When engineers get to let loose on an unregulated project, things happen. In 1971 Ford unveiled the SuperVan, which blended the chassis and midmounted 400-horsepower V8 engine with the body of a first-generation , resulting in silly looks and a top speed of 150 mph. It was followed in 1984 by the SuperVan 2, which had a more custom fiberglass body based on the Mark 2 Transit face-lift placed on top of the monocoque and 582-hp V8 from the Cosworth C100 — it hit 174 mph. Then there was the SuperVan 3 in 1994, featuring the looks of the second-gen Transit (called the Mark 3) and an absurd 641-hp Cosworth V8 shared with Formula 1 cars.

All three SuperVans have been paraded around the UK and other countries as excellent promotional tools for the Ford brand and its racing partners, but despite two more generations of Transit van coming out since then, there hasn’t been another SuperVan. Well, at least not until now, as the brand unveiled the new Ford Pro Electric SuperVan at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this week, and it’s the craziest SuperVan yet.

As you might expect from its name, the new SuperVan has a fully electric powertrain and is loosely based on the , making this the first SuperVan to be based on one of Ford’s smaller van offerings. The SuperVan has a 50-kilowatt-hour battery pack and four electric motors, giving it all-wheel drive and 1,973 horsepower. That’s more than triple what the SuperVan 3 made, and it’s almost 400 hp more than a . Ford says the SuperVan can hit 60 mph in under 2 seconds, and the battery can be fully recharged in 45 minutes.

The new SuperVan uses the floorplan from the production E-Transit Custom combined with a custom steel spaceframe and composite body panels. It uses a double wishbone suspension setup at all four corners, and the SuperVan has racing-spec subframes and brakes. There are five selectable drive modes — Drag, Drift, Rally, Road and Track — and the regenerative brakes have three different adjustable settings. The SuperVan even has a “tire cleaning mode” that engages the brakes on one axle while spinning the other, resulting in a huge burnout that helps to clean and warm up the tires.

But maybe even crazier than the SuperVan’s performance is how it looks. While it is recognizable as a van, kind of, the SuperVan has superwide fenders, huge air intakes, an intense rear spoiler and diffuser, new wheels fitted with racing slicks and angular headlights connected by a lightbar. The most striking design element is the rear dorsal fin, which is created by what would be the side window panels flowing inward, creating a V shape where the bodywork meets the rear wing. But the rearmost pillar remains intact, which gives the SuperVan the most absurd flying buttress effect I’ve ever seen, reminiscent of what’s on the hypercar.