OMFG: Turboboosters and torque

svo could make sense if it was plenty light. itd be cooler though if ford built something miataesque with a ecoboost. revival of xr4ti???

grimmelshanks wrote: svo could make sense if it was plenty light. itd be cooler though if ford built something miataesque with a ecoboost. revival of xr4ti???

Why not just put an Ecoboost in an MX-5? Make it a Mazdaspeed MX-5.

really? is that whats in it now?

Tom Heath wrote: I want to do my own comparison. As that article points out, Mustang is significantly cheaper than the Hyundai, and way cheaper than the Z. (Read that sentence again...the times, they are a changing.)

for a car that was touted as cheaper than the 350, the 370 sure is damn expensive. i remember looking at 04-05 z's and they started around 23, with a fully optioned track package coming in just a shade over 30. now the thing starts at 30, and fully optioned is touching 40+

grimmelshanks wrote: svo could make sense if it was plenty light. itd be cooler though if ford built something miataesque with a ecoboost. revival of xr4ti???

Cool, it would be an unreliable Miata!

Even more like the british cars they have supposedly replaced.

Shawn

P.S. I mean unreliable in the XR4TI way, not the Ford way. I love my F-150

ClemSparks wrote: I suppose if I tried to write an article about chemisty or medicine and tried to sound smart to other people who don't know anything about the subject(s)...I'd probably sound about the same as the author of that article. But...I wouldn't do that.

I have a feeling we're seeing a blatant example of the "words is words, any journalist can write about anything" school of interchangeable-employee management.

Carson wrote: So either no one's tried to help her out, her editor doesn't know anything about cars either, or she's damn cute and gets away with anything.

Maybe she has a maps and such as.

Will wrote: This reminds me of that recent story that claimed you can convert an Airsoft to a real AR-15 by just swapping in a real receiver. And without a background check of any kind. Facepalm.

I remember that. There was much discussion on FARK, involving people familar with the item in question.

I remember few of the details, but: An automatic weapon is defined by a single component, kind of like how a car is defined by its shell. You can change every other component and it's still the same car, legally. Vice-versa, if you own a shell, legally you own a car.

The problem was that that specific component on the airsoft was similar enough to that of a fully automatic (whichever) that you could convert it into a fully automatic firearm.

Mind you, this is also the same legal environment where if you own a semi-auto firearm, and know how to convert it to auto, and you have the means (files? a drill?) to convert it, then you have a fully automatic weapon. I'm sure you could try to prove in court that you never modified the thing, while the newspapers and evening news bleat about how the BATF shut down an illegal weapons shop being run out of a local man's basement...

ReverendDexter wrote: I concur, but everything I've heard is that Ford is pretty adamant about NOT putting an ecoboost motor in the Mustang. That, and to get the weight down to where an SVO makes sense would probably make it confusingly expensive to most buyers (wait... they want *how* much... for a 4-cylinder?)

STIs and Evos seem to be selling well enough...

Ford's game plan is to replace the 5.4l V8 with the 3.5l Ecoboost. The current V6 will be replaced by a 2.5l Ecoboost, and the current four will be made 1.6l.

Basically, Ford is going to be all about shedding 25-40% displacement and making up for it with direct injected turbo goodness.

They are also going to have a twin-clutch style transmission in their entire product line. I saw the figure 90%, not sure if that meant that they expected 90% of different models to have it available, or that they expected 90% of production to be a twin-clutch.

Either way, Ford's future looks very, very promising.