Indiana also has dumbfuck politicians who think suspending excise and sales taxes for gasoline is somehow a good idea! Our completely useless governor, Mike Braun, abused "Energy Emergency" provisions for executive orders twice this year to do just that - once in April, again in August after the first one expired. The latter is slated to expire on November 4, 2026.   Local governments in Indiana have been deprived of funding for infrastructure projects to the tune of $140 million a month since April due to this bullshit.   Anyway, back to the topic of the thread- here are typical prices for gasoline and diesel in Martinsville, IN at 11 Am on 10/30/2026:    

I was curious how close I could get a Mustang GT to the equipment on the Dark Horse. There are, of course, some Dark Horse specific items. The dual air box and throttle body, engine oil, trans, and diff coolers, those are functionally the big ones I couldn't add to a factory build. Some appearance things too. Put the same color (Carb Gray) on both, so no added costs there. Automatic on both, because the Dark Horse Build & Price defaulted to that, and it didn't move the GT's price anyway. Now, the Dark Horse says it's built from the GT 301A package, plus this and that. I built from a GT Premium, initially because of the upgrade B&O audio option that I didn't see on the GT 301A. So my GT Premium build up added the 401A Premium High Package, GT Performance Package, MagnaRide Suspension, Active Valve Exhaust, and the B&O audio. Final price - $67140. A Dark Horse base, as close to "apples to apples" as I could get to my build (which doesn't get the heated+cooled leather of the 401A GT Premium, nor the approach detection) final price - $67075. All done on Build & Price, which is still on 2026. So, could they potentially take the dual air box/throttle body and coolers, and add them to the GT Performance Packages? I think it would make sense. That clears the Dark Horse, like the Dark Horse SC, to run an actually unique engine, differentiating itself better from the GT, and adding more value to that GT Performance Package.

Yesterday, two stations in my area had regular listed for $3.22 a gallon.  Of course, this is also the last day that the Georgia gas tax is suppended.  Prices will probably jump by 33 cents tomorrow. 

Depending on how you configure your GT, you'd be better "off" just buying a DH instead, price wise

Not just good news, but a welcome sign of wholesale changes in FoMoCo's corporate culture which has suffered from the worst case of Not Invented Here syndrome in the U.S. auto industry. From another article on that site:   Ford also learned what made them Chinese automakers tick—under their hoods and in their silicon brains. Engineers took a look at BYD's vehicles and found a 20% battery cost advantage, and rather than shrug it off, engineers were pushed to rethink motors, gearboxes, and inverters so they could make up the difference without ultimately sacrificing range.

Yeah, I don't see a need for Dark Horse to go away.  I view that as more of a "GT+" package anyway.   Which is another reason using "Dark Horse SC" was dumb, as now you're stuck if you wanted to add a "GT350" back in.......so now you're going to have 3 "Dark Horse" models, which are all unrelated to each other aside from name.   Add in the fact, I don't think it sounds special, they sound more like additional packages to the "regular" Dark Horse.

They say memory is the second thing to go... I can't remember what the first thing is.

FFS old age is hitting me harder then I thought! 

See how ridiculous the Dark Horse name is?  Even a Ford fan can't remember it's Dark Horse and not Black Horse!  😄 

This morning's updated gas prices in Hamden, CT 06514 (Greater New Haven)