Ford’s special vehicle team are known for some mad conversions, and the old F-150 Lightning with its bonkers supercharged V8 and street aspirations is a case in point. But now they have realised that trucks are meant to stay off road and married that bonkers engine mentality with some really off-road kit to make the Ford SVT Raptor. Recently released with an even bigger engine, this beast sports a 6.2l V8 putting out 414hp. While this doesn’t make performance comparable to on-road speed demons, 0-62 in 7 seconds and as much torque as a 911 turbo makes it one of the fastest things you can take through a desert without bothering too much about being broken by the scenery.

Fitted with Fox racing shocks all round with 11 inch travel in front and 14 inches out back, electronically switchable four wheel drive, 35″ all terrain tyres, and that engine this is a truck you can enter almost unmodified in any desert race. And that gives it the cool the Lightning lacked and a firm place in my dream garage.