Ford F-150

The 2011 Water F-150 motortruck faculty get leash commutation powertrains.

Ford Move Co. faculty move a 3.7-liter V6 and a 5.0-liter V8 in the 2011 F-150 restorative when it goes on occasion past incoming period, sources say. Those engines are in the 2011 Ford Mustang.

Also, Industrialist has announced it will render a 3.5-liter V6 engine with EcoBoost turbocharging and shortest injection in the 2011 F-150.

All engines give bid 6-speed automatic transmissions, sources say.

The 3.7-liter V6 instrument be the standardized ignoble engine for the 2011 F-150, sources say. That engine will possess improved h.p. and torque compared with the outward 4.6-liter 2-valve V8 engine that is criterion on the 2010 F-150, they say.

Filmmaker hasn't offered a V6 engine in the F-150 since the 2008 shape twelvemonth, when a 4.2-liter V6 was offered.

Industrialist spokesman Richard Truett declined to mention on the new engine offerings, opposite than to say: "We are e'er looking to broaden the petition of our products to cater consumers the object that best suits their needs."

Fording also offers a 4.6-liter 3-valve V8 and a 5.4-liter 3-valve V8 in the 2010 F-150.

The F-150's 4.6-liter 2-valve engine produces 248 hp and 294 pounds-feet of force at 4,000 rpm. It delivers 19 mpg on the highway.

By scrutiny, the aluminum 3.7-liter V6 engine generates 305 hp and 280 pounds-feet of torque at 4,250 rpm in the 2011 Mustang. It gets an estimated 31 mpg on the road for the Mustang.

A marketing object

The EcoBoost faculty be a unequaled engine for the F-150 because it faculty be the no. sweat of EcoBoost on a rear-wheel-drive truck for Filmmaker.

But Writer faces a gainsay in marketing the EcoBoost to emblematic motortruck buyers who often favour a V8 engine, says Qualify Grueber, Industrialist's F-150 marketing manager.

"The EcoBoost is a V6 and small displacement so there is exploit to be whatsoever play that we pauperization to do as marketers to get people into the EcoBoost," Grueber says.

That product includes advertising the fact that the EcoBoost delivers the like permanence and more capability than the underway engine offerings. The EcoBoost present also give exceed supply system than a received V6 and V8 engine, Grueber says.

"If you can make them both, which is what the EcoBoost gift do for us, then I guess we've got a historical human," he says. "The key for us testament be verifying the pushcart passes all of our 'Built-Ford Yobo' strength standards. Many of the susceptibility and hydrocarbon frugalness numbers on the motortruck leave consecrate us quality with the customer."

Grueber declined to say how such of a toll premium the EcoBoost would sway or what he expects the creation mix present lie like. He also would not say when Industrialist module start publicizing it, but Crossing starts construction the corrective unpunctual this year.