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

i think we should tune it one last time all right so that's it we just wrapped unicorn versus the world but sadly that means that's the last project that ken's gonna be doing with the unicorn for at least the foreseeable future you wanna explain why well my favorite car too i think it's all of our favorite cars but after 11 years ford and i are parting ways amicably they're seeing other people yeah it's cool like it's an open relationship but i appreciate the support ford put behind me for all these years uh it actually was great and being able to do projects like this in the huna truck the fiesta big moment the ken block [Music] [Applause] everything that we got to do was super rad but time to move on so today is my final time driving this car really so i think we should tune it one last time but before that i wanted to kind of talk about this little memory lane go back through yeah yeah this is like the equivalent of like scrolling through your ex's ig that's what we're doing right now one last time before you hit that on follow-up yeah yeah just one last time before unfollow and block you gotta double them up here's the thing about the unicorn the two of us could talk for hours i'm more curious as to what john has to say about unicorn i mean for me who did not because like yeah this was like when i got hired on gym seven had just wrapped and remember i had my interview you want to see something cool it sounded like something from like stand by me right so we go over this corner see a dead body and you look somebody's look at this and it was just the fender he's like anything we'll show you he pulled it off and that's the first time i saw the car i was like this is bananas and that's my introduction to huni that was like week one and this is personally my favorite car that ken's ever built because to me it's the most relatable because it's from the 60s it's an american car it's got a v8 in it i mean yeah it's got twin turbos on it but it's still like it's the most aggressive looking car the presence of it it's muscular it's all those things it breathes fire i just think that like v2 is also like equally as impressive because it's like how did you take the craziest car and make it even stupider you know like you couldn't top it like the unicorn was the best car there was and then add another two times a horsepower so that's a good question v1 or v2 well i think i think v1 was a bit more relaxed and fun right bigger power band and it had enough power v2 it just like everything it feels like wants to kill me [Music] from the power to the fumes in my face it's like making me pick which of my favorite children it's not nice yeah i can't do it you can't do it i think for me aesthetically i like v1 more and originally the v1 when we designed it i wanted it to look like a hot wheels car you would play with i agree like i i enjoy that look but it's actually kind of complicated the other one is just like itb's with you know a scoop it is so like hot wheels you know like for the yike that a kid would understand air go in high horsepower yeah we talk about the design side like i don't think we really ever dive deep into it but so much work went into designing this car and there were so many different variations we hired multiple artists and in the end it was actually lindsey ross who actually worked at hoonigan and then went to go work at rtr which is kind of funny because rtr was the one who were building this car and we worked countlessly to like all the little stuff like the fact that the fender like the actual flare bolted on the whole way instead of like just having the bolts here and when that we did that no one else was doing that like the idea that it was instead of like a full fender replacement it just flanked the whole side and part of the reason we did that we didn't want like the heavy bolts around here that you saw on all the other cars we wanted to just feel like this big slab panel that went on and think about how many renditions we went through for the scoop like 20 different renditions like we built it out of cardboard like we did all these things because it was about just trying to get that look perfect that was like somewhere between paying homage to like vintage racing and like vintage drag cars and all that everything that had scoops on it but then also modernizing it enough that like it fit the rest of kind of what we were doing with us the car was always behind schedule we had these shoot dates that we were everything was backed up against so i did one test out near charlotte and there were no body panels or anything it was all raw but we just had to prove that it worked because the way that the engine was placed in because the diff had to sit up front everything had to be quickly tested so then the car came to la to shoot for gymkhana seven got finished in the wee hours of the night i went and shook it down in a dirty parking lot next to hoon again and he shook it down behind old hoonigan which a parking lot like this big [Music] so then the next day we started shooting gymkhana 7. so i learned to drive this thing there was no real practice time i learned how to drive this car making gymkhana seven yeah so what's what's your favorite moment in chicago seven i really love the water drop in l.a river you slide and drop the wheel in just because it just looks like the easiest thing for me to do just visually it looked good and you didn't want to do it you fought me on the radio on you're like i don't want to put the car in the water and i was like it's a brand new car the low rider shot is probably one of the most iconic things randy's donuts just looks good because the setup that's my favorite shot all-time favorite moment for this car of all time i think probably we all agree three two one everyone saw the same thing except for him what would you say i said evo corner that's like the move yeah i didn't know we were jumping so far brian just wants to erase london at some point ken and i like you know we decided to see other people and ken went and dated the top gear folks so we made a video in london i haven't watched it tell me if it's good maybe be careful [Music] well so you took a car that was crazy then you made it crazier to do the climb kana video was it like hey we need turbos like going into it you're like we need this already or did you try out well no because we for climb kana we knew the altitude affects the power so much and with the being normally aspirated it would rob it even more so what do you do you force the air in there to get the horsepower so and then you know because we didn't want to deal with intercoolers and stuff methanol and then one of my favorite things though was gymkhana 10 doing all the things that we did in gymkhana 10. but then we had the down day in l.a where we shot all the slow-mo stuff because we had the phantom camera yeah and then we made a whole christmas of shooting fire yeah a whole christmas video that's how long it's an hour long or two hours long and brandon steineker the drummer of rancid actually made holiday music for it made five tracks and it just repeats but it's all edited to this slo-mo footage of the unicorn spitting fire we also did toe nuts that day as well yes because the escort broke and we were waiting to fix it so we were bored and that's what happens when we're bored so donuts is at f-450 driving around with the unicorn hooked up going the opposite direction and i'm just doing an all-wheel drive burnout tethered going around behind the f-450 what's your top three moments for me gym seven when you leave the warehouse from the all-wheel burnout you come out like uh curve the curb over the bridge before you get to the hot dog cart i super love that one i will not lie though the jump in london in the underneath pretty sick i like that one and then chris and i will also say when chris harris did his ride along with you he was looked genuinely terrified that was a really good moment back top three moments number three gymkhana 10 the reverse entry in detroit and where it like drops in the slo-mo and comes back it just looks cool that is first entry is it's all time yeah gym seven i really like all of like the really big shots we were coming in like basically right as you're coming off the six street bridge yeah six feet bridge slide on like off the sixth street bridge right yeah like you can see the police cars that are like blocking traffic in the back but it's just like a cool looking shot because there's this like gone in 60 seconds type feel it's also like one of the most iconic film spots in all of los angeles yeah but it was that was gone yeah and then uh you know evo corner it's just cool vin top three oh i'm not playing this game it's all sick it doesn't like there's no single moment to pick out i mean i got excited watching ken smash through gears in a straight line on this drag strip so like it's the unicorn everything that's done is awesome no pick all right uh top three i would say the chained up moment in the warehouse because it was something that i kept wanting to do and ken said that's dumb but it actually made sense for the mustang i will give him credit i will give him good that was bryan's idea but it was something that made sense for the mustang because we had to explain to an audience real quickly that it was all-wheel drive like that's what made this thing special and still to this day like that still of seeing all the wheels spinning i think it's actually a shot that ron got it's just still one of my favorite shots of this car then evo corner it just it's just like probably one of the best filming moments i've ever ever had you know what i actually have to say a weird one is the testing and i wasn't even there for it like seeing that come back was just like the coolest thing because it was this thing that we built in our heads and then all of a sudden to see it actually work and like slide in a way we never saw the car slide i don't know this car just makes me happy all the time all right so i'll do the final ones um randy's donuts in la just because it was super rad to do that there iconic spot that i'd looked at most of my life uh evil corner of course because i mean that shot is like what i dreamt about going to pikes peak and mimicking what i saw in the 80s and early 90s of what rally cars did there on that mountain and then the final thing actually was going to detroit and finally getting the shoot in detroit for gymkhana 10 with the unicorn and actually the surface there was much slipperier than it looked like the rocks in the tarmac were super slippery so driving on it was much more difficult and we caught some of that storytelling in the gymkoto files but the part that i really enjoyed was being out on woodward avenue right for us slows like a place that i've eaten so many times there in detroit and doing moving donuts around you [Music] they're at in that intersection it all comes back [Music] [Laughter] so in saying that though shouldn't we do some moving donuts one last time one last time i see a segway plugged in somewhere back there from the production guys i'll dust it off if i got it you still got the skill i don't know i don't know i don't know if i can still ride one look let's let's set it to its viking funeral i'll go get the segways [Music] [Music] man i'm a front clipping boy you guys ready sure [Music] [Music] so want yeah dude i don't have a hat [Music] foreign

