Gymkhana 2025 + BTS

I love that the gymkhana series, made popular by Ken Block, has continued with Travis Pastrana. This years video features a sick car and jaw dropping stunts. That is every year, but they keep pushing the creative and death defying boundaries. Almost more interesting is the behind the scenes for the build out of this years car, based on the Subaru BRAT (Bi-drive Recreational All-terrain Transporter).

The interesting nugget about the “chicken tax” seats in the bed was right up my alley.

The Chicken Tax is a 25 percent tariff on light trucks (and originally on potato starch, dextrin, and brandy) imposed in 1964 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken.

From 1978 to 1987, the Subaru BRAT carried two rear-facing seats (with seatbelts and carpeting) in its rear bed to secure classification as a “passenger vehicle” and not as a light truck.