The final generation of the original Pony Car promises to be a highlight
Like frogs being gradually boiled we often don’t notice how radically the world is changing around us. So here’s a cause to pause for thought: the Ford Mustang now offers the last chance to buy a new car combining both a V8 engine and a manual gearbox on this side of the Atlantic.
Which makes it critically awkward that I only got to drive two cars fitted with the Handling Pack in the U.S, experiencing them separately on road and track. Both cars also had the standard six-speed manual gearbox in place of the optional 10-speed automatic - but it does mean that we’ll have to wait until the regular Dark Horse gets here to find out how it feels on standard Pirelli P Zeroes.
To no surprise, the Dark Horse sounds great. It comes with several switchable exhaust modes, but even the stealthiest Quiet mode is still rich in V8 fruitiness, and the loudest Track setting brings up a dashboard warning it is not intended for road use.
The hugeness of the grip from the Trofeo RS rubber brought by the Handling Pack was the other defining characteristic on road. This doesn’t kill the dynamic experience as it does on some over-tyred cars; there is plenty of sense of front-end connection through the steering wheel. But the Handling Pack does mean that the ultimate limits are so high as to be pretty much unreachable on public roads.
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