Remember that feeling when you picked up your new car? Fresh out the showroom or not, the excitement, satisfaction, and temptation to unleash its abilities and get to know your new toy is one of the best petrolhead feelings out there.

Now imagine said new motor is a 10,000bhp National Hot Rod Association funny car capable of acceleration that’d make Major Tim Peake’s eyes water. That’d inspire a reasonably giddy reaction? Would it not? Over to 16-time NHRA champion John Force (cool name level: pro), and his astoundingly placid assessment of his new time travel-chasing company car.

“With all the assistance from Chevrolet, it not only looks great, it’s designed to perform better than anything we’ve had before, with a shape that should help us get down the track quicker and with greater stability.”

Er, yes John. Are you sure you don’t just want to talk about the fact your new car will get to 330mph from standstill in a fraction of the time it’s just taken to read this sentence?

The bodyshell, such as it is, apes the look of the current Chevrolet Camaro, but it’s a sticker job more than any attempt to actually pretend to be a Hertz airport rental. The huge front splitter and rear wing do promise to keep John and his new car stuck to the ground when tearing a hole through the space/time continuum.

What a machine. It could only come from the ‘home of the brave’, couldn’t it?