What the Internet Is Saying About the 2024 Ford Mustang and Dark Horse

Despite a fairly late reveal for the East Coast, the new seventh-generation 2024 Ford Mustang has been revealed and heralded as nothing short of the saving grace of the muscle car world, with its revised 5.0-liter V-8 offering up to around 500 horsepower linked to a (still-available!) manual transmission. But that's only the tip of the iceberg with this car, considering there's now the all-new Dark Horse edition, plenty of motorsports news, and a seemingly missing hybrid powertrain option that everyone thought this 'stang would have but that we can explain.

Naturally, the staff ofMotorTrendhave their own coverage of the reveal event and seventh-gen muscle car, with Alisa Priddle taking point on covering the details:

MotorTrend's own head of editorial Ed Loh was pretty jazzed about the reveal:

Our own Alexander Stoklosa apparently didn't learn animals in preschool or something, had this to say about the Dark Horse's logo:

AndMotorTrend's Eric Tingwall's take:

Our own Christian Seabaugh made some points about the GT offering 480 horsepower in the day and age of Hellcats and, well, Hellcats, but still:

Many folks are understandably surprised to find out there's no apparent plans to electrify the Mustang (outside of, you know, the Mustang Mach-E EV SUV), despite previous patented drivetrain layout featuring an engine paired with electric motors that seemed to strongly hint that Ford was exploring a hybrid option for the new car at some point. Here'sMotorTrend's Andrew Beckford with more on why a hybrid or fully electric Mustang coupe isn't happening, at least for now:

Leading up to the reveal, Ford really set the stage. First, there was a week-long Mustang owner parade across the country that led up to Hart Plaza in Detroit, Michigan. Then the owners and media were gathered just as the sun was setting in a makeshift outdoor stage and theater. Here's a clip of the so-called "Stampede" of six generations of Mustang leading up to the final reveal event in Detroit:

Ford Performance driver Austin Cindric was there at the final rally of Mustangs in the plaza, revving away:

Racer, pit crew member, and frequent writer Bozi Tatarevic was right to highlight how exciting Ford's all-in approach to motorsports will be with all the new performance and track variants of the new Mustang:

Speaking of, it looks like Ford also has officially now revealed the upcoming NASCAR Cup Series Mustang model in some of the released materials, among other promised racing variants:

Some big news from the night was Bill Ford's announcement that the Mustang will go and race at Le Mans, which is pretty exciting:

Said Deep, Ford's head of North American communications, praised the Mustang's new "Vapor Blue" paint job:

Mike Levine of the Ford comms team also highlighted the 2024 Ford Mustang Dark Horse's unique "Ember Blue" paint job. A lot of new blues!

Trevor Charles Gowan, a Ford exec, praised the new Mustang design with some renderings and sketches:

And finally, Ford designer Ryan McManus tweeted out a nice, short thread about soon-to-retire Ford chief platform officer Hau Thai-Tang:

Also, be sure to check outHot Rod's coverage of the cool 2024 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet drag racer:

And you can find more MotorTrendcoverage of the 2024 Ford Mustang here.