Okay, this is an out and out love song to a car, the Ferrari Daytona. (The twelve wild horse are the 12 cylinders of the engine). 

This song is essentially in the key of C, but moves about a bit and makes use of the Flat3 and Flat 7 chords (Eb, Bb). For me it's the outro where Rea takes this song out onto the open road. The harmonic movement from C to Am is left behind in the garage and the roar of the riff of tonic to flat 7 takes over, with the slide moving dynamically, like an accelerator pedal.

This rhythmic figure and motif leads us into the title track of the album following The Road to Hell (1989), Auberge (1991). that is the focus of this lesson.

There's echos of Knopfler and Clapton all over this, but Chris's vocals and themes makes it all his own. There are some great versions out there. This concert in Aberdeen UK, 1993 on BBC Radio One is worth a listen.  (Daytona features as the second song. (Auberge is the first, so perhaps they were well connected in chris' mind.))