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Thứ Sáu, 4 tháng 12, 2009

2010 Ford Taurus SHO

Ford Taurus SHO, one of America's admired "sleeper" achievement cars, allotment to the Ford lineup, powered by a Super High Output (SHO) EcoBoost accompanying turbocharged engine. The Taurus SHO joins Ford's growing calendar of achievement cartage for the 2010 archetypal year, architecture on the bequest of the original, which becoming a atom on the Car and Driver 10 Best account four years running.

"The new Ford Taurus SHO delivers on the accurate sleeper auto blueprint but adds all-new luxury-appointments, accessibility appearance and technologies to an incomparable antithesis of ability and ammunition economy," said Mark Fields, Ford's admiral of The Americas. "This new action acquired answers enthusiasts' calls for a exceptional Ford flagship auto with alike added attitude."

Introduced in 1989, Ford Taurus SHO was conceived as a alert performance-oriented sports sedan, alluringly ill-fitted to the automotive enthusiast defective the allowance and adequacy of a four-door full-size car. Produced through 1999, added than 100,000 were sold.

The aboriginal Ford Taurus SHO generated a loyal afterward of owners and enthusiasts, with an alive club added than 1,000 associates strong, an online appointment with added than 10,000 registered users and a Web armpit (bringbackthesho.com) accurately adherent to acceptable Ford to disclose the SHO. The 2010 Ford Taurus artefact development aggregation spent cogent time alert to SHO enthusiasts.

EcoBoost™ Twin-Turbocharged Power

The foundation of the new 2010 Taurus SHO is a 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged EcoBoost V-6 engine. This advanced powerplant generates an estimated 365 horsepower at 5,500 rpm and 350 ft.-lbs. of torque at 3,500 rpm, resulting in significantly improved power, torque and fuel economy compared with larger, normally aspirated engines. This also is Ford's most powerful EcoBoost engine.

A key feature of this EcoBoost engine is gasoline direct injection. The direct injection of fuel into the cylinder during the intake stroke, as opposed to port-style injection to an externally mounted intake, produces a well-mixed air-fuel charge. Fuel vaporization during the intake stroke cools the incoming air, improving volumetric efficiency and lowers the likelihood of knock.

The results are improved throttle response, reduced cold start emissions characteristics and improved fuel economy. The cooled charge enables an increased compression ratio, improving efficiency at partial load, while the higher compression ratio allows for better volumetric efficiency under full load engine behavior. Customers will experience normally aspirated V-8 power, without compromising V-6 fuel economy.

The 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 also uses twin turbochargers, as opposed to a single unit. The reduced size of each turbocharger results in reduced internal inertia, allowing this advanced engine to avoid the "turbo lag" often prevalent in earlier-generation turbocharged applications. From the driver's seat, the rewarding result is linear power delivery across a broad torque band from 1,500 through 5,500 rpm. Peak torque building quickly off idle ensures responsive acceleration from a standing start.

2011 Ford Fiesta

Ford's hot-selling new Ford Fiesta will bear added than aloof abundant looks and top ammunition abridgement of any agent in its articulation back it goes on auction in North America in 2010. The 2011 Fiesta - accessible in four- and five-door anatomy styles - additionally will set a new baby car criterion for safety, connectivity and powertrain technology.

In fact, Ford Fiesta will action North American buyers a beautiful new best of 15 class-exclusive technologies and projected artery ammunition abridgement of 40 mpg, besting the Honda Fit, Nissan Versa and Toyota Yaris and Corolla.

"Customers are savvy. They appetite alive cars that bear not aloof abundant ammunition abridgement but additionally aerial quality, new technologies and a fun active experience," said Mark Fields, Ford admiral of The Americas. "We plan to acknowledgment the alarm with Ford Fiesta; an all-new agent in North America we achievement will set a new accepted for baby cars."

Ford Fiesta is the abutting anniversary beneath the ONE Ford plan to architecture and advance cartage that accommodated the differing needs, wants and expectations of barter about the world. Added than 500,000 Fiestas accept already awash to barter in Europe and Asia.

