Motortrend got the same times as a stock 11-14 Coyote.

Watching the your video. It shows that rowing gears on the dragstrip has no margins for errors. A slow shift or a missed gear costs you the race. I read from many viewers commenting they want a manual transmission. On a road course it's the correct choice. Not so much on a dragstrip. If your going to use the Dark Horse or GT for drag racing. The 10R80 is the best choice. I bracket race my NA automatic car with some performance bolt on parts in pure stock. I often race with street tires. When using street tires. I drop rear air pressure. I ease through the water box. I skip the John Force burnout and spin my tires enough to remove any water and debris before staging and make my two qualifying passes to establish my mid to upper 12 second ET depending on DA. My street tires hook up when not overheated and clean from water and debris. I find the Dark Horse is a refined Mustang that as you mentioned was built for the track use yet has the added comfort for a solid allaround daily driver. I'm looking forward seeing you turn the Dark Horse from a track Mustang to 1/4 mile Stang.

9:47 exhaust tips slappin the bumper from wheel hop

It's a bit insane that this thing costs as much as my 2014 Shelby GT500 I bought new back in 2014.

The guy in the 10spd GT must be really happy he didn’t get the dark horse.

Honestly, when i had my C5 z06 stock (only k & n air filter) i was running low 12's , around 12.30's at around 117 mph. It was a 2002. A 2024, 500hp doing mid 12's ?? Prices STARTING at over $60k and the GT in the $50k.

This car is freaking gorgeous!!! Race Red is the only color dark horse I have not seen in person

Buy a manual they said. It'll be fun they said 😂

Tell ding dong in the gt to roll his windows up!!!!

Looks like these cars like air moving through them. Track day 👍 , auto cross and drag strip 👎, luv the stick shift

Not too impressive nowadays. Ran 12.5 at 114 with my bone stock 2015 manual scat pack.

I love manuals but the 10R80 is a must if you want to be fast drag or roll racing gen 6 and gen 7 mustangs. My whippled 10R80 is smoking MT82 whippled FN S550 stangs with more power in 30-130 mph rolls here in Australia. I don't think the Tremec manual would do any better either.

So for street use and drag racing, the GT is very nearly as quick as a Dark Horse regarding straight line acceleration in a quarter mile drag race.

That 60' is murdering your times. I cut a 1.8 on the stock tires with a 3500rpm launch. I would expect to see the Dark Horse able to consistently run low 12's. With a slick and a IDGAF launch, might be able to eek into an 11.9.

I’m running 12.0-11.9 on a stock 24 gt base 🤷🏻🤣

It’s pretty much a GT performance pack 2. Track carver more than anything

We need an Evan Smith intervention 😁🥃

2024 mustang is like when the 96 mustang came out. Just wait till GPF comes out, these cars will run 13.5 lol

17 inch slicks, e85, mt82, 5000 rpm launch, 11.7-11.9 all day long in California heat. 2015 gt standard brakes

It was the track not the tires that got grease

Damn! 500hp and runs mid 12's..my 1le runs low 12s and only has 455hp..lol. guess low rpm stump pulling torque does make a difference!

My bone stock 2016 Perfomance Pack MT82 car went 12.7 @ 113. 2k d/a. I’m sure it’s fun on the track, but these cars are 100% duds when it comes to the 1/4 mile performance.

Came to watch the dork horse run a similar time as a s197 🤡

Dark Horse beats my ecoboost by 4 lengths in the 1/4. Lets see thats about 9,000 dollars a length saved....I'll take it.

21 lbs rear stock, 50lb front

WTF is a gurney flap?? Is that anything like a rear spoiler?

#1 I appreciate this honest video with real-life runs. #2 This is why the 2024 dark horse along with the 2022-2023 mach 1 are, IMO, disappointments. They still can't outrun a gt350. You would think, 6 years after the gt350, they would come out with something lighter & more power.

My car bone stock did 12.4 @ 112 with a 1.9 60ft with crap Goodyear RF’s. 2019 Camaro SS with the 6spd NLS Tremec. I was able to hot lap the car because it has so many coolers. Bought it CPO with 18k miles for $33k. 🤙

Makes no sense I had a few 05-06 and a 07 most recently. Last one I had was a black automatic 373 gears sct tune smaller pulleys no cats no mufflers just a set of mid pipe cherry bombs just to quiet it down a notch lol and ran a 13.20s -13.40. On nitto summer tires stock 17s rims And only paid $4500 and had the parts laying around. 😂😂😂. I told my wife there no reason to buy a new mustang for 40k and now prices are on the 50s lmaoo

$8000 worth of Steeda suspension parts will fix this car. Well that and Jamie's knowledge and help.

Don’t think this guy can come up with anymore excuses

Moral of the story buy a base GT automatic and save 40 grand and win

Man thats slow for a 70k dollar car, especially compared to a to my 42k dollar Camaro SS. I own a 24 GT 10R80 as well. Less than 50k. I guess if you really wanna road race.....

Horrible times. Way too long of a burnout for street tires and too much psi. Very short burnout to just clean off the tires and 25psi. Your slightly higher mph on the last pass was not from running less tire psi. You ran the car at night in cooler weather and the sun wasn't beating down on the track surface.

A waste of money. The Dark Horse needs a 4.10 gear, that’s all it need

Man just sell it as soon as possible to get your money back

Manuals suck!! Automatic is the way to goooooo! Best all around transmission by far!

After you dump a bunch of money in your 75k car you can run mid-12’s. LOL Wow!

the audacity of Ford to call these cars a new generation. i feel bad for people who paid and continue to pay msrp.

Why did Ford make these new Stangs so overweight???

Why are these so slow ? Car and driver , mustangs and fast ford and even MOTORTREND of all people got 11.9 @ 118mph in a 2018 gt auto with all season tires !

Instead of going thru all that bullshit. Buy a camaro

Its a dud just admit it 😂

What a piece of junk car 🤮

Drop 500 lbs off these cars then maybe I'll be interested.. Ridiculous what Ford did to the weight of these whales.

Wow what a terrible video 😂

THE 10 SPEED AUTO'S WILL SMOKE THE 6 SPEED MANUALS ALL DAY LONG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.