Paul A. Eisenstein, the Detroit Bureau
Ford offers a new 1, 2.0-liter small car next year start three-cylinder version of its turbocharged EcoBoost Powertrain family on the updated Fiesta, and although no final figures for the option-saving fuel has worked, one official senior company promised that it will bring more than 40 miles per gallon.
"We forecasts are, that it will deliver by any of our competitors, higher mileage than any non-hybrid car," said Ford Motor Bob Fascetti, Director of operations global, during a news conference Monday.
Ford has an aggressive thrust itself as the greenest automaker, a major challenge given the market perception of the arch-rival Toyota - this is the world's most popular hybrid vehicle to market the Prius. But Ford has an array of conventional hybrids and battery-electric vehicles, with two plug-in hybrids, the fusion of Energi and C-Max Energi, due to debut at the LA Auto show rolls were later this month.
Meanwhile, the manufacturer shall continue on the rise with his high-tech EcoBoost line-up. Currently there are three versions of the family of the Turbo in the United States, a 1, 1.6-liter inline-4, a 2.0-liter I-4 and a 3, 5-liter V-6 available. The latter engine is now 42% of the Ford F-series pickup sales of purchasable option, officials conducting the company even surprised.
"The old adage now obsolete there is no replacement for displacement, is," Fascetti said.
Since the launch in mid-2009 of the EcoBoost technology, Ford has sold worldwide more than 520,000 of the motors and the demand for 2012 will be expected to be more than 270,000 after Fascetti. Ford wants to have sold worldwide until the end of 2013-equipped vehicles 1.3 million EcoBoost. Until then the different versions will line up North American available in 90 percent of Ford's.
Economy in comparison to similar size with an average improvement 20 percent fuel gasoline engines, Ford has a viable alternative to both diesel and, in some cases, hybrid technology the EcoBoost. EcoBoost makes replacing the hybrid option when starting Ford its new escape crossover earlier in the year 2012.
The new version will be the Powertrain, at least at the moment from Ford's engine plant in Cologne, Germany, be imported though it is possible to shift production in the United States with strong enough demand would be - to avoid the penalty of shipping costs and an uneven dollar/euro exchange rate.
While fuel economy is clearly a major selling point, the new 1, 2.0 liter EcoBoost engine will be also significantly more power supply - 123 HORSEPOWER and lb-ft of torque 148 - as the Fiesta 1 standard output, 6-liter I 4 makes it 120 HORSEPOWER and 112 lb-ft. The naturally aspirated engine produces 29 mpg city, highway 39 and 33 combined. To beat the best non-hybrid models now on the market, EcoBoost the 44s would have to rise by about 20 percent or more this number.
Some consumers may be initially wary of the small-displacement engine – and the historical record shows that the traditional-3 designs have had various problems with noise, hardness, and reliability. Ford has been taken a series of measures aimed at improving the 1.0-litre EcoBoost on all counts and eliminated effectively also other problems such as delay, usually with supercharged engines.
The new engine uses a small, but fast-spinning Turbo, which is tightly coupled to the exhaust manifold. It makes the exhaust fumes that "spool up" or a Turbo spin, so faster printing the less delay it builds at the start is from the State.
Previous three-cylinder engines usually with complex and heavy balance shafts were equipped, Ford a flywheel balance and pulley, inherent vibration and noise powertrains with an odd number of cylinders which effectively neutralize adopted.
Noise levels were reduced further by a rubberized belt, rather than a metal chain and passing through a reservoir.
The new 2.0-liter engine is while the smallest EcoBoost family, it is also the most demanding, after Fascetti, suggested that "while we update the other EcoBoost engines we some of the same technologies will accept."
1, 2.0 Liter EcoBoost model year Ford be mid-2013 on the 2014 Fiesta small car available. Officials indicated that it will probably carry a premium over the larger, but less technically demanding 1, 4-liter I 4 - as with other versions of offered in other products Ford EcoBoost line up.
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