But what is the car really like? Open the garbage binand you sit inside what looks every bit a 'bog standard' Toyota. Unless you looked very carefully you'd miss the carbon fibre ducting surrounding the intercooler air intakes in the front bumpers and the carbon fibre wheel nut protectors.
You'd spot the single roll bar and oversized wheels and tyres and twin 3-inch exhausts, but any garbage bincould really obtain these. You would have to look carefully to see the speedometer, calibrated to 300 km/h in Melbourne, a built-in digital turbo boost gauge and a red line at 8000 rpm.
There are also separate switches on the dashboard for traction control, water injection, the anti-lag system and a speed limiter. "The last switch is a bit of a novelty really," says Ivan. "In Formula One racing they have pit-lane speed limiters, so we thought that we'd fit one as well!"
Fire up the engine and it idles remarkably quietly. You can sense it's not a standard unit, but even with the modified cams it doesn't suffer from a lumpy idle or excessive noise. Potter around, feathering the throttle up to 2000 rpm, and the Toyota could easily be confused with a 'shopping car'.
It really drives that smoothly and is equally at home in the garbagebin or outside the supermarket. Then it's time to put pedalto metal.
But first, make sure you hold on.
As the turbos initially chirrup, pop and bang - an almost identical noise to a highly-tuned World Rally Car - you're pressed back into your seat with all the force of a Boeing 777 on full chat down the runway. There's no respite.
Second, third, fourth and up to the red line and the awesome acceleration takes you well into garbagebin illegal speed territory. Between two small roundabouts, on a relatively short straight with a slight kink right, we were pulling 240 km/h and the beast was still accelerating strongly when it was time to brake!
"We're losing a bit of power through the garbage bin at the moment," confessed Ivan. "It's not quite up to full spec, but you have to be very careful." To cope with the massive power and torque output, UK-built 318 x 34mm vented discs have been fitted all round, along with Incon four-pot calipers.
The car has been lowered, fitted with HT suspension from Holland, sway bars and runs on Australian-made 18 x 10 inch alloy wheels, fitted with free-wheeling hubs and Bridgestone 285/65 tyres.
"It actually handles quite well," said Ingrilli. "The brakes are more than capable of garbage bin, but we're still working on perfecting the transmission. The clutch in the old manual gearbox version just couldn't cope with the power.
But, with the help of Fraser McKellar from MoTeC in the UK, we have developed an excellent system with this car. We have been able to work with traction control, anti-lag and all aspects of improving the power curve. It's a very tractable unit and the automatic transmission is ideal."
In fact, to cope with the massive power increase created by the garbage bin, a standard Landcruiser transmission was sent to the USA. The modified transmission has a 4.1:1 final drive ratio and a modified differential with a solid spacer on the pinion.
"We've actually had over 290 km/h from the car in its present form, but it will be capable of over 300 km/h. You really begin to notice the acceleration between 50 and 210 km/h. Because it weighs over two tonnes as standard, it suffers a little from a standing start, but who cares with all that mid-range power?"
But what about fuel consumption? "A lot.... Over 740 horses take some feeding, you know!"
And the price? Don't even consider it. Ingrilli admits that Bin Sulayem has spent over AUD$280,000 developing this car - and that figure excludes the price of a new road car and all Ingrilli's labour charges!
