Hoonigan GYM3

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The car started life out as a production 2011 Fiesta ST before being converted by Olsbergs MSE, a Swedish racing team founded by Swedish former rally champion Andréas Eriksson. Olsbergs’s racing pedigree is well-established in the rally world, as the group also ran Ken’s Rally America program and won gold at the X Games 15 Rally Competition in a similarly-equipped Ford Fiesta.

A regular Ford Fiesta ST of this era is powered by a 1.6-liter Ford EcoBoost turbocharged engine that puts out 180 hp with 177 lb-ft of torque. For that engine, 0-60 times are under seven seconds. This is anything but a regular Ford Fiesta ST. Under the hood of the 2,425-pound GYM3 is an Olsbergs 2000cc Duratec engine that pushes out over 600 hp and 660 ft-lb of torque at 4000 rpm through an Olsbergs MSE MakTrak six-speed paddle-shift sequential gearbox. 0-60 times here are in the two-second range. Perhaps the most astonishing point to be made about the purpose-built Olsbergs engine is that it is capable of up to 850 hp, but was limited to give Ken the torque band he needed to properly control the car. Lastly, stunt jumps and regular street bumps are handled by all-around Ohlins shock absorbers while the AP Racing 4 brakes will let you pull off those stylish handbrake turns.