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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
Posts: 48,802
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Ford claims their ecoboost fours are reliable, but I personally have avoided "huffer" engines, either blower or turbo. Why are the car makers going turbo? To comply with CAFE mandates. It's true...don't use the boost, and these little 4 bangers deliver great mileage. Use the boost, and you can almost keep up with a normally aspirated V-8 while enjoying roughly the same mileage as the V-8.
I have zero experience with "huffer" engines because of the thinking I expressed above. I could very well be wrong, but won't be buying a boosted engine car to find out.
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.)
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