Hiratsuka, Japan—The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., announces that its global flagship brand ADVAN tires are featured as equipment on the vehicle used in "Gymkhana: Aussie Shred," the latest installment of the Gymkhana car stunt film series. The film was released on the official YouTube channel of Hoonigan Media Machine, the production company, on December 9, and has attracted much attention, surpassing 5.3 million views within a week.

The Gymkhana film series co-produced by Hoonigan Media Machine, 321 Action Action and Subaru Motorsports USA is a widely popular series of entertaining online videos featuring extreme driving. Yokohama Rubber has been involved with the popular film series for the past three video’s. The series’ first film featuring ADVAN tires was released in 2020 has been played more than 72 million times, and the second has been viewed more than 27 million times since its release in 2022. The Subaru "Brataroo" 9500 Turbo featured in the third addition to the series, Gymkhana: Aussie Shred, is a high-powered machine with a 670 horsepower engine. The Brataroo is a re-imagining of the 1978 Subaru "BRAT" that has been engineered specifically as a Gymkhana machine. The series latest film is set in various sites in Australia. The driver once again is Travis Pastrana, a "Team Yokohama" brand ambassador and a superstar in the action sports world. Repeating the dramatic driving in his previous two films, Pastrana performs several wild stunts, including dynamic drifts and a 160-foot (about 50 meters) jump across a deep canyon.

The Subaru Brataroo featured in Aussie Shred is fitted with Yokohama Rubber’s 18-inch ADVAN A052 street sports tires and ADVAN APEX V601 high-performance tires. The ADVAN tires demonstrated the perfect balance of high grip and rigidity on harsh and diverse road surfaces, from race circuits to gravel, that supported driver Pastrana’s execution of the next-level of stunts displayed in the latest Gymkhana film.

The consumer tire strategy in Yokohama Rubber’s three-year (2024–2026) medium-term management plan, Yokohama Transformation 2026 (YX2026), aims to maximize the sales ratios of high-value-added tires by expanding sales of YOKOHAMA’s global flagship ADVAN brand, the GEOLANDAR brand of tires for SUVs and pickup trucks, winter tires, and 18-inch and larger tires.

※Hoonigan’s official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheHoonigans
Gymkhana: Aussie Shred https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daYgg2YSA2g
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