Ford has announced a few more engines that will join its EcoBoost range of ‘downsized’ turbocharged engines with direct injection. One is a 1.6 litre inline-4 EcoBoot which will be slotted into the European Ford C-MAX MPV. This is a particularly interesting engine – just imagine what fun it’d be if it gets slotted into the small Ford Fiesta?
The engine has two tunes – one 150 horsepower and the other more powerful version featuring 180 horses and 244Nm of torque. The 1.6 litre EcoBoost even in its 150 horses form can also probably easily serve as a replacement for the normally aspirated 2.0 litre in the Focus. But this probably won’t happen in all countries as with the debut of the new Focus at Detroit 2010 early this year, Ford also introduced a new direct injection normally aspirated 2.0 litre Ti-VCT engine making 155 horses and 195Nm of torque that will be slotted into the new Focus.
Next is a 2.0 litre inline-4 EcoBoost that will be slotted into larger Fords such as the Ford Explorer, the Ford Edge and the Ford Mondeo. With 200 horsepower at 5,500rpm and 300Nm of torque from as low at 1,750rpm this would be an awesome replacement for the 2.3 litre Duratec in the current Mondeo. Lastly there is a revised version of the original 3.5 litre V6 EcoBoost optimized for the Ford F-150 pick-up truck.
Ford also unveiled that it is working on a version 2.0 of the EcoBoost range that adds Exhaust Gas Recirculation to its existing list of technology including direct injection and turbocharging. This variation of EGR typically used in diesel engines will take abit of exhaust gas, cool it in a heat exchanger, and pump it back into the cylinders. This apparently has the effect of reducing combustion temperature, which ultimately benefits the car’s power and fuel economy – by a figure of approximately 5% according to Ford. EGR is also primarily used to reduce the amount of NOx produced during combustion.
Ford is also apparently working on small three cylinder and even a two cylinder EcoBoost unit, although they are still a few years away from production. They could feature in the next generation versions of small Fords like the Ka and the Fiesta.
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180 ponies and 244 Nm of torque from a 1.6 L engine???
Yes please…
=D
Fiesta with turbocharged 1.6 liter … yummyy
Turbo really gives you wings..
Well, well. Seems like technology is providing the balance of having power while maintaining low fuel consumption. Should say the age of turbo power is coming?
finally the americans understand what is small cc engine with good performance…
they have to look at the east…admitting effiency is the real power to go…
Up the goddamn petrol quality in malaysia first, our petrol is probably like cheap kerosene and vodka mix with water/organic contamination to these new engines.
Leading the technologically advance green powerful engine are European follows by American.
Poor Japanese marque are far behind!!! unless they start copying Europeans and American again like backs in the 70s ~80s
Far behind?
The Japanese where the first to run direct injection production engines, variable cam timing, high specific output powerplants and turbocharging technology in mass market cars.
We just don’t get them here doesn’t mean the Japanese can’t do them. The onlt thing the Japanese are lagging behind is diesel.
I wonder how much of Ford’s ecoboost is taken from Mazda’s Direct injection turbo engines from the Mazdaspeed 3 and 6, 2 generations ago.
Yeap…Japs are lagging on the diesel tech, thanks to their auto policy against diesel.
Just imagine, most of honda’s model in euro using the 2.2 idtec diesel…crv/accord/civic/FRV…etc2…just one diesel compared to renault/pug/bmw/merc/fiat/hyundai/kia with lots of diesel ranges from small to large
Latest Europeans make engines may it be gasoline or diesel has 30,000KM service interval + low FC + low CO2 emission.
Try name me any Japs engines that can match it !
i would say american is the last…..
japanese?…did u forget kancil turbo?
kancil turbo from the dinosaur era!
High FC & High toxic CO2 = Cancer fatality!
i was trying to say small cc engine with turbo era implementation
i think ur car also got high toxic co2, cause a catalytic converter need to be change every year,……
benchmark this proton, on ur phoenix
From the Ford Webpage:
“The twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 engine’s enhanced fuel-charging system, and the fuel pipe that feeds them, are good examples of the collaboration between Ford and its suppliers – in this case Bosch.(…)
The EcoBoost system uses two Honeywell GT15 turbochargers(..)Close collaboration between Ford and Honeywell created a system that met Ford’s rigorous durability and safety criteria”
http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=29946
Why don’t P1 mangers buy a flight ticket to visit Bosch & Honeywell? A 1.6 EcoCampro with fuel injection from Bosch and turbo from Honeywell/Garret with 180 horses and 244Nm of torque would surely find enough buyers.
Just kidding & dreaming… ;)
Bring it on Ford , lets see the hardware , more exciting days ahead