The Hoonicorn's Last Ride? Ken Block's Final Drive in the 1400hp AWD Mustang Hoonicorn V2

I think we should tune in one

last

time, so that's it, we just finished Unicorn vs. the World, but sadly that means that's the

last

project Ken will be doing with the Unicorn for at least the foreseeable future. Do you want to explain why? Well, my favorite. car also I think they are all our favorite cars but after 11 years Ford and I parted ways amicably they are seeing other people yeah it's cool like it's an open relationship but I appreciate the support Ford gave me during All these years. It was actually really cool and being able to do projects like this on the Huna truck, the big party moment, the Ken

block

, everything we had to do was super cool, but it's time to move on so today is the last This is the first time I've

drive

n this car, so I think I should tune it one last time, but before that I wanted to talk about this little walk down memory lane, going back, yeah, yeah, this is like the equivalent of scrolling through your ex's ig, that's what we're doing right now one last time before you. hit that on the follow yeah yeah just one last time before you unfollow and

block

you gotta double them.

This is what happens with the unicorn. The two of us could talk for hours. I'm more curious to see what John has to say about the unicorn. I mean me, he didn't do it, because yeah, this was like when I got hired at gym seven. I had just finished and remember I had my interview. You want to see something interesting. It sounded like something like that. Stay by my side, so let's go to this corner. you see a dead body and you look at someone look at this and it was just the fender, it's like anything we'll show you, he pulled it out and that was the first time I saw the car, I thought this is crazy and that's my introduction to huni.

That was like the first week and, personally, this is my favorite car that Ken has ever built because to me it's the most identifiable because it's from the '60s, it's an American car, it's got a V8, I mean, yeah, it's got twin turbos. , but still. like it's the most aggressive looking car, its presence, it's muscular, it's all those things, it breathes fire, I just think like the v2, it's also equally impressive because it's like, how did you take the craziest car and make it even more stupid? you couldn't top it like the unicorn was the best car out there and then add another two times the horsepower so that's a good question v1 or v2 well i think v1 was a little more relaxed and fun with a bigger power band and it had enough v2 power its like everything that feels like wants to kill me from the power to the fumes in my face its like making me choose which of my favorite kids its not nice yeah i cant do it you cant do it I think aesthetically I like the v1 better and originally the v1, when we designed it, I wanted it to look like a Hot Wheels car that you would play with.

I agree, I enjoy that aspect, but it's actually a bit complicated. The other one is the same. It's with, you know, a scoop, it's so like Hot Wheels, you know, why would a kid understand that air runs on high horsepower, yeah, we talk about the design side like I don't think we'll ever dive deep into him, but then. A lot of work went into the design of this car and there were so many different variations that we hired several artists and in the end it was Lindsey Ross who worked on Hoonigan and then went to work at RTR, which is kind of funny because RTR was the one. who were building this car and we worked countless hours to like all the little things, like the fact that the fender, like the actual flare, bolted all the way in instead of just having the bolts here and when we did it, no one more was doing that.

I liked the idea that instead of a complete fender replacement, it would just flank the entire side and part of the reason we did it was that we didn't want heavy bolts like you see on all the other cars we we wanted. Feel like this big slab panel that lit up and think about how many interpretations we did for the scoop, like 20 different interpretations, like we built it out of cardboard, like we did all these things because it was just about trying to get that perfect look. It was like somewhere between paying homage to old racing and old drag cars and everything that had firsts, but then also modernizing it enough that it fit with the rest of what we were doing with us, the car was always behind .

We had shoot dates where everything was backed up, so I did a test run near Charlotte and there were no body panels or anything, everything was raw, but we just had to prove it worked because of the way the engine was. placed because the differential had to sit in the front, everything had to be tested quickly, then the car arrived in Los Angeles to film for the gymkhana. They finished it in the early hours of the night. I went and shook it in a dirty parking lot next door. hoon again and shook it behind the old hoonigan, which was a parking lot like this big one, so the next day we started filming gymkhana 7.

So I learned to

drive

this thing, there was no real practice time, I learned to drive this self doing gymkhana. seven, yeah, so what's your favorite moment in Chicago? Seven, I really love the drop of water in the Los Angeles river, you slide and drop the wheel just because it seems like the easiest thing to do for me, it just visually looked good and you don't. I want to do it, you fought with me on the radio, you're like I didn't want to put the car in the water and I thought it was a new car.

