Snapshot taken August 31, 2026 · Sources: nationwide dealer listings (Cars.com, Autotrader), filtered to the Dark Horse trim, plus verified auction results (Cars & Bids, Bring a Trailer) · Refreshed weekly — prices and counts move constantly
Every week we pull the entire national market for the Ford Mustang Dark Horse into one place — how many are actually for sale, what they’re going for, and where the deals are. No guessing, no “call for price.” Here’s where the market stands right now.
What they’re selling for
Quick heads-up, because listing sites blur this: two very different cars wear the Dark Horse name. The standard Dark Horse — what most shoppers mean — is a roughly $64K–$77K new car (less used). The Dark Horse SC is Ford’s 795-hp factory-supercharged flagship, a six-figure car in its own right. Cars.com and Autotrader lump them together under one trim, so we break them out here — otherwise the SC’s price makes it look like the whole market has gone insane.
| Segment | Price | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| Used, absolute floor | ~$45,600 | 2024 Fastback, 28,621 miles (AutoSavvy, Gilbert, AZ). Unchanged for a second straight week — it’s the same listing, still unsold, still the cheapest Dark Horse in the country |
| Clean, low-mile used | ~$50,000–$54,000 | Where most tidy used cars are landing; several flagged “Good Deal” / “Great Deal” |
| New standard, typical | ~$62,000–$77,000 | Base Dark Horse up through a loaded Premium. The cheapest new car in the country this week is listed at $62,150 — down $700 from last week, still well under MSRP territory (Doggett Ford South Loop, Houston, TX, MSRP $67,020) |
| Biggest genuine markup | +$15,122 | A stock, non-supercharged 2025 Fastback with RECARO seats (5.0L V8, standard Coyote engine, no forced induction, verified via the listing’s own spec sheet): $88,187 asking against a $73,065 MSRP, at Palm Springs Motors Ford in Cathedral City, CA. Unchanged for a third straight week — same listing, still unsold, still the largest genuine markup we’ve ever tracked. (We also caught and excluded two more traps this week: a $93,498 listing at Sheehy Ford of Springfield, VA that’s Whipple-supercharged, and a $90,507 listing at Lugoff Ford in Lugoff, SC that’s a factory FP700 supercharger build — neither is a base-car markup. A genuine, smaller markup of +$7,500 also turned up this week at Ford of Upland, CA.) |
| Dark Horse SC & built cars | ~$100,000–$227,000 | A separate class — the factory 795-hp supercharged SC flagship (six-figure MSRP) plus Hennessey/built cars. This tier grew again, 100→108 listings. The ceiling holds at the same 2026 SC, $227,009 (verified via its own window sticker) against a $176,310 MSRP — a real ~$50,700 demand markup, but on the flagship, not a base car. (The $250,620 Shelby-badged listing — a 2026 Shelby Super Snake-R, an 850+hp aftermarket conversion, not a factory car — is still listed and still excluded from this tier.) |
| Supercharged builds ~$100K–$130K | ~$101,000–$130,000 | The same trap, one tier down. Most of these aren’t markup at all — they’re dealer-built supercharged cars (Ford Performance FP700 kits and similar) where thousands in installed options sit on top of a standard MSRP. Always read the options list before you call something a gouge. |
What they actually sell for (auction results)
Listing prices are what dealers ask. Completed auctions are what buyers actually pay — a real transaction with a final number. Here are recent verified Dark Horse sales from Cars & Bids and Bring a Trailer, most recent first:
| Car | Sold for | When | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Dark Horse “Hennessey H850” — supercharged, 3k mi | $72,888 | Aug 2026 | Cars & Bids |
| 2024 Dark Horse “Hennessey H850” — supercharged, 2k mi | $78,000 | May 2026 | Cars & Bids |
| 2025 Dark Horse Premium — stock, 6-speed | $59,000 | Oct 2025 | Bring a Trailer |
| 2024 Dark Horse Premium — Roush supercharged | $59,500 | Aug 2025 | Cars & Bids |
| 2024 Dark Horse — Whipple Stage 2, 1,300 mi | $68,500 | Feb 2025 | Cars & Bids |
What it means if you’re buying
Inventory pulled back for the first time in over a month, and the two auctions we were watching both delivered strong numbers. Total listings eased 744→732 (−12), and this time it was entirely a used-market story: new held perfectly flat at 503 while used shrank −12 to 229 (including CPO, which dropped 56→50) — dealers weren’t restocking new metal this week, and used cars kept clearing off lots. The used floor held at $45,600 for a second straight week (same AutoSavvy Gilbert, AZ listing, still unsold), and the cheapest new car in the country actually got a little cheaper, $62,850→$62,150 (Doggett Ford South Loop, Houston, TX). The biggest genuine markup on a standard, non-supercharged car held exactly where it was — +$15,122, still the same unsold Palm Springs Motors Ford listing, now into its third week at the top. We caught two more markup traps this week that turn out to be supercharged builds, not base-car gouging: a $93,498 Whipple-modified car in Virginia and a $90,507 factory FP700 build in South Carolina. On the auction side, the two live Cars & Bids listings we flagged last week for “watch next week” both closed: a no-reserve Hennessey H850 sold for $72,888, and a Whipple-supercharged 2026 Premium bid up to $66,666 but still didn’t clear its reserve — a reminder that even strong bidding doesn’t always mean a sale. Bring a Trailer came back online after last week’s outage with its numbers unchanged: still no new Dark Horse sale there in seven weeks. Meanwhile the six-figure SC/built segment kept growing, 100→108 listings, with the ceiling holding at $227,009 on a genuine SC; the $250,620 Shelby Super Snake-R listing is still there and still excluded — it’s an aftermarket build, not a factory car. Autotrader’s nationwide count also pulled back, 827→804. For a shopper, the takeaway hasn’t changed: know which car you’re actually looking at, and there’s still no shortage of fair-priced options out there.
Just compare apples to apples. A clean used standard car is in the low $50Ks; a new one runs mid-$60Ks to upper $70Ks. Don’t let the six-figure listings rattle you — those are the supercharged SC flagship and built cars, a different animal, not a base Dark Horse with a wild markup. Know which car you’re actually looking at, know the real national range, and no dealer can spin you. That’s the whole reason we publish this.
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