Ford's award-winning 1.0-litre, three-cylinder Ecoboost engine will power the new Fiesta, making it North America’s most fuel-efficient non-hybrid, gasoline-powered car with a certified 5.22L/100km rating on the highway, topping both the Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris.
The fuel economy rating not only establishes the Fiesta 1.0L EcoBoost as best-in-class, but it also outperforms some competitors’ diesels and hybrids on the highway driving cycle. The 2014 Honda Insight achieves 5.35L/100km highway, while the 2014 Volkswagen Golf diesel with a manual transmission delivers 5.6L/100km highway.
This also makes the Fiesta the only car in its class that produces more than 120 horsepower (123 total) and achieve 5.22L/100km on the highway. It also features an overboost function that allows it to make more than 145 lb.-ft. for up to 15 seconds. The engine has also been perfectly weighted for smooth operation despite its uneven number of cylinders.
“With the new Fiesta 1.0-litre EcoBoost we’re pushing into fuel economy numbers only seen on hybrids and diesels,” said Joe Hinrichs, executive vice president and president of the Americas for Ford. “Coupled with the new Fiesta ST, Fiesta covers the performance-efficiency continuum in the subcompact segment better than any other nameplate in the market.”
Automotive journalists named the 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine in the 2014 Ford Fiesta International Engine of the Year in 2012 and 2013. The smallest engine in the growing EcoBoost family is increasingly the choice of Ford customers in Europe, where it is now available on five nameplates, accounting for 32 percent of Focus sales and 26 percent of Fiesta sales in the U.S. this year. Robust demand for the 1.0 litre in Europe prompted Ford to double production capacity at its state-of-the-art Cologne, Germany, plant to more than 1,000 engines a day.
EcoBoost technology combines smaller-displacement engines with turbocharging, direct injection, variable valve timing and proprietary Ford software to bring customers outstanding performance and fuel economy. Ford EcoBoost engines deliver up to 20 percent better fuel economy than larger-displacement gasoline engines.
