Nope, I agree with the comment about no vinyl striping which I hate on my Mach but will not remove. I think the Dark Horse is overall an improvement over the Mach 1.
Eh.... very very minor. Like I said, I can put E85/Flex on my Mach 1 while you can't to a Dark Horse so there's that. I'll have a lot more HP than a Dark Horse and plenty of other good track items that are there.
No doubt they could have done a lot more and went hybrid or electric & AWD but that would have turned more people away. There is already the Mach-E but I think they are treading lightly with their nearly 60 year running RWD V8 pony car.
Ford will likely give Roush, Saleen and Shelby access to the ECU but I doubt Lund, PBD, etc. will. They’ll have to try to jailbreak it which probably won’t be easy.
I have the same feelings towards it, My mach 1 should be in the uk as of tomorrow, so this has done nothing to persuade me from keeping the mach 1.It looks okay but it's not for me. The front fascia and headlights do nothing for me and the rear end is a disappointment. Not liking the big display in the interior either but people who want modern styles it'll be fine. Slightly more power is not important to me at all. Choosing Mach 1 in 2021 and Velocity Blue was a huge win for me
Dark Horse is the name people voted on to name the new blackout package. Ford though it was a good idea to tell people that they were naming a gimmick pkg and not that they were really naming a performance line. Marketing failure.
People are getting 1000+from the current bottom end. Unless you are doing a track only car, which very tiny percentage of buyers would do, I don't see how making it a better bottom end matters at all for over 99% of buyers. Sure doesn't for me.
There's always gonna be a bigger fish.