That money seems wild, as it's largely a GT500 switch-over. The banner ads around the story showed Dark Horse Mustangs commonly available for half of where the SC starts...with an entire aftermarket supplying all the blower kits, suspension mods, etc that anyone could want...while keeping their manual transmissions. Unless they found big weight savings and amazing suspension updates, that price range is completely whacked.  

The party line we were being fed was that the Edge factory in Oakville ON was needed for the Explorer EV... that died on the vine. While that may be partially true, I have no doubt that as a direct gas competitor to the Mach-E, it behooved Ford to kill off the Edge to try to squeeze more unit sales out of the Mach-E.   Speaking of early versions of SYNC, my wife was part of the very early call center team that was set up to help with turn by turn directions and other navigational help. The idea was to grow it to full concierge services, especially with Lincoln, and try to one-up GM's OnStar. It didn't last long, as Ford found people tended to horde the X-number of help calls they were allotted for free, and didn't subscribe to gain more. Still remember her coming home talking about this new SYNC system they were getting training on right from Ford staff, who brought prototype vehicles to little Stevens Point Wisconsin so they could play with the system and learn it.

https://www.motor1.com/news/789394/ford-mustang-dark-horse-sc-price/   From 103k to 170k

Some dealerships are not the best. Mine treats me very fair and the service department takes great care of me.   My experience with my dealership is it’s a two way street. Treat them with respect and they take good care of the customer. Come in angry and with an attitude and it’s going to be a poor experience.

So since they are built "Ram tough" does that mean they are designed for head-on collisions with other Rams?

Tarrifs

Dealerships are a Scam

We had a 2011 Edge.  MFT was a nightmare for probably close to 2 years before they finally resolved the issues.  

I got the mailing that the Integrated Park Module needed a recall due to a software update to ensure that the parking pawl engages properly. (recall #25C69 / NHTSA 25V863) spoke to a service advisor and he tells me about mobile service being available. Appointment scheduled for this AM at 9:00 o'clock. The tech promptly arrives, I had previously positioned my Maverick in the driveway so they could get to it easily, and begins...20 minutes later, he informs me that the software update is completed and away he goes. It does not get any easier than that....other than an OTA update but I think this one was a little more detailed hence the mobile service. I am 100% satisfied. Its a nice day for a trip to the car wash after our Costco run....    

The 2011 Edge was the very first vehicle with MFT followed by 2012 Focus and 2013 Fusion.  They knew it was terrible but had no choice but to launch it and try to fix it because they had no backup plan.  An insider told me there were 1500 bugs at one point close to launch.  The screwup was going forward with the launch plans before MFT was stable.     We know cd4 was hybrid ready since 2013 Fusion had both HEV and PHEV.