As a nod to Dr. Emmett from Back to the Future, the brochure states “Wherever we’re going we don’t have roads”.
Prodrive can help you find your Porsche 911 Safari / Dakar supercar if you are tired of waiting. The Hunter is essentially a road-going version the BRX Hunter T1+ Dakar Rally vehicle. While it retains most of the appearance of the competition model, it is able to produce more power than the class regulations.
The Hunter’s heart is actually a Ford-supplied, 3.5-liter V6 engine. Prodrive has tweaked it to produce more than 600 horsepower and 700 Newton-meters (516 pounds-feet), of torque. The twin-turbo engine allows the supercar to reach 62 mph (100 km/h), from a standing stop in just four seconds. It can reach speeds of almost 186 mph (300 km/h) flat out.
For a car with huge 35-inch offroad tires, which are primarily designed for rough roads and not smooth tarmac, the maximum speed is amazing. Street-oriented rubber might be able to reach the maximum speed.
Prodrive Hunter is an adventure vehicle that features a double-wishbone suspension front, rear and with 400 millimeters (15.7 inch) of travel. This is 50mm (nearly 2 inches) more than the Dakar-spec vehicle.
Prodrive fitted the Hunter’s six-speed paddle-shift gearbox with all of its power to a four wheel-drive system. The beast can carry 480 liters (127 gal) of fuel and has adjustable dampers. It is equipped with 8.5Jx172 forged alloy wheels and six-piston calipers, paired with vented disks as part of the race-spec brake system.
The Prodrive Hunter isn’t cheap, as you may have already guessed. The Prodrive Hunter costs PS1.25M ($1.63M at the current exchange rate), plus taxes. Production in Banbury, UK is limited to 25 copies. The first copy has been sold to Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa of Bahrain. Quelle surprise…
The Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato, Porsche 911 Safari / Dakar and Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato will likely be significantly cheaper. However, we’ll wait to see if they can match the Hunter’s all terrain capabilities. Prodrive chairman David Richards described it as the “Ferrari of the desert” in an interview with Autocar.
Fun fact: The car’s brochure contains the famous Back to the Future line “Wherever we are going, we don’t need roads.” Indeed!