Yep, this is a six-wheeled Ford Bronco pickup

Apocalypse Manufacturing. Quite the name for a car company, isn’t it? 

But then, the Florida-based firm doesn’t exactly build your common or garden crossovers. Take its latest product as an example – this is the Dark Horse, a six-wheeled, six-wheel drive 400bhp Ford Bronco pickup truck. 

This is the first one it has built, and if you feel a 6x6 would suit your lifestyle (what on earth are you doing?) then it’ll be up for auction at the Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach sale in April. 

To create the ominously-named Dark Horse, Apocalypse chops up a Bronco and adds nearly a metre of extra steel and fibreglass body panelling, plus its patented middle tandem axle. The end result is a 5.7m long behemoth with a 1.5m pickup bed. The Bronco’s standard rag top roof is replaced with a removable fibreglass hardtop unit, and there’s a four-inch suspension lift, as well as 20-inch wheels and 37-inch Patagonia tyres. The rear four wheels are always powered, and the fronts can come into play if you’re seriously stuck. Although mounting a tall kerb might be the most off-roading that any of these do in their lifetimes. 

The Bronco’s removable doors are still operational, and Apocalypse has retrimmed the interior in a weatherproof ‘marine grade’ leather.

There’s rumours of a 700bhp Coyote V8 upgrade in future, but for now the Bronco’s 2.7-litre twin-turbo V6 is treated to an ECU remap, larger injectors and a new exhaust to reach that 400bhp threshold. 

What do we think, folks? This or the Next Level Jeep Gladiator 6x6 we drove recently?