---
title: "Watch This Skiing T-Rex Chase a Jeep Wrangler Down a Michigan Street"
description: "Tyrannosaurus Rex and Jeep Wranglers famously don't get along—just ask Jeff Goldblum. That's why this video showing a T-Rex skiing down a Michigan street behind a Wrangler blasting the Jurassic Park theme song is so noteworthy. See, the Winter Olympics really do bring everyone together."
date: "2018-02-14"
modified: "2018-02-14"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/18474/watch-this-skiing-t-rex-chase-a-jeep-wrangler-down-a-michigan-street"
categories:
  - "Jeep News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "dinosaurs"
  - "Jeep"
  - "Jeep Wrangler"
  - "Michigan"
  - "Off-Road"
  - "snow"
  - "Super Bowl"
  - "suv/crossover"
  - "Wrangler"
---

# Watch This Skiing T-Rex Chase a Jeep Wrangler Down a Michigan Street

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Tyrannosaurus Rex and [Jeep Wranglers](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/16925/2018-jeep-wrangler-first-drive-the-all-new-wrangler-sets-the-standard-again>) famously don't get along—[just ask Jeff Goldblum.](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMOljrWUUXc>) That's why this video showing a T-Rex skiing down a Michigan street behind a Wrangler blasting the *Jurassic Park* theme song is so noteworthy. See, the Winter Olympics really do bring everyone together.

All right, so it's not a real dinosaur. But when Michigan man Taylor Bowman and a few friends decided to pull the stunt out of sheer boredom this weekend, he figured people wouldn't mind. With his friend John Boruta in the costume, he drove his [Jeep](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/18346/yes-theyve-already-ls-swapped-a-brand-new-2018-jeep-wrangler-jl>) around his neighborhood with the T-Rex in tow and John Williams' epic score echoing across the snowy street.

"We were just talking about going to a parking and pulling a sled behind the jeep and \[Boruta\] said he wanted to try skis," [Bowman told the *Detroit Free Press*.](<https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2018/02/11/tyrannosaurus-rex-skis-jeep-wrangler-ferndale/327641002/>) "I knew he had the costume and thought it’d be funny to do a Michigan *Jurassic Park* video. We thought the neighbors would get a kick out of it and it looks like they did!"

Turns out, it's not just the neighbors who enjoyed it. For such a simple stunt, a video taken by a nearby resident showing the Jeep slowly roll down the street with the skiing dino close behind has racked up 1.2 million views on Facebook.

Even though dinosaurs, Jeff Goldblum, and the Jeep Wrangler are all in the news right now thanks to [a Super Bowl ad featuring all three,](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMOljrWUUXc>) Bowman said they were trying to imitate the scene [where a T-Rex chases the three main characters](<https://youtu.be/rxqHVoZ0fzc?t=32s>) in the original 1993 movie.

https://youtube.com/embed/rxqHVoZ0fzc

## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

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