For all the Ford fans out there!

[jaredszakacs]

ya definately looks like a good motor forsure! me to personnally would have the big v8 i like my power turbos only belong on diesels for vehicles as far as i'm concerned looking forward to seeing my buddies truck perform looks like it is gonna be a good one from what there saying

 

[AreWeThereYet]

And good for ford. My stock 09 150 kicks lotsa hemi trucks at wot ( the wanna be engine not sntrue hemi <--what is this?) but does have tough times against some gm 6.0 and 6.2

I bet you wouldn't have beat my '06 when I had it

On a side note,.. the test was crap

A turbo is another name for altitude compensator, no wonder it pulled on a hill,.. it's boosting air, instead of using cylinder pressure differential. Also it's MPG rating is a measly 16/21, but better in the Focus and Taurus. You think that mileage is gonna be great pulling a 11,000lb load,.. find the nearst gas station on your holidays.

"We're able to decrease the size of the available engine - such as installing a V-6 versus a
V-8 - yet boost the power using turbocharging to deliver similar power and torque of that larger engine."

The Honeywell GT15 turbochargers operate in parallel at speeds of 170,000 rpm. They produce up to 12 psi, and should live for at least 10 years, or 150,000 miles.

Keith Plagens, a turbo engineer for the company, said, "We've tested the turbochargers at a much-higher duty cycle than a customer would ever experience. ... Our whole goal from the beginning was to make the operation of the turbochargers seamless, so the customer wouldn't even know they were there."

If I "were" to get one of these engines I would sure be wary about buying a used one, or being the first guinea pig with the new model,.. I don't care how many trees it saves or less CO2 it creates.

will be nice to see how that v6 works. some big numbers they are claiming.
i would still go with the big dawg at 411hp. imo. no turbos to worry about
but what was it they claimed like 365 or something with a v6 twin turbo. sweet and they still claimed 30+mpg on the highway and 25 or so in town on the sales brochure we got back in november. the v6 is only a limited build availability not going to be alot of them around but will be neat to see if they keep it for a few more years.

It's official: Ford's 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 engine, as seen in the 2011 F-150 pickup truck, has been rated at 16 city and 22 highway by the EPA. And it's also officially the engine to get if you're shopping for a new Blue Oval workhorse.

To put it all into perspective, the 365-horsepower, 420-pound-foot EcoBoost-equipped F-150 offers 3,060 pounds of payload and 11,300 pounds worth of towing capability – both of which are best-in-class – and it gets better fuel mileage than any comparable engines offered by Ford's competitors

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/07/2011-ford-f-150-ecoboost-rated-at-16-city-22-highway/

 

[van isle]

titan rated at 315 hp tundra rated at 381

They are both SAE dyno tested but one is rear wheel the other is crank HP

 

[Sleeper700]

The chevy they put it against had a 3.42 gear ratio. No wonder the Ford beat it so bad. I had a work truck with a 3.42 gear ratio, and it was an absolute dog. Not quite a fair competition IMO.....

 

[DieselDemon]

Cool Cool, now only if they would catch up to dodge and chev in the looks dept

 

[plio7]

i have to jump in on the titan ban wagon here......

i test drove EVERYTHING before i bought my titan, dodge, ford, chev, and drove a buddies tundra......no comparison on the pull, the #'s can say what they want i drove them all, i also ran ford and chev, as company trucks at my last job, and they dont compare to the titan. in my little half ton titan i had an 8' truck camper and towed my boat and could still pull 120kph at 1800 rpm up mild-moderate hills......i have yet to have one person sit in my truck or drive my truck that hasnt commented....."this things torquey" i have abused this truck for over 100,000 km's not and have put one wheel bearing and a battery into it since i bought it. the onloy time it has let me down was at -40 with it not plugged in.

i know people will jump on this post with all they're specs and #'s, and call it BS but truth is, i was a die hard domestic guy until this truck.....and i will never look back at a domestic 1/2 ton again

 

[05Cummins]

Sad thing is you can't even trust the magazine shootouts they usually give the win to the company that spent the most advertising dollars that quater.

Its how they drive there ad sales.