I can do that in a Trabant
(Albeit a HEAVILY modified Trabant, using all the tricks in Gran Turismo and Need for Speed, and the Fast and The Burberry, etc etc)
Icelandic hillclimbing involves charging towards a cliff in a V8 on wheels and the yanks seem to go more for the same thing without the cliff in the form of rock crawling.
I thought this was as stupid as monster trucks but last summer I saw some of this on tv from some Scandinavian championship (!?) and it was really entertaining. And the engine sound...