I’ve been a busy, busy Fiend lately. Aside from hooning the delicious Covertte Convertible Z51, the good people at Ford had us up to the company’s Michigan Proving Ground to sample the much celebrated 3.5-liter twin-turbo Ecoboost engine in the 2010 MKS. The Blue Oval has spent a good amount of time pontificating on the [...]
What, think it’s not Fiendish? I’m here to tell you a 350 horsepower all-wheel driver is the epitome of Fiendish. Expect a full-on We Drive tomorrow. Mmm, progress.
The boys at the Blue Oval have set pricing on the first car to carry the mythical Ecoboost twin-turbo 3.5-liter V6. The 2010 Lincoln MKS can be had with the miracle mill for $47,760. If you were wondering why the posts dropped off the face of the planet yesterday, it’s because I was helming this [...]
Could it be? Dare we hope? According to an interview with Automotive News, FoMoCo suit Herman Salenbauch – responsible for future product R&D – says the company is considering bringing the 305-pony Focus RS stateside for the 2011 product update. Considering the Blue Oval’s push to have an Ecoboost option available for every model in [...]
If all this business about Ford’s new turbo four-cylinder sounds familiar, it should. Turn back the clock a decade or two and you’ll see the Big Three doing a dance that mirrors today’s pretty closely. No, there were no federal bailouts on the books, but years of cranking out heavy breathing, heavy drinking bruisers came [...]
Ford’s got a good chunk of time and money invested in its fabled Ecoboost program. All-new engine architecture and turbo research isn’t cheap, no matter how you slice it. Of course getting cheeseburger-happy Americans to give up their big-ol’ honkin’ V8’s for V6’s and swap six-pots for four-bangers just might be a hard sell. To [...]
Now we’re talkin’, Fiends. If Ford had rolled out a Focus concept with the Lincoln C Concept’s bitchin Ecoboost power plant at the Detroit Auto Show, I would have done back flips to shake the designers’ hands. It looks like Ford’s mulling the possibility of dropping the 1.6-liter turbo four banger into the next Focus. [...]
It’s no secret that Ford’s bringing back the beloved SHO. Like the old SHO, the new Super High Output car will be based on Ford’s Taurus. Can we expect to see 928-like Yamaha headers underhood? Nope. Power is going to come from inside Ford. Everyone’s thinking EcoBoost, and we’ve got no reason to disagree (though [...]
Remember that gangly awkward chick you knew in high school? The one with the glasses? Now how about the first day of school after summer break when she came strutting in all curves and contacts after a months of pubescent glory? Odds are you do. Now keep that in mind when you check out the [...]
It’s only logical that since the new Mazda3 showed up in LA and the 5-door version debuted in Detroit that Geneva will play host to the unveiling of the all new MazdaSpeed3. So says Autoblog. What Autoblog don’t say is what sort of motivation will be found under the Speed3’s hood. It could be the same, [...]
