SAY hello to the epic Mustang that has a $1 million price tag. If you’re planning to make a big impression at one of the largest car shows on the planet, you’re going to need an impressive machine. Shawn Davis, owner of Autotopia, an exclusive high end car storage and concierge facility in California, spent 10,000 hours with his team to create the 'Vicious Mustang'. Shawn said: "Everything about this car is aggressive, vicious, exceptional. It's like a completely different world - it's like an epic event every time you take this car out." Their quest for perfection led to a final price tag of $1 million. And you can forget material comforts, this vehicle is a no-expense-spared performance-focused beast. Shawn added: “Top speed we don’t know yet because we haven’t actually had enough open road for it. It should be able to do somewhere around 230MPH. It really is a radically extreme race car. That was the intent, and that was what was accomplished with this."
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00:00From the ground up, everything about this car is aggressive, vicious, exceptional.
00:13It should be able to do somewhere around 230 miles an hour.
00:17It's just a completely different world.
00:19It's like this epic event every time you take this car out.
00:22If you're planning to make a big impression at one of the largest car shows on the planet,
00:34you're going to need an impressive machine.
00:36This vehicle certainly is that.
00:39And it's currently in the care of Sean, owner of high-end vehicle storage and concierge facility, Autopia.
00:47The owner of this car wanted to take a car to SEMA and he wanted it to be something
00:52that everyone would talk about.
00:55He started with not a great 65 Mustang.
00:57It needed a ton of work, metal work.
01:00It needed everything.
01:01And that was the idea was to start with a low-dollar donor car.
01:04You weren't ruining a car that should have been preserved.
01:07The most expensive element is all the hand fabrication work that was done to the body.
01:15Honestly, parts just sitting on the floor of your garage, not putting anything together yet.
01:20You're already in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
01:24All the internals were rebuilt.
01:25It's all forged stuff.
01:27It's a compound-charged car with a supercharger, also twin turbos.
01:33You talk about 10,000 hours of work that went into this car to ultimately create what we
01:38call vicious Mustang.
01:40This quest for perfection led to a final price tag of one million dollars.
01:45And you can forget material comforts.
01:48This vehicle is a no expense spared, performance focused beast.
01:53This car has no air conditioning in it.
01:59It has no heater in it.
02:00It has no stereo in it.
02:02It has very little heat treatment or sound deadening.
02:05So the sounds you hear are incredible.
02:20This splitter here is all metal.
02:23You've got cool intakes here to bring air.
02:28The forge line wheels fit this car perfectly.
02:31Even little details like this where they went, instead of leaving the brake, they went with
02:36vicious on it.
02:38And they matched the paint exact to this, which this color is called vicious titanium silver.
02:44They actually gave it its own name.
02:52The bubble on top of the hood, that's for the supercharger.
02:55It's a costly piece of equipment going on under the hood.
03:00The interior on this car, again, everything was race themed, but there's still some beauty in here.
03:08I love the simplicity down here as far as the buttons go.
03:18It's some wonderful leather.
03:20Instead of having a traditional gauge cluster, it's a MoTeC onboard management system.
03:26You can program the screen to show you whatever you want.
03:28If you just wanted to have tack or tack and speed, that's something you'll see in most race cars.
03:33It's sequential six-speed transmission from Emco, very similar to what you see in a lot of GT3 race cars.
03:42But rather than wanting to shift with a stick, the option was to go with paddles.
03:47The shifts are programmed at two and a half milliseconds, which is just extreme.
03:52By the time you're letting go of the paddle, your head's already gone like that,
03:56and the shift has already happened.
03:58You barely lose any RPM.
04:01You'll go through the gears really fast.
04:04It's like this epic event every time you take this car out for a drive.
04:08We haven't tested zero to 60 speed.
04:13We're guessing it should be in the high twos, 2.8, 2.9, somewhere around there.
04:19It's detuned 30% from what the max would be on this car.
04:24It's making 1,003 horsepower at the rear wheels.
04:27If we completely uncorked the tune, we could probably get somewhere in the neighborhood
04:31of about 1,250 at the wheel.
04:33Honestly, 1,000 horsepower at the rear wheels, a lot for a street car.
04:37But it just had to be in that power range.
04:40Top speed, we don't know yet because we haven't actually had enough open road for it.
04:45It should be able to do somewhere around 230 miles an hour.
04:49It really is a radical extreme race car.
04:52That was the intent, and that's what was accomplished with this.
04:55This is not a, hey, let's go for a comfortable drive at any time.
05:02Even its speed limit, just cruising in this thing.
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