Editor's note: The author is the only child of Phil Clark, the man who sketched the Mustang's original running-horse emblem. She, like the Mustang, celebrated her 40th birthday in 2004.

The Ford Mustang Dark Horse will be offered with a color-shifting paint color and hand-painted stripes when it goes on sale this summer as the most powerful 5.0-liter Mustang.

For Ford to keep eyeballs on this Mustang as it ages, it must gallop onward. Both the GT and Dark Horse engines run a 12.0:1 compression ratio and use the same voluptuous twin-throttle-body intake.

While this Mustang concept was being finalized in September of 1962, a competition was held between Ford designers where Gale Halderman’s design was chosen as the basis for the running pony logo ...

From the open road to the show floor: I drove the powerful Ford Mustang Dark Horse to a massive national event. Read my personal account of its impressive journey and why it garnered so much ...

UPDATE 12/15/22:Ford has confirmed that the 2024 Ford Mustang Dark Horse's 5.0-liter Coyote V-8 will make an even 500 horsepower and 418 lb-ft of torque—on premium fuel.

The 2024 Mustang Dark Horse is powered by a projected 500-horsepower, 5.0-liter V-8 that hits the half-millennium mark with no help from a supercharger or turbochargers.

The Mustang Challenge is a fully IMSA-sanctioned single-make race series that all owners of a Mustang Dark Horse R can take part in. Racers will compete in two classes, Dark Horse and Dark Horse ...

There’s a horse running in the grille, the taillights have three segments each, and that roofline has been around for a while. The double-overhead-­cam, 32-valve Coyote 5.0-liter V-8 is 88 hp ...