Check out Ken Block’s Fox Body “Hoonifox” Gymkhana Concept Car

Stunt and race car driver Ken Block has amassed quite the collection of special vehicles for his Gymkhana series. He’s driven everything from a 1978 Escort Mk2 to a 1965 Mustang to a lowered F-150 pickup truck, all tricked out with crazy body mods and high output engines. Now, he could soon be adding a Fox body Mustang to his fleet of fast Fords.

The so-called “Hoonifox” was designed in collaboration with movie and video game car designer Ash Thorp (who also helped create the new Batmobile). Normally, Hoonigan Racing wouldn’t show off a new car design until it premieres in one of their action video clips, but due to the COVID-19 lockdown, they decided to share some concept images of this car earlier in the process.

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I love how the car takes the boxy and angular look of the Fox body ‘Stang, and takes them to the max, with gigantic overfenders, super-wide tires, a massive hexagonal hood scoop, louvers just about everywhere, and a sharp, DTM-inspired rear wing. Block’s goal was to take the primal racing sensibilities of the Hoonicorn Mustang, but dressed up in iconic ’80s styling. I think they definitely hit the mark.

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Block was joined by Thorp and fellow Hoonicorn Brian “el Gigante” Scotto for an extensive discussion about the design of the Hoonifox, and it’s well worth watching if you’ve got 20 minutes to spare.

Block definitely wants to build the Hoonifox Mustang, though it’s not clear when or if we’ll get to see it in a Gymkhana video. Given the amount of work that went into the concept design, I think there’s a very good chance that will happen down the road.