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DC Shoes co-founder Ken Block began with a plain old Subaru rally car, but with the help of Vermont SportsCar created a 400 horsepower cat track monster. With a turbocharged engine and a new set of cat track tires, the Subaru-based TRAX STI provides pure rally power in alpine conditions.

Based on a race ready Subaru WRX STI rally car, the TRAX is considered the world’s fastest cat track operation automobile. If you like to show up at the slopes in nontraditional style, you can’t do much better than this sick vehicle.

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Everyone wants to be Bode Miller. Sadly, the only way to truly become Bode Miller is to either wear his skin as a suit like Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs or just buy an expensive pair of skis. The latter might not make you ski like Bode, but just for a second people might think you’re as rich as him.

All it takes is equipping yourself with the finest ski gear. What better place to start than Alfred Dunhill’s Winter catalog. He just so happens to collaborate with ski specialists to fashion these Bode-esque titanium base skis. They’ve got Vist bindings which offer an adjustable speed lock as well as a personalizing option in which you can have “Bode” engraved in silver on it. Forget Miller-time. It’s Bode-time.

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We have no idea how you’re going to fit a HD display large enough to make a difference in your car, but Alpine insisted on bringing the HD-DVD to your backseat, it might useful in 5 years when your whole movie collection is replaced by HD-DVDs. May be we lack the kind of Alpine vision, but we don’t see any point in this apart from just a gimmick against the Bluray standard, “See? We’re in cars, how ’bout you?”. You should be able to pick up one of these by summer this year, if you are so passionate about it. — Sam Chan

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