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.

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.

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.

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.

Whatever your taste in Land Rovers, there’s one annual publication you can’t afford to miss. The Land Rover Yearbook is an eclectic blend of classics, modified motors, new Landies, product reviews, travelogues and more.

This year’s Yearbook includes a range of 90s and 110s that have been brought back to life with a twist. And a 107” Station Wagon, too, restored and modified into a Series I like no other. If you prefer your classics to be more, well, classic, you’ll find an 88” Series IIA rebuilt with a devotion to originality that borders on the fanatical. And how about one of the very earliest Freelanders? Not everyone’s idea of a classic, but everything about Land Rover’s history since then says it’s one of the most significant vehicles the company has ever made.

The Discovery, for example, was a truck in the pre-Freelander era. Now it’s a premium SUV. We’ve tested the current model in entry-level D250 form in a bid to find out whether you really need to stretch all the way to a top-spec engine. And we’ve driven the basic Defender 90, too – steel wheels and all. Not just on any test drive, either, but a mighty green lane trip on some of the best trails in the country.

That’s one kind of travel story. Getting up close to Africa’s wildlife is definitely another, and so too is the Dakar Classic. Loads of historic Range Rovers and Series trucks were involved in this marathon desert rally – yet not one of them had a British driver. So be warned spend a day or two poring over the 2023 Land Rover Yearbook and you might come away on a mission to put that right!

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