Ford has 5 million EcoBoost engines built

Posted on 18-03-2015 at 13:46 by MauritsH – 1 Comment”

The blue oval has a big milestone achieved with their EcoBoost line.

The model in which the five millionth copy is spooned is a Ford Focus 1.0 EcoBoost. Per month, but as many as 200,000 engines with this label produced, which among other things will find their way to the Mondeo’s and Fiesta’s, but also to serious stuff like the upcoming Ford GT. That last model is available with a V6 fitted.

The first car with an EcoBoost engine, the Ford Taurus SHO, which is a 3.5-liter V6 in the cabin. In that year, incidentally, is still not 15,000 of these engines built, the production in the years that followed quite grown.

Under the EcoBoost engines are located blocks with a content of 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.3 litres, in addition, there are two V6’and with a content of 2.7 or 3.5 liter. In addition to the aforementioned Ford GT, we are waiting with smart on the new Focus RS, which has more than 315 horsepower from its 2.3-litre engine will turn. The precise ability is unfortunately still withheld.