Wednesday, May 16, 2012

2012 Ford Focus 1.0L EcoBoost First Drive: Sampling Ford’s 1.0-liter, Three-Cylinder Engine

2012 Ford Focus 1.0L EcoBoost First Drive: Sampling Ford’s 1.0-liter, Three-Cylinder Engine:

2012 Ford Focus 1.0L EcoBoost

With its EcoBoost-branded engines, Ford feels it really has a substitute for cubic inches, and it’s taking the turbocharged, direct-injected concept to extremes. If you think that the naturally aspirated 1.6-liter engine in the subcompact Fiesta is, like the car, a touch on the small side, you will be amazed—maybe horrified—to learn that its replacement has just three cylinders and a displacement of less than one liter: 999 cc, to be precise. (This new EcoBoost engine also will soon find its way into the U.S.-market 2014 Fiesta.) (more…)


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