Channel: Ken Block

Views: 5,385,636

Keywords: Ken Block, hoonicorn, Ken Block leaves Ford, Hoonicorn Vs The World, Hoonicorn Vs., gymkhana, Ken Block Retirement, Ken block Mustang, Ken Block Fired, Climbkhana, twin turbo mustang, Hoonigan, hoonigan racing, RTR mustang

Id: C7Tl7Zn-KRE

Length: 15min 56sec (956 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 08 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/HeshootsHescores88]

in his instagram video announcement, his Subaru Hatch from Gymkhana 2 is prominently in the background. given Hoonigan's work with Subaru and Vermont Sports car with Travis, I have to think that's what's happening here.

[u/underscore-hyphen_]

Up next: 24 Hours of BLAT!hurst, with Ken Block sponsored by Holden!

[u/Justaflywhiteguy]

I don't know much about how all this works, can someone explain what happens to the hoonicorn? Does he keep it or does it go back to his partners/sponsors?

[u/HOONIGAN-]

I know there's basically no chance of it happening, but I kind of hope he doesn't sign a deal with any one specific manufacturer. It would be cool if he just worked with various brands and they built all kinds of wild cars instead of being stuck under one umbrella.

[u/Paublo57]

He should sign with Toyota and bring more GR Yaris hype to the US.

Help us Ken Block, you're our only hope

[u/GFfoundmyusername]

I wonder where we will see him next. Someone should ask him.

[u/abrooks1125]

it's gotta be Toyota or Hyundai, right? Or back to Subaru?

[u/SirTLAW]

In there garage tour video, they go through saying the Hoonicorn is going away soon for version 3.

[u/M2-99-ROU]

Will he at least get to keep the hoonicorn?