The latest generation of the Ford Mustang represents a bold new era for the historic sports car. The genre-defining pony car has been one of the most important nameplates in the American automotive industry for over 60 years, but recent years have seen the Mustang evolve significantly.
That evolution includes a lineup that makes it a world-class performance car with racing variants, a performance flagship that competes with some of the world’s most exclusive exotic cars, and the Dark Horse, which showcases impressive power and engineering solutions like carbon fiber wheels for the first time in Ford’s own lineup.
However, the 2026 model year sees Ford introducing an even more powerful version of the Mustang Dark Horse, the new Ford Mustang Dark Horse SC. Created by the newly rebranded Ford Racing, the new Dark Horse SC is made to be the most powerful and track-ready variant of the Dark Horse, and the team behind the flagship Ford Mustang GTD lent many of its racing-bred engineering solutions to the new Dark Horse SC.
Unlike the Dark Horse’s naturally aspirated 5.0-liter engine, the Dark Horse SC uses a 5.2-liter V8, and this time, it’s supercharged, hence the SC suffix to its name. Carbon fiber wheels and carbon ceramic brakes from Brembo mean that the car sheds an impressive 150 pounds of weight compared to the standard Dark Horse.
Revised aerodynamics include an aluminum hood with a vent that improves cooling and front-end dynamics, and especially with the SC’s available Track Pack, downforce is significantly improved, with solutions like a ducktail-shaped decklid that improves the rear wing’s efficiency by 10 percent without requiring a larger wing that could impact rear visibility.
Filling the gap between the Ford Mustang Dark Horse and the ultra high-performance, racing-bred Ford Mustang GTD with a price tag of over $300,000, the new Ford Mustang Dark Horse SC is an exciting new addition to a stable of Mustangs that are redefining the historic nameplate’s place in the performance car world.
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