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" Every superhero needs a supervehicle\u2014and the masked vigilantes in Kick-Ass, out April 16, are no exception. For the Red Mist character, played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse, producers tasked Ezra Lafayette of Ezra Design Group with amping up the look of a supercharged Mustang modified for drag, street and canyon driving. (Click on the gallery button below for pictures of the build.) They call it the Mistmobile. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s an all-out race car,&amp;quot; Lafayette says. &amp;quot;The horsepower is right around 500. With 500 horsepower, you can go out on the street and be passing Porsches.&amp;quot; Most people would be excited to get to drive that kind of car, and initially Mintz-Plasse was pretty pumped. But then reality set in. The actor didn&amp;#039;t know how to operate a manual transmission, and he had to learn on a $240,000 car. &amp;quot;If I scratched it or crashed it or anything, I had to pay for it,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;Everyone&amp;#039;s like, &amp;#039;Man, you get to drive that car, that&amp;#039;s amazing!&amp;#039; And I was like &amp;#039;No, it&amp;#039;s not amazing!&amp;#039; There was a lot of cash riding on that. So it was really stressful.&amp;quot; Not to mention that Kick-Ass was filmed in London, where everyone drives manual. &amp;quot;Everyone was just like, &amp;quot;Who is this American who gets to drive the car and doesn&amp;#039;t even know what he&amp;#039;s doing?&amp;quot; the actor laughs. &amp;quot;Everybody wanted to take a spin on it but I think [director Matthew Vaughn] and Aaron [Johnson, who plays Kick-Ass] were the only two who got to drive it around [besides me].&amp;quot; Producers brought the car on set during the first week of filming. The reaction was unanimous: &amp;quot;No one had seen it before, so they were like, &amp;quot;Oh my god, it&amp;#039;s beautiful!&amp;quot; Mintz-Plasse says. The actor drove the car around for 10 days before filming with it, and took one very memorable ride with Vaughn. &amp;quot;He took it out on the streets at 60, 80 mph, which is pretty fast,&amp;quot; the actor says. &amp;quot;I drove it like 25 or 30 mph.&amp;quot; He filmed two scenes driving; the rest was handled by stunt drivers. Despite the stress, Mintz-Plasse could definitely appreciate just how great the car was. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s very beautiful,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;The Lamborghini doors blew my mind!&amp;quot; And if there&amp;#039;s a Kick-Ass sequel, the actor has a vision for what Red Mist&amp;#039;s next vehicle could be. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s going to be a really crazy motorcycle, I bet,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re going to be like, &amp;#039;Okay, now you have to drive something even faster and crazier!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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