Welcome to Hoonigan and Subaru Motorsports’ latest one-off: a modified Subaru GL Wagon set to make a flying debut in the next instalment of Gymkhana. Travis Pastrana of course, takes over helmsmith duties from Ken Block, a man so allergic to straight lines he travels everywhere sideways.

It’s called The Family Huckster, which suggests it’s a gentle situational comedy about a family of plucky but downtrodden traders. It’s powered by an 862bhp engine and gets an active rear wing, which suggests you might want to get the family an Uber.

About the flying bit. “The GL Wagon is an iconic Subaru that I thought would be pretty rad to see flying through the air,” explains Pastrana. The team took a 1983 GL Wagon – one of the most unassuming family boxes available in the Eighties – and slotted in a flat-four Scooby motor modified to punch out that incredible horsepower figure.

Then comes a sequential six-speed gearbox, long-travel WRC-spec suspension and a new diff package from Pastrana’s Mt Washington Hill Climb run. The drivetrain is packed inside a tubular spaceframe shod entirely in carbon fibre body panels.

Added to this carbon fibre suit are a few concessions to aerodynamics, including front and rear hydraulic aero flaps on the arches, a carbon fibre roof rack designed to direct air into a roof-mounted NACA duct, and as mentioned, an electro-pneumatically controlled active rear wing.

Quoted:
Totally agree on your last part. If I had big money to spend, something amazing would get built.

A custom one of a kind beast would be way more interesting than a factory supercar.

Quoted:
Totally agree on your last part. If I had big money to spend, something amazing would get built.

A custom one of a kind beast would be way more interesting than a factory supercar.