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Thumbing through the last issue of 0-60, one of the car-guyiest car mags around, I turned the page and saw an image that stopped me cold. Mother of pearl, a Subaru rally car flying through the air at a snowboard park. How is that even possible? We've all seen imagery of airborne rally cars, but the cruising altitude is usually just a couple feet. These shots depict serious flight. General Lee, Bo and Luke Duke flight. $150,000 worth of machinery being treated as the Greatest. Snowmobile. Evar.
It turns out 0-60 contributor and driver extrodinaire Ken Block was behind the wheel of that car, flying off jumps intended for snowboarders with 3,000 pounds of machinery as part of the shoot for the DC Shoes production MTN.LAB 1.5. Hit the jump for more, and to see some of the jaw-dropping video.
[Source: 0-60]
Two days in New Zealand with cameras sprinkled about and helicopter fly-bys nets you a supremely well done video. Who hasn't wanted to be this antisocial with their car, too? There's plenty of scenes where the choreography between car and snowboarder is worthy of Busby Berkeley, but the kicker is the end. Huge ramp, huge landing ramp, too much speed. The result, great images, but a busted up rally car and a fractured vertebrae. Ouch. Check the video from 0-60 below, and there's three more at DC's website.













Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Mobius_1 @ Jan 24th 2008 10:23PM
Copyright killed video star??? Can't see the video :(
Anyways, this guy's got balls
Hiro Nakamura: Flying Man!!!
Mobius_1 @ Jan 24th 2008 10:31PM
My bad, Youtube ain't working for me at all :( no flying subie...
Punkcrisis @ Jan 24th 2008 10:24PM
nICE! that was pretty sweet wish I would have been there to see it myself!
Franz @ Jan 24th 2008 10:42PM
I've seen this guy in action and he's absolutely nuts! Always catching crazy air in that Subaru. He's the founder of DC Shoes... the guy must have balls the size of grapefruits. Wicked video.
Guenther @ Jan 25th 2008 10:30AM
Giant citrus balls would suck when you're strapped in with a submarine belt.
MemphisNET @ Jan 24th 2008 11:18PM
Wow *laughs*
Colby @ Jan 24th 2008 11:24PM
Reminds me of Evil Knievel. Evil could have used a dirt bike to do all of his amazing jumps, and it would have been easier, but he used a heavy Harley Davidson instead. This dude uses a Subaru, he could go WAY BIGGER in a Trophy Truck....
914RSR @ Jan 24th 2008 11:28PM
"0-60, one of the car-guyiest car mags around."
I guess you have to have friends working on the magazine to see it. For me this magazine is still terrible.
Dan Roth @ Jan 24th 2008 11:31PM
chacun à son goût - I dig it, and it has nothing to do with knowing anyone over there.
Daniel @ Jan 24th 2008 11:40PM
2:02 is hilarious.
Great vid
kd @ Jan 24th 2008 11:53PM
This is hardly recent news. I saw pictures of this in a snowboard magazine in December, they had a bunch of photos of snowboarders beside the car in mid-air.
allonblack @ Jan 25th 2008 1:03AM
You want a cookie?
why not the LS2LS7? @ Jan 25th 2008 1:24AM
Apparently the mechanism where things are automatically removed from the internet after you view them has failed. Call the Geek Squad and see if they can straighten it out for you.
tankd0g @ Jan 25th 2008 9:45AM
I thought I already saw this video linked at autoblog last month but it must have been somewhere else.
moophisto @ Jan 25th 2008 8:55AM
heh, that was actually posted here in November already
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/06/ken-block-jumps-his-subaru-wrx-sti-rally-car-in-the-snow-for-mag/
video links were in the comments as well.
cool, but still - maybe Dan should've 'used the search function' ;)
Dan Roth @ Jan 25th 2008 10:17AM
The story has been around a little while, magazine lead times and all, but the videos at the DC website and the one that I embedded have just recently been finished. The other videos are *not* the same, and while they show cool stuff, they're really just news standups.
They're not on YouTube as of yet - I used the "search" function. ;)
moophisto @ Jan 25th 2008 1:54PM
@Dan
I was referring to the search function on autoblog, since the article sounds as if you didn't know you had a post on that already ;)
That video sure is new and absolutely cool, but I guess many other regular readers might've wondered as well, why the article makes the event appear as if it were never mentioned here before :]
Vexorg @ Jan 25th 2008 4:02AM
I'm pretty sure that could probably be described as "sick".
Scorch @ Jan 25th 2008 4:07AM
That should be a Subaru commercial. That is just plain awesome.
DJ_Swammi @ Jan 25th 2008 7:53AM
Makes this Subie fan-boy happy.