Ford Custom Garage Creates New High-Performance, Dealer-Available Packages
What Car Shoppers Need to Know
- The Ford Custom Garage program allows customers to buy turnkey package vehicles at Ford dealers that are ready-to-go collections of Ford accessory and performance parts.
- A series of vehicles focusing on the Bronco, F-150, Maverick and Mustang are available in varying degrees of priciness and capability, can be purchased from a local dealer, and are warrantied and financeable.
Ford is expanding its new aftermarket parts and accessories efforts with the Ford Custom Garage, a group that takes the work out of you leafing through parts catalogs to assemble a high-performance Ford and instead offers you a turnkey package. Thus far, the company’s efforts have focused on its bestsellers: the Bronco SUV, F-150 and Maverick pickup trucks, and Mustang coupe. The company recently invited the press to NASCAR track Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., for a look at the group’s latest offerings, as well as some drive time on track and an autocross to see just what these parts packages sum up to.
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What Is the Ford Custom Garage?
Ford does some pretty solid aftermarket parts and accessories business, with the company stating that the majority of its owners also purchase some kind of accessory for their vehicle. The company responds to this by creating a significant catalog of parts available for all of its vehicles, which customers can order piecemeal through the Ford accessories catalog, packages from the Ford Racing Parts catalog, or now through fully assembled and installed special-edition vehicles through the Ford Custom Garage service. All of Ford’s parts come with a warranty that matches the vehicle they’re installed on if installation is done by a Ford dealer or approved outlet. Essentially, you can order high-performance shocks through the Ford accessories catalog, a Ford high-performance suspension through Ford Racing Parts or a Ford Mustang SP800S through Ford Custom Garage, all at your local dealer or online. Parts purchased and installed on the vehicle can even be financed with the purchase price of the vehicle in most cases. It’s a way for Ford to boost dealer revenue, grab additional money from customers wanting to personalize their vehicles, and to try and mask the fact that there don’t seem to be any new vehicles coming from the Blue-Oval brand … and haven’t been for a while now. But what Ford has created with these new vehicle packages is pretty interesting. Here are some highlights of Ford’s new high-performance custom models.
Mustang FP800S: Your Bargain Dark Horse SC
There are a lot of high-performance variants of America’s bestselling sports car available at your Ford dealer. The standard GT is no slouch, but you can also splurge on getting a Dark Horse, the upcoming Dark Horse SC, a GTD if you’re independently wealthy and best friends with your local Ford dealer’s owner, or even an RTR Spec 3 or Spec 5 tuner car, right from the showroom floor. But Ford has created another option based on Ford Racing Parts’ catalog of goodies: the FP800S Package.
It starts with a 3.0-liter Whipple supercharger under the hood, an intercooler, and a lot of plumbing upgrades and powertrain calibrations that produce 800 horsepower from the 5.0-liter Coyote V-8. Add in suspension upgrades (either the standard steel suspension or optional MagneRide electronic suspension), lowering springs, special bodywork, exhaust, badges, 20-inch wheels in black or bronze and more, and you have a high-powered supercharged Mustang that isn’t a Shelby or a Dark Horse SC but that anyone can buy. The package costs $18,500 for all of this, but that doesn’t include installation by a Ford-authorized facility as a “ship-through” vehicle directly to the dealer (or it can be installed at the dealer itself).
The FP800S Package is meant to give customers another option for personalization, but it’s not going to be cheap. Factor in around another $10,000 for installation, and you’re looking at nearly $75,000 to start for an FP800S Mustang — but this is still considerably cheaper than a Mustang Dark Horse SC is expected to be, and even potentially cheaper than a similarly equipped RTR Spec 3 Mustang from racing driver Vaughn Gittin Jr.’s RTR Vehicles.
The sum of these various parts, however, has created a Mustang FP800S that is eminently civilized but ready to be a track weapon for enthusiasts looking for fun weekend adventures. It’s athletic without being punishing, and it handled the short road course I was able to drive with ease. The adjustability of the FP800S is extraordinary, allowing you to adjust the vehicle to the conditions, track, tires you’ve selected and more. The fact that you can order it from nearly any Ford dealer and finance it like any normal Mustang just makes getting one that much easier. It’s a truly solid upgrade from a normal GT, a good less expensive (but ultimately less exclusive and less flashy) alternative to the upcoming Dark Horse SC and a bit less interesting than an RTR Spec 3.
F-150 FP700S: Great (Until the Ram Rumble Bee Gets Here)
Over in the truck stable, we’ve already driven one of Ford’s offerings, the supercharger kit for the F-150 V-8 that turns it into a screaming 700-hp, bare-bones sporty rig. But if you want something a bit more than just the supercharger bolted into your V-8 F-150, Ford would like to show you the FP700S. It takes the same formula as the FP800S Mustang and applies it to Ford’s full-size pickup. The 3.0-liter Whipple supercharger and intercooler, a sport exhaust, lowering springs and sport suspension, special badges and styling, bigger wheels and performance tires can be added onto any V-8-equipped F-150. This means you can pop it into a standard-cab, short-bed XL for the lightest possible offering or add it to your loaded-up Lariat crew cab for a supercharged luxury truck with genuine performance chops.
I got to sample the FP700S on a brief half-mile drag strip set up at the track and can confirm that it is indeed quick — but a more in-depth review of the model will have to wait for a longer drive. The basic F-150 Lobo trim with the supercharger alone is a lot of fun, as I saw in my prior time with one, but to fully experience the FP700S will have to wait until I can get one in my driveway to see how easy it is to live with. The cost for the FP700S Package on an F-150 is $26,895 including installation, meaning the least expensive FP700S you can get will run you a minimum of $67,000, including the truck itself. And that’s fun — until you realize the upcoming 2027 Ram 1500 Rumble Bees that we’re about to see from Ford’s crosstown rival will be coming soon with three V-8 options, new styling, a special bed and cab configuration, and an interior that isn’t anywhere close to being a bare-bones F-150 XL. Only the supercharged Rumble Bee SRT will be able to match the FP700S’ horsepower figures, so I sense some fun comparison tests coming in 2027.
Maverick SV300T: The Power the Lobo Should Have Had
In the small-truck category, Ford is offering the SV300T Package for the Maverick. It’s yanked the bigger turbocharger out of the 2.3-liter Mustang’s standard EcoBoost engine and slapped it on the 2.0-liter Maverick’s powerplant; upgraded the intercooler, software and powertrain calibration and brought in upgraded suspension, big wheels and tires; and created an all-wheel-drive successor to the Focus ST. It’s available for $5,000 plus installation.
Bronco Desert Rising: I Know a Barbie Bronco When I See One
The Bronco SUV has also gotten a lot of attention from Ford Custom Garage, but it’s mostly to do with appearance and equipment packages rather than engine performance upgrades (stay tuned, however). And new on the scene is this: the 2027 Bronco Desert Rising. Likely a fun response to the Tuscadero Pink paint offered on several model years of Jeep Wrangler, the Desert Rising brings magenta Katzkin leather seats, white Method wheels, a pink do-it-yourself modular grille and front bumper, and special graphics inside and out to create one of the more memorable-looking Bronco packages we’ve seen in quite some time. The whole thing adds an extra $13,695 (installed) to the Bronco Outer Banks trim, which itself rings in at $57,350, making this Barbie-pink Bronco a $71,000-plus machine.
The Desert Rising Bronco joins nearly a dozen other special Bronco packages, some offering up just black or bronze trim packages, some going more in depth with lift kits and wheels, all available through the Ford Custom Garage program.
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