{"id":166882,"date":"2010-01-11T12:28:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T17:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/11\/fords-ecoboost-engines-moving-ondown\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T17:28:54","slug":"ford%e2%80%99s-ecoboost-engines-moving-on%e2%80%a6-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/166882","title":{"rendered":"Ford\u2019s EcoBoost Engines Moving On\u2026 Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4420\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/01\/fiesta2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in high school, I had a friend who drove a 1972 Cadillac Eldorado. The thing was a literal land\u00a0yacht powered by a 500 cubic inch engine with enough torque to burn the tires at 60 mph. 500 cubic inches = 8.1 liters. This thing could displace more volume than four bottles of Mountain Dew. And there was a time people thought engines would only get bigger.<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward forty years, and everyone is running in the opposite direction. How small can we get an engine? Well Ford seems to think its EcoBoost technology can take engines to less than a liter, and plans to introduce a whole slow of low-volume engines during 2010 for Europe and North America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/11\/fords-ecoboost-engines-moving-ondown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more of this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=yrLy059TgMk:BTfGfdjX6o0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=yrLy059TgMk:BTfGfdjX6o0:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=yrLy059TgMk:BTfGfdjX6o0:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=yrLy059TgMk:BTfGfdjX6o0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=yrLy059TgMk:BTfGfdjX6o0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=yrLy059TgMk:BTfGfdjX6o0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=yrLy059TgMk:BTfGfdjX6o0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=yrLy059TgMk:BTfGfdjX6o0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/yrLy059TgMk\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ttn5qXUOG4qN73nKjhyl2JKN8d8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ttn5qXUOG4qN73nKjhyl2JKN8d8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ttn5qXUOG4qN73nKjhyl2JKN8d8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ttn5qXUOG4qN73nKjhyl2JKN8d8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/RenewableEnergyNewsSyndicator\/~4\/qrwU_tknaio\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in high school, I had a friend who drove a 1972 Cadillac Eldorado. The thing was a literal land\u00a0yacht powered by a 500 cubic inch engine with enough torque to burn the tires at 60 mph. 500 cubic inches = 8.1 liters. This thing could displace more volume than four bottles of Mountain Dew. 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