Ford's new 1-liter ecoboost engine

[Ry_Tower]

Ford reveals 1-liter EcoBoost engine destined for global market - News | TopGear.com.ph

Another milestone for Ford IMO.

[cityfolk]

It's not exactly a world's first as the 2011 best new engine of the year is the Fiat TwinAir which is 875cc with 84bhp.
Fiat 500 TwinAir driven full road test car review - BBC Top Gear - BBC Top Gear
At least we get a chance to see the Ford engine here. I don't think Fiat has any plans of coming back to the Philippines.

[Ry_Tower]

^ yes, at least this one wll surely hit our shore. Fiat is very questionable if they will come here.

[AG4]

It's not exactly a world's first as the 2011 best new engine of the year is the Fiat TwinAir which is 875cc with 84bhp.
Fiat 500 TwinAir driven full road test car review - BBC Top Gear - BBC Top Gear
At least we get a chance to see the Ford engine here. I don't think Fiat has any plans of coming back to the Philippines.

Fiat's TwinAir has 2 cylinders by the way...
The 1.0 liter EcoBoost combines turbocharging, direct-injection and twin independent variable camshaft timing, same tech found in the bigger EcoBoost engines.

[Ry_Tower]

Fiat's TwinAir has 2 cylinders by the way...
The 1.0 liter EcoBoost combines turbocharging, direct-injection and twin independent variable camshaft timing, same tech found in the bigger EcoBoost engines.

I think this ecoboost will be better. Or it's just me?

[cityfolk]

I think this ecoboost will be better. Or it's just me?

Remains to be seen as I haven't seen any specs quoted for Ford's engine yet. We'll see when Ford reveals the specs.

As for the Fiat TwinAir, there are two turbo versions of it - 85bhp *5500 rpm / 107 lbs-ft*1900rpm and a more aggressively boosted 105bhp*5500 rpm / 115 lbs-ft * 2500 rpm. That's the current world record specific output of 124hp/liter. And look at the torque peaking at such low rpm. That's almost diesel like.

[Ry_Tower]

Remains to be seen as I haven't seen any specs quoted for Ford's engine yet. We'll see when Ford reveals the specs.

As for the Fiat TwinAir, there are two turbo versions of it - 85bhp *5500 rpm / 107 lbs-ft*1900rpm and a more aggressively boosted 105bhp*5500 rpm / 115 lbs-ft * 2500 rpm. That's the current world record specific output of 124hp/liter. And look at the torque peaking at such low rpm. That's almost diesel like.

Malayo pa din sa diesel IMO since diesel engines can peak at just 1,400 rpm.

[niky]

How is it a world record? The Subaru/Mitsubishi rally twins have been getting 150+ hp per liter for decades. Both forced induction, yeah, but so is the Fiat.

[cityfolk]

World record for a normal run-of-the-mill high rate production engine.
Aren't the rally twins are racing engines that are hand built and custom tuned?

[niky]

World record for a normal run-of-the-mill high rate production engine.
Aren't the rally twins are racing engines that are hand built and custom tuned?

Not handbuilt anymore... and never been custom-tuned (if by custom-tuned, you mean car by car)... sales volume for Subaru turbos outweighs the sales volume for the Fiat at the moment.

I agree that the Twin-air is a massively impressive piece of work... but it's not a record for hp/displacement... record maybe for CO2...

[cripple_rooster]

Ford already have offered a 1.0L engine with forced induction some years ago, but was restricted to Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela. It was a version of the Zetec RoCam engines range, used in Mk5 and Mk6 Fiestas, and was fitted with a supercharger and tuned for 95ps.