We wouldn’t suggest an updated Subaru WRX STi to the average used car buyer. Especially one with a duct tape sticker on the dashboard informing the driver that the “fuel tank has a hole (sic).” This isn’t your kid’s slammed and straight piped Impreza, though. Ken Block’s race-ready 2002 WRX STi was instrumental in his first rally victory in 2006. It’s also the car in which he set a world record by jumping 171 feet on the Discovery Channel show Stunt Junkies. The car is being sold by Block himself, according to the listing on Wall Street Motorsport, with the buyer’s fee going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Despite the fact that Block used the Impreza for an insane stunt on TV, it is a genuine Subaru race car that is now antique. It’s a 2002 model designed and rally prepared by Vermont SportsCar, the same company that built Travis Pastrana’s new Subaru Rally Team USA competition car. The team also gave it the 2006 “hawkeye” headlight update, and the naturally aspirated boxer engine generated 304 horsepower and 311 pound-feet of torque back in the day. Block has stored it in his climate-controlled warehouse in Utah, and it’s being given a once-over by his rally team before the auction is completed, so there’s no reason to think the amount has fallen over the years.
