We might have been moderately impressed yesterday with Ford's new turbocharged 1.0-litre triple, but apparently Ford is also hard at work on an even more powerful version, possibly with up to 145hp.
There had been whispers of a more powerful version bobbing around for a while and, when this story from The Engineer popped up on the thread in yesterday's story, we put two and two together.
So if we're to see a more powerful version of the EcoBoost, then we can almost certainly expect it to be a development of this joint project between Ford, Ricardo, Controlled Powertrain Technologies and Valeo.
In order to get the extra power, the boost on the engine has been turned up, with the VTES (Variable Torque Enhancement System) electric supercharger (CPT's bit) helping to eliminate the turbo lag. The supercharger itself gets its boost from a trick microhybrid system from Valeo that uses regenerative braking as its power source.
All darn clever if you ask us, and the result is a Ford Focus prototype that can muster 145hp and 177lb ft of torque while at the same time emitting just 99g of CO2 per kilometre.
Is any of this officially headed for production? No. Will we see this engine in a Focus sometime soon? We'd put money on it. Will we like it? We hope so...
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