This Overland Edition uses the TRX bed rack as a base, topped with a hard-shell rooftop tent. There’s a large awning for shade and shelter plus you get extra tanks for fuel and water. You can tell this isn’t an English conversion since stock items include a 28in splitting axe, shovel and LED perimeter illumination. Weirdly, there’s no shotgun as standard. However, there’s even a retractable
ladder so you can clamber up to bed but the bears can’t, unless they’ve been watching closely. Frankly, there’s so much rear space that you wouldn’t actually need to head out to the great outdoors at all. Simply park up somewhere safe in the city and you could have a party back there. But if you did want to do some exploring, or you did some rugged outdoorsy job, then this big rig,
easil capable of carr ing five people in some comfort, would get you there and back, however far away it was. So, which is better – to travel hopefully, or to arrive? The Hennessey Mammoth 1000 TRX Overland Edition, with a name as long as its wheelbase, means you can get a decent dopamine hit for both halves of that question.
And if a tent on top doesn’t do it for you… APPARENTLY A LOT OF HENNESSEY PICK-UP CUSTOMERS tend to lead fairly action-packed lives. So the high-performance vehicle creators from Texas have upped their offering from ‘just’ the VelociRaptor 600 pick-up. As often with them, the base is the Ford F-150 pick-up but this time banged up to over 550bhp. But that’s not enough for action-packed owners. You can tell a lot about people by what they carry in their pick-up beds. Personally mine would probably carry a pair of La-Z-Boy chairs. Possibly a Love Chair and a MaxiComfort but don’t hold me to that. But not the loadbeds of VelociRaptor 600 owners, no sirree. They need hardcore dirt bikes. So Hennessey obliged. The Sherco Edition matches the pick-up with two Sherco enduro bikes. Sherco make the real deal, so you can have either a two-stroke or four-stroke 300cc dirt bike but naturally they’ve both been enhanced in the engine departments, much like the truck. We’ll spare you the technicalities of the bike changes since, to be honest, I don’t have a clue what a ‘perch clamp’ is and I’m not sure I want to know. However the truck has Sherco livery, six-piston Brembos and a bed rack from Risk Racing for carrying the bikes. The bed extender doubles as a loading ramp plus you even get fuel jug and mount for the bikes. Hennessey are going global with this pairing so visit HennesseyPerformance.com or ShercoUSA.com. Or just go straight to la-z-boy.co.uk.
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