Mohammad Bin Suleyamz Land Cruiser
The creation of Mohammed's former full-time Australian engineer Ivan Ingrilli, this beast develops a monstrous 740hp at 6500 rpm and offers a staggering 1114Nm of torque, despite losing around 70hp with a minor transmission niggle when we tested it out! And even so, 0-100 comes up in around 5 seconds...
"Basically Mohammed wanted a fast road four-wheel drive car, capable of 300 km/h," chuckles Ingrilli, the former manager at Sulayem's Dubai-based Bin Sulayem Performance who now runs Arabian Automotive Technologies in nearby Sharjah. "He wanted it to look absolutely standard as well, so I sat down with him and we discussed a suitable specification. It took about a year from the initial discussions to the spec we have now and it's not quite up to full trim. We are still working on a lot of modifications to the transmission and the engine to make it even quicker."
Based upon a brand new white road car, it's visually different from the outside only by the installation of a single hoop roll bar and a bonnet featuring a Pajero scoop and Ford Escort Cosworth vents. And this Landcruiser even utilises the base 4.5-litre petrol engine from the standard car. But with the exception of the standard interior and facia, that's where the similarities end. The highly-tuned unit is mated to a pair of roller-bearing Garrett turbochargers working with twin intercoolers (each fed air by carbon fibre ducting), water injection, and MoTeC direct-fire management. The head has been ported and features enlarged inlet and exhaust valves, while below that there is a full steel balanced bottom end. The monster was especially built to Sulayem's wishes with assistance from technical teams in Australia, the UK and the USA.
Its sister car, a slower example which still sits proudly outside the workshop, just wasn't quick enough. It ran with a single turbo, manual gearbox and was only good for 640hp!