But as anyone who has driven an old hooptie with about 50 horsepower knows, you don’t actually need that much power to slide around in the dirt. That’s the whole point of driving around in the dirt. A little horsepower goes a long way. If you want to do haggard action on the street, that’s where you need power to spin a tire or four.

Then again, this modern age of factory off-road specials are built more in the vein of prerunners, Baja rigs, or sand huck kinda trucks, and these are realms where people want big power. I guess if your brim becomes flat enough and your energy drink becomes monster enough, you need five, six, seven hundred horsepower to play.

If it were me, I would be looking to the righteous guidance of the Chevy 454 SS, a street machine truck that looked low and mean and didn’t mess around with much else. But I’m not the target market!

What I really do care about, I will say, is what the TRX gets priced at. The Raptor is in the mid-50s, and the idea of a Hellcat-powered truck for that kind of money verges on a threat to public safety.