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    GO BIG OR GO HOME…

    Jul 06, 2022 6 minutes
    WORDS OLLIE KEW
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    MARK FAGEL SON, JONNY FLEET WOOD
    NEVER HAS A MORE GLORIOUS ARRIVAL RECOVERY TRUCK

    Children are agog. Mums with prams retreat while dads puff out their cheeks and nod heads in synchronised appreciation. The most powerful road-legal truck in the world has made its grand entrance at Britain’s biggest, most enduring lorry themed festival. Pity it wasn’t moving under its own power.

    Caution: this story is now reversing. I’m rewinding a month, to when the TopGear offce received word from Texas that John Hennessey was sending his latest four-wheeled metaphor for America on a pond-hopping foreign exchange. A picture of the most preposterous dandelion yellow pickup truck detonated into TG’s group chat. What exactly do you do with a Dodge Ram TRX which left the factory blessed with a 702bhp Hellcat V8, went south to Hennessey boot camp and returned with a military grade off-roading upgrade and a 1,012bhp conversion?

    They call it the Mammoth 1000 TRX. An uprated supercharger that ingests more air

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