Watch the 2,000bhp Ford Supervan 4.2 race around the Top Gear track: can you guess the time?

The Ford Supervan 4.2 is, in essence, a ‘lightly modified’ electric Ford Transit with four motors and over 2,000bhp. It has carbon ceramic brakes and forged magnesium wheels and slick tyres, which means either The Stig is about to break the world record for most Amazon parcels delivered in a minute, or we’re about to see the laws of physics bent in new and interesting ways.

The ‘4.2’ denotes this as a lighter, higher downforce version of Supervan 4, redesigned to dominate Pikes Peak and, more recently, break the Bathurst Lap Record and win the 2024 Goodwood shootout in the hands of Romain Dumas.

It’s the newest member of an absurd Supervan family that stretches all the way back to the GT40-based original in the 1970s, followed up with F1-engined monsters in the 1980s and 1990s. Working in the Supervan’s favour is downforce. Lots of it.

Thanks to an outrageous front spoiler and rear wing there’s almost 2,000kg at 150mph, and because Supervan 4.2 also weighs 400kg less than Supervan 4 (thanks mostly to the magic of carbon fibre), its dampers should be able to get its mass under control quickly, when it hits the wide variety of lumps, dips and cracks the Top Gear test track has to offer. Having said that, it is double the height of a GT3 racecar, so the centre of gravity isn’t exactly ideal...

Are you ready to find out where this highly potent brick sits in the pantheon of Top Gear greats?