But don’t let a few home comforts fool you. It still has a

full roll cage and deep bucket seats, and, mechanically, it’s undiluted from

the dune-jumping original. It uses the same 2.5-litre, five-cylinder twin-turbo

diesel engine with 305bhp that gets it from 0-62mph in 5.9 seconds. The

spaceframe chassis is made from aircraft-grade steel and the suspension and

brakes are identical to those on the race car, with double-wishbones and two

shocks per wheel.

Save for a slightly different gearlever on the five-speed

sequential ‘box, the drivetrain is exactly the same. In other words, this thing

can smash across boulders the size of small asteroids and nothing will fall

off. And if it can handle thousands of miles of maximum-speed blasts - only

118mph, thanks to close gearing - across sky-high dunes, it’ll probably cope

fine over some potholes in Bridlington.