(Racing Performance Machines) is the seventeenth season of the American children's television series Power Rangers. As with all previous Power Rangers series, RPM uses footage, costumes, and other props from the Super Sentai Series, in this case, from Engine Sentai Go-onger. With the re-branding of Jetix to Disney XD, all Power Rangers shows were dropped from the channel in the United States and RPM was only broadcast during the ABC Kids block on ABC stations. However, countries such as the United Kingdom broadcast the show on Jetix, and then subsequently Disney XD after the re-brand. This was the fourth Disney series not to have a crossover team up following Power Rangers Ninja Storm, Power Rangers Mystic Force, and Power Rangers Jungle Fury. It was the final season to be produced and distributed by Disney and Renaissance-Atlantic Entertainment before the franchise was re-acquired by Haim Saban and his company Saban Capital Group, starting with Power Rangers Samurai.An AI computer virus named Venjix takes over all of the Earth's computers, creates an army of robot "Grinder" droids and destroys or enslaves almost all of humanity. Only the city of Corinth remains, protected by an almost impenetrable force field from the toxic atmosphere of the wasteland outside. Venjix tries various plans to destroy Corinth, and Doctor K's RPM Power Rangers fight to protect it. In 2011, the Power Rangers Samurai two-part episode Clash of the Red Rangers, a crossover with RPM, establishes that RPM is actually in an alternate universe to the other seasons of the Power Rangers franchise. Production Edit Australian actor Eka Darville, who previously starred in series three of Blue Water High, was reported to have a role in September 2008 in what was then unknown as RPM or Racing Performance Machines which began production in September 2008 in New Zealand.[1][2] Heidi Kathy Bradhurt had been cast as an extra,[3] but her profile initially listed her as the Yellow Ranger, named "Kayla,"