If you've ever faced the prospect of driving through snow in a Subaru WRX STI with stock summer tires, you will really appreciate the TRAX STI. And you will also realize that Ken Block's chutzpah is bottomless. He'll try anything once. Now he's gone and put snowcat tracks on his STI rally car.
This is the preview video of a test run near his Utah mountain home. A longer, more death-defying video is undoubtedly in the works. 
In addition to the special (and specially awesome at that) tracks, the TRAX has a reworked suspension (shocker) with Group N-type dampers made by the UK-based company EXE-TC, along with a version of the 2.5-liter turbo boxer four good for 400 hp -- and, no doubt, a great deal of torque. The transmission is a 5-speed dog 'box.
Not shown here is the optional sleigh that hitches to the back of the TRAX STI and transports up to four snowboarders and their boards. Snowboarding, you'll be unsurprised to learn, is another of Block's passions.
powell_jr says:
04:57 AM, 11/ 3/09
I'm glad he videos everything so the rest of us can enjoy his wealth.
brn says:
07:37 AM, 11/ 3/09
Those kinds of vehicles are cool and all, but the video didn't showcase his skills much. I didn't see anything that any of us couldn't do.
Also, the music sucked.
rick8365 says:
07:43 AM, 11/ 3/09
This guy does nothing but have fun....good for him.
felonious says:
08:52 AM, 11/ 3/09
Ken Block is amazing. I'm glad people like him exist in the world.
inlinesix says:
10:00 AM, 11/ 3/09
looks like fun.
Murtman says:
10:21 AM, 11/ 3/09
I'll bet that if Scatman Crothers was driving that he could have avoided an axe to the chest...
firstwagon says:
06:29 PM, 11/ 3/09
Murtman
My favourite horror movie.