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Showdown of Supercharged Stangs: Dark Horse SC vs. GTD vs. GT500

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Showdown of Supercharged Stangs: Dark Horse SC vs. GTD vs. GT500

We compare test numbers for the most potent Mustangs to date to see which is the quickest, grippiest, and stops shortest.

Welcome to Car and Driver's Testing Hub, where we zoom in on the test numbers. We've been pushing vehicles to their limits since 1956 to provide objective data to bolster our subjective impressions (you can see how we test here).

Ask any Ford employee, and they’ll tell you that the 2026 Mustang Dark Horse SC is not a direct successor to the now-retired Mustang Shelby GT500. If they’re high enough on the payroll, they may even say so without a wink and a nudge. But if it walks like a duck and quacks like it’s got a supercharged 5.2-liter V-8 under the hood, we’re pretty sure it’s a duck. Now that we’ve had the chance to strap some testing equipment to said duck—no one call PETA on us, please—we wanted to see how its test results stack up against the GT500 and the current king of the Mustangs, the GTD.

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Unsurprisingly, given that it has more horsepower (795 versus 760), the Dark Horse SC trounces the Shelby in the sprint to 60 mph. The SC starts ahead of the GT500 and never looks back. 8 seconds at 134 mph. 4 seconds at 132 mph.



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