Climbkhana Is At Last Here In All Its Tyre-Shredding Glory

Ken Block's latest celebration of drift has been worth the wait, with eight glorious minutes of Pikes Peak tyre shredding to enjoy

Matt Robinson

26 Sep 2017

We’ve been waiting almost a year for Ken Block’s Climbkhana film. For whatever reason it’s taken an age to edit, so has it been worth it? You betcha.

In fact, I’m going to stick my neck out and say it’s probably the best video Block has ever done. The cinematography is stunning, there are props aplenty for the 1400bhp ‘Hoonicorn V2’ to drift around, and there’s even what looks like a cheeky reference to the famous Ari Vatanen ‘Climb Dance’ video shot at Pikes Peak back in the late 1980s.

Sit back, relax, hit play, and enjoy eight or so minutes of tyre smoke and V8 noise.

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

That six in way good

I lost all enthusiam for the Hoonicorn after learning that the car started as a very good condition, seemingly all stock, original Mustang. Reduced to nothing more than it’s shell.
(https://jalopnik.com/ken-blocks-845hp-hoonicorn-started-life-as-this-65-must-1671291554)

Considering you can buy brand new, bare shells for Mustangs, built as accurate patterns to the originals, it pains me knowing they tore up a clean, original car, only for a part they could readily have bought with a quick Google search

Thanks for that link, had to read it…

Ken Block: The Hoonicorn, or how to take an original ‘66 Mustang in good condition, then destroy it to get an AWD Mustang because he can’t handle anything not being AWD or he’ll spin out