The short passenger photo is probably one of the most iconic things about Randy's Donuts. It just looks good because the setup is my all-time favorite moment for this car of all time. I think we probably all agree. Three, two, one. Everyone saw the same thing except him, what would you say? I said evo corner, that's like the movement. Yeah, I didn't know we were jumping that far. Brian just wants to erase London at some point. Ken and I like it. You know we decided to see other people and Ken went out with the Top Gear people so we did a video in London.

I didn't see it, tell me if it's good, maybe be careful, so you took a car that was crazy and then made it crazier to make the kana upload video. Was it like, hey, we need turbos? You already tried well, no, because to climb Kana we knew that altitude greatly affects power and, being sucked normally, would rob it even more. Then what do you do? Do you force air in there to get the horsepower? and then you know, because we didn't want to deal with intercoolers and things with methanol and then one of my favorite things was gymkhana 10, doing all the things we did in gymkhana 10. but then we had the bad day in Los Angeles where we filmed all things in slow motion because we had the ghost camera, yeah, and then we did a whole Christmas shooting fire, yeah, a whole Christmas video, that's how long it's like an hour or two and Brandon Steineker, Rancid's drummer, actually made the vacation.

The music for it made five tracks and just repeats, but it's all edited into this slow motion footage of the unicorn breathing fire. We also did crazy things that day, yeah, because the escort broke down and we were waiting to fix it, so we were bored. and that's what happens when we're bored, so Donuts is in the F-450 driving with the unicorn hitched in the opposite direction and I'm just doing a strapped all-wheel drive burnout circling behind the F-450, which one is your best? three moments for me, gym seven, when you leave the warehouse from the exhaustion of the four wheels, you exit like, curve the sidewalk over the bridge before you reach the hot dog cart.

I like that. I won't lie even if I jump in London. at the bottom pretty sick i like that one and then chris and i will also say that when chris harris made his trip with you he looked really terrified that was a really good moment back the first three moments number three gymkhana 10 the reverse entry in detroit and where he falls in slow motion and comes back, it just looks cool, that's the first entry, it's all the time, yeah, gym seven, I really like them all, the big shots we were going in, basically, right when you come. from the six street bridge, yeah, six foot bridge, slide like from the sixth street bridge, right, yeah, like you can see the police cars that are like blocking traffic in the back, but It's like a shot that looks cool because this thing disappears in 60 seconds. guy, I feel like it's also like one of the most iconic movie locations in all of Los Angeles, yeah, but that's gone, yeah, and then, you know, evo corner is cool, vin top three, oh, I'm not playing this one game, everything is sick.

He doesn't like that there isn't a single moment to choose from, I mean, I got a thrill from watching Ken go through gears in a straight line on this race track, so like he's the unicorn, everything that's been done is amazing, there's no choice. Okay, uh, the first three, I would say the chained moment in the warehouse because it was something I kept wanting to do and Ken said it's dumb but it actually made sense for the

mustang

I'll give him credit I'll give him good that was idea bryan but it was something that made sense for the

mustang

because we had to explain to the audience very quickly that it was all-wheel drive, that's what made this special and still to this day, to see all the wheels turning, I think which is actually a chance that rum got.

It's still one of my favorite shots of this car, then the Evo corner is probably one of the best filming moments I've ever had. You know, what I really have to say, something strange is the test and it wasn't there. I wasn't even there for that, like seeing that come back was the coolest thing because it was something we built in our heads and then all of a sudden seeing it work and slide in a way that we never saw the car slide. I don't know, this car just makes me happy all the time, so I'm going to do the last few, um Randy's Donuts in Los Angeles, just because it was cool to do that iconic place that I had seen most of my years. life, uh, evil corner, of course, because I mean that shot is like what I dreamed of going to Pikes Peak and imitating what I saw in the '80s and early '90s of what the rally cars were doing there on that mountain and then the

final

thing was actually going to detroit and

final

ly filming in detroit for gymkhana 10 with the unicorn and actually the surface there was a lot more slippery than it looked, the rocks on the asphalt were super slippery, so driving over it was much more difficult and we caught some of that narrative in the Gymkoto archives, but the part I really enjoyed was being on Woodward Avenue, right for us, it slows down like a place I've eaten at so many times there in Detroit and moving donuts around you, they're at that intersection, everything comes.

I say again, though, shouldn't we do some moving donuts one last time? One last time I see a segway plugged in somewhere behind the production guys. I'll dust it off if I have it. You still have the ability to not. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know if I can still

ride

a look, let's set it up for your Viking funeral, I'll go get the segways, man, I'm a front trim guy, you guys are ready, you sure want to, yeah. Friend, I don't have a foreign hat.