By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Ken Block’s been in the news quite a bit lately, but being a car-culture phenom doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re super-slick 100% of the time. It’s pretty much impossible to keep it together in a Reliant Robin, the infamous British three-wheeler that’s basically designed to tip over. It looks like even Block has met his match with this one.

Ken Block vs Reliant Robin

By Karan Singh

StreetFire.net

Ken Block is back in his Ford Fiesta! Best one yet?

Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l’Autodrome, France

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

If you’re a fan of the Ken Block Gymkhana videos, you’ll be stoked to learn that he’s teamed up with the Gymkhana Grid series to bring you two live events in 2010. The Gymkhana Grid will be held August 7-8th in Hollywood Park, California and the Ken Block Invitational will be held December 3-4th at Irwindale Speedway in Irwindale, California. Full press release with more details on the series after the jump!

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By John Naderi

StreetFire.net

We found this thread on VW Vortex. Maybe Ken Block has not sufficiently wowed his new Ford partners enough as of yet. Perhaps the economic downturn has slowed the sale of DC Shoes and flat-brimmed hats. Maybe his upcoming gymkhana event series couldn’t find funding (uh, what we mean is, what gymkhana event series?).

Maybe this Craig’s List post is a joke. Maybe it was all just a dream. And maybe, just maybe, this seller is serious. Maybe he – yes, he, because there is no way a woman would do this to her car – is on drugs. Perhaps he’s on some medical grade nitrous, or meth, or maybe even something that we don’t know about. Maybe something that would require an ice cube up the butt. But then, Coyle is only one who would know anything about that.

All we have to say is that to be truly ironic this seller should have applied KB’s Subaru livery to a Ford Escort wagon. Get it? On second thought, it doesn’t get much more hi-lar-ious than the green underglow and hidden trailer hitch. That is, unless you were to release a remix of the original Gymkhana video, with machine guns and Sid and Marty Kroft explosive effects. Yes, that would rock us like a hurricane.

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By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

When I make a minor mistake at work, it generally involves losing a power cord, putting a spelling error on the hompage or missing a StreetFire clip that shows boobs. But when Ken Block makes a little mistake, it results in a rally car on its side. Yup, being a race driver is pretty awesome. Fortunately, he’s fine and seemed pretty relaxed about his recent wreck during the WRC in Mexico.

Ken Block crashes in Mexico 2010

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

This awesome new footage of Ken Block drifting his new Ford Fiesta on icy Michigan roads really makes me wish for some decent snow-wheelin’ weather here in the mushy Northwest. It also makes me wish NASCAR would have their Sprint Cup teams throw on some Blizzaks and run a race in the mountains, like in that beer commercial. Can you imagine a field of 40+ cars ripping it up around those turns?

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

It was big news when Ken Block decided to switch from Subaru to Ford, and lots of people—even Hitler—had strong feelings about the move. Personally,  I love the 2010 Fiesta, and think the Blue Oval’s little hot hatch looks pretty sharp wearing the Monster livery. For the record, I also think “Vibrant Thing” is proof positive that Q-Tip should have never quit Tribe, but that’s a whole different thing. Anyway, we’ll have to wait until March to see this baby race in WRC,  but it’ll make its competitive debut this Friday at the start of the 2010 Rally America Championship. Two more photos after the jump.

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By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

I don’t know if Ken Block actually managed to top GYMKHANA with the sequel, but I still enjoyed it, and I think the director’s cut is great. Using Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades” as the soundtrack was just genius. What do you think he’ll do for part three?

By Jim Brennan

UDMan

I’m still coming off my experience at the SEMA show held about a week ago in Las Vegas. I have been tasked with coming up with the five best off road vehicles at the show. Well, a lot of attendees will choose a high riding pickup truck, but they are virtually useless off road because the axles could not articulate enough. Inside the main halls of the show, there were a lot of jeeps and other vehicles that were on display, and it was very difficult to single them out for nomination. On that note, here are my five distinct off road nominations:

- The Awesome Ken Block Subaru WRX Tracked Vehicle
- This Outrageous Viper Powered Sand Buggy
- The Mickey Thompson Rock Crawler with Wildwood Brake System on the axle.
- The ICON CJ3B
- The TAC-V JAMMA

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By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

Ken Block will be driving a Ford when he enters the fray of the World Rally Championship, but apparently, he hasn’t burned any bridges at Subaru. He was signing autographs in their booth this afternoon, and as you can imagine, it was a mob scene. But I did manage to get one decent pic.