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Video of a Ram truck flying through Burning Man's mud trap while hauling an RV is the best ad a car company could ask for

Video of a Ram truck flying through Burning Man's mud trap while hauling an RV is the best ad a car company could ask for
  • The driver of a Ram 1500 TRX defied the odds in a video of the vehicle driving over mud.

  • Amid rainstorms and flooding at Burning Man, the pickup truck managed to escape the muddy playa.

  • Burners were warned to shelter in place as conditions worsened over the weekend.

Conditions at Burning Man 2023 were less than ideal, and some out of the 70,000 attendees continue to make their slow escape from the flooded and muddy terrain.

Weekend traffic updates warned Burners, as attendees are known, to avoid getting stuck in the mud by attempting to leave the arts festival turned disaster. While others trudged through ankle-deep mud at Burning Man, the driver of a truck made by Stellantis' Ram brand appeared to power through the wet grounds of Black Rock City, Nevada.

An X user named Brendan Cogbill posted a video of a yellow Ram 1500 TRX pulling an RV through the mud on Sunday amid a shelter-in-place order on the playa. The Burning Man festival was hit with a rainstorm over the weekend that left more than 73,000 people stranded.