The video shows what a soccer mom is capable of with a 550 HP Toyota Sienna Minivan doing drifts, donuts, burnouts and powerslides.
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The idea of an American Minivan is to be a carrier of kids, luggage and everything in between. It is “NOT” designed to drift. Frankly, it is not even built to give you that driving pleasure (remember even Brian was struggling with one in Furious 7). That said, it is the ideal choice of the suburban American mother irrespective of the boredom. But then, there was a mom who went on YouTube and saw some really amazing videos of Ken Block’s Gymkhana and went bonkers over it just like the rest of us. So what was the next logical step? Trick out the minivan parked in the garage and shout, “Hey kids get in the minivan, strap on the harness and put on your helmets.”
While that is not what exactly happened here, it pretty much sums up how the thought process would’ve been. In what is a marketing video by American shoe chain Famous Footwear, ‘Momkhana’ is a three-minute video which is a mix of Ken Block, Fast and the Furious and Los Angeles Suburbia. The video kicks off with the mom picking up her kids from school in what is a custom Toyota Sienna rear-wheel drive minivan that has been swapped for a humongous LS3 V8 producing 550 horses of power. What later ensues is a mix of drifts, burnouts, donuts, power slides, slow-mos and lots of aerial shots.
In addition to the bump in power, the Toyota minivan gets special tyres, a black and red paint job and a massive handbrake allowing those big slides and donuts in the narrow lanes of a rather peaceful neighbourhood in north Los Angeles, USA. So does it earn Famous Footwear some street cred? Oh yeah, we would say, considering they paid for the custom minivan. By now, we’re pretty sure that the responsible part of you just went, “But what about the kids?” Well, no kids were drifted in the making of this video and here is the detailed behind the scenes footage confirming the same. Fun much? You bet.
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