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Fiesta will get EcoBoost -- just not when it launches
Amy Wilson
Automotive News
December 2, 2009 - 12:15 am ET
DETROIT -- When the 2011 Ford Fiesta launches, it will be missing one of Ford Motor Co.’s most promoted technologies. But an EcoBoost engine is on the horizon for the new subcompact.
"It’s coming," Derrick Kuzak, Ford group vice president of global product development, told Automotive News.
The Fiesta will go on sale next summer, powered by a naturally aspirated, 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine producing 119 hp and 109 pounds-feet of torque. A turbocharged, direct-injection engine -- hallmarks of the EcoBoost name -- will come later, but Kuzak wouldn’t say when.
Ford has confirmed it will launch a 1.6-liter EcoBoost engine beginning in the European Ford C-Max in 2010. It’s unclear whether the EcoBoost engine for the U.S. Fiesta will be 1.6 liters or smaller. In Europe, the Fiesta is available with naturally aspirated gasoline engines with displacements of 1.6, 1.4 and 1.25 liters.
By 2012, Ford says it will produce 1.3 million EcoBoost engines globally, including 750,000 in the United States. By 2013, EcoBoost is on tap to be available in 90 percent of Ford’s global vehicle lineup.
Amy Wilson
Automotive News
December 2, 2009 - 12:15 am ET
DETROIT -- When the 2011 Ford Fiesta launches, it will be missing one of Ford Motor Co.’s most promoted technologies. But an EcoBoost engine is on the horizon for the new subcompact.
"It’s coming," Derrick Kuzak, Ford group vice president of global product development, told Automotive News.
The Fiesta will go on sale next summer, powered by a naturally aspirated, 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine producing 119 hp and 109 pounds-feet of torque. A turbocharged, direct-injection engine -- hallmarks of the EcoBoost name -- will come later, but Kuzak wouldn’t say when.
Ford has confirmed it will launch a 1.6-liter EcoBoost engine beginning in the European Ford C-Max in 2010. It’s unclear whether the EcoBoost engine for the U.S. Fiesta will be 1.6 liters or smaller. In Europe, the Fiesta is available with naturally aspirated gasoline engines with displacements of 1.6, 1.4 and 1.25 liters.
By 2012, Ford says it will produce 1.3 million EcoBoost engines globally, including 750,000 in the United States. By 2013, EcoBoost is on tap to be available in 90 percent of Ford’s global vehicle lineup.
Source: Automotive News
I know that I tend to argue with Joey on how he's a Ford fan, and I'm a GM fan... but ********... Ford is just pulling out too much win out of its hat lately. I was thinking of getting either a Chevrolet Spark or Ford Fiesta as an adorable and cute daily beater so nobody would be tempted to try and get me to race them on public roads in case I'm not able to afford one of the new Buick Regals, but it looks like Ford has made my decision for me with a stylish 4-door hatchback, SYNC, and boost!
