As the world’s best-selling sports car for several years in a row now, the sixth-gen Ford Mustang has been an absolute success for the Blue Oval brand. A good portion of the sold examples was left untouched, yet others have been tuned to the teeth, and a small chunk of the latter have become absolute monsters.
No, we’re not talking about those that show off at car gatherings and bite the curb a few seconds later, but about true kings of the drag strip, like this one that has embraced its wild side and touches on the hypercar-ness.
According to the description of the video, this 2015 Ford Mustang boasts a Coyote engine, with a single 98mm turbo, built by Fast Forward Racing Engines in Florida.
There’s no saying how much power it puts down, but we reckon it is in the region of 2,000 HP. What makes us say that? The fact that it is capable of running the quarter mile in well under 8 seconds.
In fact, it was filmed at the Street Car Takeover in Indianapolis over the weekend, putting its money where its mouth is and doing 7.66 at 181.74 mph (292.48 kph) as the sun set over the horizon.
Earlier that day, it lined up at the start line next to a Nissan GT-R. Mind you, the Godzilla was far from stock, yet it failed to keep up with this crazy ‘Stang, which completed the run in 8 seconds, at 173 mph (278.4 kph). The GT-R, on the other hand, was clocked at 162.14 (261 kph) at the end of the quarter mile, with the stopwatch showing 8.63 seconds, so it likely has well over 1,000 HP available via the right pedal.
Now head on down and check out the vid to see what this Mustang is capable of.
After a series of unfortunate events put an end to Cristian's dream of entering a custom built & tuned old-school Dacia into a rally competition, he moved on to drive press cars and write for a living. He's worked for several automotive online journals and now he's back at autoevolution after his first tour in the mid-2000s. Full profile
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