4x4 Magazine Australia

TO HELL AND BACK

THERE’S no such thing as too much grunt, whether it’s that Pro Comp street machine you’re building, that ultimate off-roader you dream of, or something that combines the two like this fire-burnt orange, six-pawed brute of a JK Wrangler dual-cab ute.

THIS BRILLIANT EXAMPLE OF ENGINEERING ART UPS THE ADMIRATION LEVELS

There’s really no easy way to describe this thing. The end result of Russell Simpson and his team’s 1000-plus man hours (and close to 18 months) toiling in the Exotic Custom Motorsport (ECM) workshop is really in a world of its own when it comes to not only impressive engineering but also the fact that something so monstrous was even an idea to start with. That’s not a complaint, either. Shoehorning a big-power engine into a 4x4 is not new – hell, we’ve

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