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Driven: The £135k Ford Mustang with an 800hp punch


Of course, you can have as many or as few of these modifications as you like.

One of them is surprisingly sensible for what is overall quite a silly car. On the normal Mustang, you can have heating within the standard seats but not the optional (and more comfortable) Recaros. As part of the retrim, Clive Sutton adds heating to the latter, which works with the standard button. Clive Skoda might describe it as simply clever.

Aside from the very loud exhaust, the first thing you notice when driving the CS800DH is that the powertrain is impeccably behaved. I suppose it’s to be expected, given this is an official Ford Performance kit, but there’s no strange running or uneven power delivery and it retains the progressive long-travel throttle pedal. In normal driving, this just feels like a Dark Horse.

Have the guts to actually press the pedal all the way, though, and it’s madly fast, with a ferocious rush at the top end of the rev range. Second gear tops out at 75mph and somehow still feels too short for you to really experience the power. It pulls almost as hard in third, so it ideally wants a track or a German autobahn to be fully uncorked.

I’m sure an upper-end Porsche Taycan or similar electric car is actually faster, but the thunderous exhaust, power delivery and having to think about changing gear somehow all make it more real.



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