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By Alex Lloyd

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Ken Block and his 600-hp Ford Fiesta are marketing gold. His drifting exploits around city streets and various obstacle courses have been viewed tens of millions of times, and soon, Block and his Hoonigan team will be releasing their next hit, Gymkhana 7. But as is often the case with successful productions like this, simply making it happen year after year is far from the hardest part; that title lies with continuing to remain relevant and resisting going stale.
This is Block's answer: An 845-hp, all-wheel drive monster named "Hoonicorn," built around a 1965 Ford Mustang.
Staying relevant can often be as much about looking back as it is about moving forward. For Block, retro is the key theme here, mixed with a flourish of modern madness. Collaborating with fellow Monster athlete Vaughn Gittin Jr.'s tuning company RTR, Hoonicorn boasts a 410 cu-in Roush Yates V-8, good for 720 lb.-ft. of tire-melting torque, mated to a custom Sadev all-wheel drive system and a manual gearbox.
The tires, interestingly, are the same Pirelli P Zero Trofeo Rs used on the new Camaro Z/28, only featuring a "custom Ken Block compound." RTR designed the wide-body package along with Block and his Hoonigan crew, and ASD Motorsports were responsible for the various components, including roll cage and tubular chassis.
Revealed in time for this year's SEMA show, this '65 'Stang may seem familiar; it was spotted in L.A. last month doing donuts during filming. Let us know what you think: will Gymkhana 7 be Block's greatest hit yet? I know one thing, I can't wait to find out.

senor honda

Look at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfIvTB_T7As

senor honda

This is Gymkhana 7: Wild in The Streets of LA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qanlirrRWs


What happens when you give Ken Block an 845-horsepower Mustang and the streets of LA as his playground? Madness. That’s what happens. And Gymkhana 7 is that madness brought to life on film.
The whole thing starts off pretty subtly with a four-wheel drive, smoke-inducing, tire-destroying burnout in his monster Mustang. And then it continues on with drifting around food carts, donut shops, and even under a lowrider, onto the LA freeway.

senor honda

Kensington H. Blockenheimer's Gymkhana 7, more than any Gymkhana in a long time, had a sense of humor. Only once did things get dark. Real dark.

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There's Ken passing the corpse of a be-winged Subaru in the LA river.
Block, for those of you who have only followed Ken since he's been driving Fords, used to be a Subaru guy. His original Gymkhana car was a Crawford-tuned STI and he only left the company once they painfully dropped out of world rally championship competition in '08, slashing their budgets as the economy tanked.
Blocko's modern life seems very happy with the Blue Oval. I wonder if there's some pride in showing his Scoobie roots in his newest vid.
But that's just the one dark moment (be it dark humor or whatever) in Gymkhana 7. What other little references did you spot?

senor honda

When it was sitting still
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN_o6H3P9EM

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Spy shots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=690bTvvTXHY

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GK7 is LA, This was Gymkhana 5 San Francisco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_HT4z7-tOA

cpt odbvious

Garbage.

Brandon@fattysmotorsports

Now that is what a drift car should look like!

senor honda

Brandon,
I agree. What I like about the car is that instead of the normal sideways drifting,
Ken Block is drifting the car BACKWARDS through a lot of the turns!