Update: Ford confirms Mustang Dark Horse SC power figures
There’s something properly cheeky about what Ford has done here. The Mustang Dark Horse SC already took what made the Dark Horse famous and made it even better when it debuted a few weekends ago.
It swapped the regular Dark Horse’s 5.0-litre naturally aspirated V8 for a bigger 5.2-litre supercharged unit borrowed from the notorious GTD. Ford bolted on a 7-speed DCT and reworked the chassis, suspension, and cooling systems. Not that alone, it also fitted MagneRide dampers, reinforced the suspension links, and threw in Brembo brakes with an optional Track Pack that borrows carbon ceramic stoppers and carbon fibre wheels from the GTD itself. But something was missing, and that was the numbers.
Now Ford has confirmed that it packs 592kW and 894Nm. That’s serious power. To put that into context, the Mustang GTD, built to go toe-to-toe with Porsche and Lamborghini at the Nürburgring, makes 607kW. The Dark Horse SC sits just 15kW below it.
The SC’s existence makes sense when you consider what the Dark Horse was always trying to be, and that’s for people who actually use their Mustangs. The record-breaking GTD, on the other hand, sits at the top of the range as a collector’s piece. The Dark Horse SC borrows exactly that know-how, and does it without the GTD’s collector-car price tag.
Ford hasn’t confirmed local pricing or availability for South Africa. As for the original Dark Horse, it entered the market and changed our perceptions of modern Mustangs and what they could achieve. Read our review here. The SC, though, takes things up a notch, looks proper and should be worth every penny.
