole trip without needing one!

[PrestonGladd]

Just drove from North Carolina to Fairbanks, AK and I can say the ALCAN is not bad at all. It's about 98% paved with fuel stations a plenty, the only bad roads are right before the AK/CA border and about 30 miles into AK. Other than that it's all well paved mostly 4 lanes with everything you could possibly need. The only way you would realize that you're not near civilization is the fact that you basically don't have any cell service at all in the Yukon or AK except inside of larger cities (whitehorse, Tok etc.).

[tractorboy]

That is a serious road-trip. Serious as in "as serious as a heart-attack"! Wish you all the luck in the world, but hope you don't need it. Can't wait.

[DoctorHayduke]

You had me at "stupidity".
😂😂😂

[johnjstacy]

In 1996 I drove a 1989 Subaru Loyale wagon from Michigan to Mt. Denail and back with a broken radiator fan.

[LukeEdward]

My only regret is that you guys spoiled the surprise with two videos this week. I genuinely would have enjoyed being surprised by the vehicle choice and followed with anticipation the progress in the vids.