In 2017 I penned a little April Fool’s piece about FCA jamming the Hellcat Hemi into everything within the portfolio at the time. And since then…well, see for yourself:

• Ram Trucks: Rebel TRX due soon.
• Jeep: Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, plus the Wrangler got the 392ci V8.
• Chrysler: 300C gets the 392…if you live in the Middle East or Australia only. WTF, guys?!
• Fiat? Um…how about no.

So, not everything we made a crack about happened, but much more than we expected became reality. With everybody else scrambling to plug in the electric motor as a way of looking woke enough that the guy down the street with the beautifully manicured beard, dressed in oatmeal-colored clothing, doesn’t get offended, FCA simply slammed a bottle of whisky and cranked the volume up, and gearheads have been going nuts since.

But does that work for any particular kind of vehicle? Pickup trucks, muscle cars, wicked sedans…sure, there’s markets for them. A V8 Jeep is a bit strange, but what the hell, we’ll take it. But there is one FCA vehicle that never got tapped: the Pacifica. And as this latest Abimelec rendering shows, a Hellcat Pacifica is still a great concept, even though there’d be a better chance of Chad singing showtunes on Broadway than FCA cranking out a monster minivan.

But would a hot-rodded minivan work? Think about it for a second…look at the automotive design fads that have come and gone throughout the decades. Fin cars are now elegant cruisers instead of obnoxiously large barges that made fuel disappear in the blink of an eye. Hot rodded little hatchbacks and their small sedan siblings have had a huge market for years now…see “Civic SI”, “Golf GTI” and “Neon SRT-4″ to learn more. And if you haven’t seen a 302-powered Aerostar, a 350-powered Astro or that red SRT-4 powered Dodge minivan sending it’s tires straight to Valhalla, then you need to do some research.

There’s plenty more: station wagons bagged and dropped, old cop cars lifted up like some kind of moonshine prerunner build, early 1990s boxy SUV wagons turned into wicked trail rigs. We’ve come very close to cutting the roof off of a 5.0L powered late 1990s Explorer a time or two, and that’s still on the table if we find one cheap enough that runs. Lift it onto 33” tires and have a ball. That kind of thing. What would you do?