Further development, including recessing the turbo chargers back under the hood later reverted and different treatments of the front lower lip and leading edge of the front fender. Also starting to look at exhaust outlets at the front fender, just like the Hoonicorn at this point. However, I was really pleased to see there were only a few detail changes to the final design compared to these last renders.
Builder, Detroit Speed, did an absolutely amazing Job on the build. Body: Ford F with chassis design, engineering, hand-hammered military- grade aluminum bodywork, and fabrication by Detroit Speed, in Mooresville, NC.
Overall design and styling dictated by Block and his team at Hoonigan. Note: Livery was by the Hoonigan Team. And since Subaru had just announced a new body style for the WRX, there was a reason to start fresh with a whole new car. This was a full-blown race car built by Crawford Performance with a lot of rally technology stuffed in.
At the time, this car seemed blisteringly fast with a sub second time. Scotto says: This five-door Fiesta took the idea of a Gymkhana special to a new level. It was the only Fiesta or Focus to have a longitudinal engine and was the first car to use our signature custom handbrake.
We even had the hubs made to fit our Volk TE37s from the Subaru. We were supposed to shoot in Detroit but red tape forced a move to the Autodromo in France. On the first stunt, a tire-compound mix-up sent the car into the wall. It took two trips to France to get it done. Scotto says: The RX43 was not a Gymkhana special. At the time, M-Sport was only building stage-rally cars, but they took on this project as a test bed for their upcoming Rallycross platform.
To make it pop, we mounted special lights to all of our primary cameras. Gymkhana 6 was slated be the Hoonicorn in LA, but build delays forced us to push it back to Gymkhana 7. The Hoonicorn was originally going to be a Ford Maverick, but we came to our senses. It ended up doing everything for the series we could imagine, including arguably starting the whole turbos-through-the-hood trend with the Hoonicorn V2 [shown]. It was built to handle Gymkhana drift work, but it manages rallycross and stage-rally competition equally well.
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