READ MORE: 2015 Ford Mustang: In-Depth with the Team that Made It HappenĬalling in favors, cajoling reluctant suppliers, and building some pieces with their own hands, the finished Need For Speed car was coming together. “The only time we had done that was on the styling model in the studio and that car had never, ever seen the sun.” “At that point we had not fully dressed out a car,” he says.
Plans began in February 2013 with securing a prototype equipped with an EcoBoost V-6-and then swapping that for a GT prototype with the 5.0-liter Coyote V-8-while Pericak’s team began assessing what else was needed. We turned it into the car we wanted it to be, and that was a significant amount of work.” It’s not easy building a car that looks like a “job one” production car when virtually all of its parts are still being developed. It was a prototype without the right graining on many of the parts and a hodge-podge of stuff. “We stole it from the calibration team,” explains Pericak of the particular car that would become a sort-of star.
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