The Roush F-150 NITEMARE is a 650bhp pick-up

Hennessey isn’t the only company pumping pick-up trucks full of more righteous, American horsepower than they can or were indeed designed to handle. Roush is at it too, and this is its latest creation – the appropriately-named, grammatically irritating ‘ROUSH F-150 NITEMARE’.

To the standard 5.0-litre V8 the Michigan-based tuner has fitted a hefty supercharger, which along with calibration changes means it now makes 650bhp and 650 lb ft. No doubt that makes it indecently rapid. At least for something that weighs as much as Belgium.

Roush then adds either a cat-back or switchable active exhaust, whose loud, quiet, and custom modes can be changed with a mobile phone app or knob on the dash.

Various aesthetic modifications – mostly stickers & badges, plus a custom grille – round-out the $16,999 option package, which comes with a three-year/36,000-mile warranty and is available through select Ford main dealers. Yes, main dealers. But only in the good ol’ US of A, mind. Can you imagine this thing trundling down Broadway high street? Thought not.