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 extraordinary Mustang. Shawn said: "Everything about this car is, 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.
00:11It 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.
00:29If 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.
00:37This vehicle certainly is that.
00:39And it's currently in the care of Sean, owner of High End Vehicle Storage and concierge
00:45facility Autopia.
00:47The owner of this car wanted to take a car to SEMA and he wanted it to be something that
00:52everyone would talk about.
00:55He started with not a great 65 Mustang.
00:58It needed a ton of work, metal work.
01:01It needed everything.
01:02And that was the idea, was to start with a low-dollar donor car.
01:05You weren't ruining a car that should have been preserved.
01:08The most expensive element is all the hand fabrication work that was done to the body.
01:14Honestly, parts just sitting on the floor of your garage, not putting anything together
01:20yet.
01:21You're already in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
01:24All the internals were rebuilt.
01:25It's all forged stuff.
01:28It'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 $1 million.
01:46And you can forget material comforts.
01:49This vehicle is a no-expense-spared, performance-focused beast.
01:55This 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.
02:06So the sounds you hear are incredible.
02:21This splitter here is all metal.
02:24We've got cool intakes here to bring air.
02:27The forge-line wheels fit this car perfectly.
02:32Even 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
02:43Silver.
02:44They actually gave it its own name.
02:47The bubble on top of the hood, that's for the supercharger.
02:52It's a costly piece of equipment going on under the hood.
02:57The interior on this car, again, everything was race-themed, but there's still some beauty
03:03in here.
03:10I love the simplicity of the interior.
03:13I 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.
03:25You can program the screen to show you whatever you want if you just wanted to have tach or
03:30tach and speed.
03:31And that's something you'll see in most race cars.
03:34It's a sequential six-speed transmission from Emco, very similar to what you see in
03:40a lot of GT3 race cars.
03:43But rather than wanting to shift with a stick, the option was to go with paddles.
03:48The 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 and the
03:57shift has already happened.
03:59You barely lose any RPM.
04:02You'll go through the gears really fast.
04:05It's like this epic event every time you take this car out for a drive.
04:10We 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.
04:23It's making 1,003 horsepower at the rear wheels.
04:26If we completely uncorked the tune, we could probably get somewhere in the neighborhood
04:30of about 1,250 at the wheel.
04:32Honestly, 1,000 horsepower at the rear wheels, a lot for a street car.
04:35But it just had to be in that power range.
04:39Top speed, we don't know yet because we haven't actually had enough open road for it.
04:43It should be able to do somewhere around 230 miles an hour.
04:48It really is a radical, extreme race car.
04:50That 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, even at speed limit, just
05:01cruising in this thing.
05:03It's always extreme.