They didn't want or see a need to continue paying Shelby royalties for the name - and Shelby wanted to sell their own versions.

Stick around and you'll find that we're really smart, except for all the ways we're really dumb. 

Do you guys remember all the comments from people bitching about what it looked like? 😆. 

1.0 boosted to 500 😂😂😂

MME is a great choice for that amount of driving: it's comfortable, agile, and practical.

I could see this being popular for college campuses, resorts, golf courses, and other large properties that require transportation for maintenance activities. 

5 years ago, sure. Today it’s probably the 2 I mentioned and that’s it

That actually makes me realize - Ford probably isn’t using the old Shelby GT350 etc names because they are inevitably going to have to put hybrids in at least some of these models, breaking from the past to these new names (Dark Horse) on some variants gives Ford greater ability to assert, “No, a hybrid V8 can be a Dark Horse because its this new thing we’ve defined over the past 5 years” rather than “Uh Carol Shelby would have loved hybrids if he weren’t dead” to the cargo cult.   Personally I appreciate this because I would greatly prefer Ford innovate with their performance offerings than cling to nostalgia, it makes the line a lot more appealing to a young guy like me who values that innovation. I’d love a hybrid V8 Mustang (or an Ecoboost hybrid which would be a viable daily driver despite it being a joke) and if Ford had to call it a Shelby people would lose their minds.

300K miles over 5 years is 5K miles a month, jeeze 1200 miles a week

Not sure it looks fantastic, it looks like someone stepped on a hatchback in my eyes   The camshell rear looks hideously expensive to replace from a minor fender bender