ecoboost

Does the car above, posing fancifully in white, look familiar? Well, it should. Although it wears Mondeo badges in the form you see above for the Chinese market – as it does in Europe – the car is basically the same thing sold in North America as the Ford Fusion. Of course, it's ...

Just one year after launching the all-new 2013 Fusion, Ford is reportedly set to alter the sedan's powertrain lineup with the addition of a new 1.5-litre turbocharged three-cylinder EcoBoost engine. A member of Blue Oval Forums apparently got their hands on the ordering guide for the 2014 model ...

A great many buyers fled from full-size body-on-frame SUVs to car-based crossovers in large measure to save fuel. But that doesn't mean there's still not a buying audience for more traditional truck-based utility vehicles, and those consumers doubtlessly wouldn't mind saving some dollars at the ...

Ask and you shall receive. Remember that previous report suggesting that the 2015 Ford Mustang is getting a four-cylinder EcoBoost engine, and that it would be sold in Europe only and not in North America? Well, according to Road & Track, the rumor is only partially true – The Mustang ...

Consumer Reports has taken aim at at small-displacement, forced-induction engines, saying the powerplants don't manage to deliver on automaker fuel economy claims. Manufacturers have long held that smaller, turbocharged engines pack all power of their larger displacement cousins with ...

Breaking the crossover mould There are crossovers that appear like traditional sport utility vehicles and there are crossovers that look more like tall wagons, and then there are some that can't be pigeonholed quite so easily. Lincoln's MKT fits into this latter category. It looks like no ...

With every publication hammering through their "best & worst" lists we couldn't help but wonder about the top news-making announcements and launches this year that sparked conversations, debates, and sometimes heated arguments amongst the enthusiast fray. After careful consideration we have ...

There's an analogy to diesel engines hiding in the new Ford Fiesta with the 1.0-litre EcoBoost powerplant. There's still a segment of the population that has bad memories of diesel engines, and that makes it harder for Audi or Volkswagen to sell their new clean diesels in the US today. Not ...

Ford has confirmed that it will bring its 1.0-litre three-cylinder EcoBoost engine to the North America under the hood of its 2014 Fiesta, previewed in these photos by the global model that debuted in Paris earlier this year. We pretty much knew this was coming, and we'll see the tiny mill on ...