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TriShield @ Mar 31st 2008 8:26PM
Twin-Force was a vastly better name for this new V6 engine.
Turbocharged engines may seem more efficient but nearly all of them use a lot of fuel in performance applications.
If you drive a turbocharged car like a Grand National, STi, or 3000GT as it's meant to be driven they average in the teens for overall fuel consumption, which is not better than most modern V8s out there. Modern V8s will also sip fuel if you drive with a light foot just as a turbocharged engine will.
Turbocharged engines aren't going to magically make performance vehicle money-saving, fuel-sipping green machines. If you really want an economy car, buy an economy car.
Tagg @ Mar 31st 2008 8:35PM
But in an age of green marketing the term "EcoBoost" is more friendly on the ears. The name "Twin-Force" does sound better but the word "force" sounds bad to the greenies and by putting "twin" in front of it means its twice as bad.
It's just more of the "green" marketing crap everyone seems to be buying into. Heck, alot of consumer products that have been on the market for years unchanged are now marketed as "green" and people are buying them now.
psarhjinian @ Mar 31st 2008 9:03PM
One difference between a NA V8 and a TC I4 is weight. It's not as much of a difference as it used to be, but we're still talking a 50-100lbs.
Another is lower frictional and thermal losses, especially compared the cylinder deactivation.
John @ Apr 1st 2008 1:29PM
Twin Force is a name that implies adding two forces (DI & TT) to traditional engines to improve performance. The emphasis is on the performance. This is what GM and others are doing for performance reasons.
Ecoboost on the other hand is a name that seems intended to support the new Ford philosophy of downsizing the majority of their engines for economy and green reasons and adding DI & TT in order to maintain an acceptable level of performance and improved greenest.
It also uses DI & TT, but the emphasis is not on the performance, or on the technology, it is on the use of the available technology to improve economy.
Ford doesn't claim to have invented anything new. It claims to be taking a new business strategy of applying this technology to everyday cars. Ford must do this while maintaining a high level of quality across many cars, so a careful pace would certainly seem appropriate.
And, if they happen to build a few Mustang V8 TTDIs and call them EcoBoost, I could live with that.