Watch a Lamborghini and Mustang Have a Drift Battle in the Mountains of Japan

Two beasts of the road battle it out for the title of drift champion.

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Because watching only one super-powered Mustang isn’t epic enough, Monster ditched Ken Block and headed to the mountainous Japanese prefecture of Niigata to pit the Mustang muscle car with a Lamborghini supercar in a high-octane drift battle. Vaughn Gittin Jr. drives the 550 horsepower, 5.0-liter V8 Mustang RTR, pursuing Daigo Saito’s 650 horsepower, V12 Drift Lamborghini in a bumper-to-bumper race through the abandoned Niigata Russian Village, filling the alpine valleys with the bone-shaking screams of overclocked engines and squealing tires. Put on your headphones, crank up the volume, and enjoy the visual and audial treat above.

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