Thanks to Subaru, this winter the DC team will be well outfitted when they visit the MTN.LAB! The company chose to give two fine autos to DC, placing them at DC's private snowboarding R and D facility (and Ken Block's private house) for the team to use.

Ken has kept a personal Subaru WRX STi in the garage at the MTN.LAB for years, relying on its 4WD, a system Subaru is world renowned for, to get around Utah's icy snowy roads. With the unique Subaru AWD system that comes standard in all their cars, traveling up and down to the MTN.LAB has been a cinch for Ken. Now that Subaru has donated two cars to the LAB, DC's team has cars to use too.

About the donation of the two cars, Ken said, "With Travis [Pastrana] and my own factory rally racing team deal, it's a real natural fit for Subaru to give us the cars for the team to use at the MTN.LAB. They are a great company to work with, and there simply isn't a better car for the conditions and terrain around the LAB."

The first Subaru is a 2007 WRX STi, the same high-performance, 300-plus horsepower model that Ken and his SRT USA teammate Travis Pastrana pilot in the Rally America National Championship (with a few performance mods, of course). The other is a 2008 Outback XT. Both whips are fully loaded, including all-wheel drive and GPS navigation. They also have custom 18-inch black rims and complete Yakama racks, meaning they're fully equipped to take the team and their equipment wherever they want to go.

"The new cars are so fun to drive," said Sean Lake, who was at the MTN.LAB last week and was one of the first DC staffers to try out the cars. "They handle the icy roads super good. Basically, they're exactly what we need to get around up there and make road trips with the team to the other resorts near the LAB like Park City."

Thank you to Subaru for the cars! Check out more on their complete line of automobiles at www.subaru.com.

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