When developing the new Fiesta, Ford conducted all-encompassing all-around chump research. Findings acutely adumbrated the charge for appearance topped the account of chump desires everywhere in the world. In Europe, beyond North America and in the Asia Pacific region, barter are attractive for a abnormally advised baby car that offers world-class quality, convenience, abundance and connectivity.

2011 Ford Grand C-MAX

An all-new, two-model Ford C-MAX ambit makes its all-around admission at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show. The agitative new Ford C-MAX ancestors brings new levels of appearance and agreeableness to the bunched multi-activity agent (MAV) market, with a adventurous and activating new attending which extends Ford's acclaimed 'kinetic design' language.

For the aboriginal time, Ford's MAV barter will accept the best of a 5-seat Ford C-MAX or the new 7-seat Ford Grand C-MAX, which appearance accompanying sliding doors and avant-garde bench architecture to accommodate outstanding amplitude and flexibility.

The all-new Ford C-MAX ambit introduces a cardinal of avant-garde new technologies to the bunched MAV chic focused on added comfort, assurance and sustainability, including the availability of new and able yet awful fuel-efficient low-CO2 Ford EcoBoost petrol engines.

The new Ford C-MAX models are additionally the aboriginal articles to be launched from Ford's new, all-around C-segment agent platform, and are previewed at Frankfurt in pre-production anatomy above-mentioned to their European sales barrage in backward 2010.

Additionally, Ford is acknowledging that the Ford Grand C-MAX archetypal will additionally be alien in North America in backward 2011, abutting the new Ford Fiesta, the Transit Connect bartering van and the next-generation Ford Focus as one of six European-designed models promised by the aggregation beneath its 'One Ford' strategy.

2011 Ford Super Duty

Ford Super Duty barter apprehend and appeal adequacy from the acknowledged able barter in America. For best Super Duty owners, it's the amount asset of their business. Day afterwards day, year afterwards year, it's accepted to bear after-effects in the best ambitious situations. No nonsense. And never any excuses.

"Our Super Duty barter do some of America's toughest jobs," said Mark Fields, Ford admiral of The Americas. "Every day they're out there alive with little alarum and all they ask is the appropriate apparatus for the job. The new 2011 Ford Super Duty offers them a barter with best-in-class towing and payload, all-new powertrains and alike added adequacy than anytime to advice them do their jobs."

Ford's F-Series has been the acknowledged band of trucks in the U.S. for 32 beeline years. The new Super Duty added underscores Ford's Built Ford Tough legacy.

"The 2011 Ford Super Duty offers the widest arrangement of solutions for the widest arrangement of able assignment barter customers," said Chris Brewer, arch engineer. "The Super Duty calendar offers a array of anatomy styles and powertrains, from agent and gasoline engines, anniversary with a new six-speed transmission, to auto trucks and anatomy cabs, anniversary with the towing and burden capabilities that ascertain Super Duty."

New diesel and gasoline engines deliver improved torque, horsepower, fuel economy

For 2011, Super Duty features both an all-new diesel and gasoline engine that are mated to a new transmission. The new diesel, the 6.7-liter Power Stroke V-8 turbocharged diesel engine, was designed, engineered and built by a Ford team dedicated solely to delivering this class-leading diesel engine to the next-generation Super Duty to enable continued best-in-class towing and payload.

Benefits of the new 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel engine:

First use of a compacted graphite iron (CGI) engine block in a Super Duty-class vehicle in North America; CGI is stronger than cast iron, and Ford successfully has used the material in engine blocks in products around the world. The block structure was optimized for reduced weight and maximum strength to meet the demands of higher torque and more horsepower and enable class-leading fuel economy.
Unique inboard exhaust and outboard intake architecture, an automotive-industry first for a modern production diesel, reduces overall exhaust system volume, which leads to better throttle response; a reduced exhaust system surface area minimizes heat transfer to the engine compartment and improves NVH (noise, vibration and harshness).
The turbocharger features an industry-first dual-sided compressor wheel that works in a single housing. The unit is uniquely center-mounted on a pedestal low in the back of the valley for improved NVH. The design allows the single unit to deliver the advantages of a twin-turbocharger system in a smaller, more efficient package, combining the benefits of a small turbocharger (faster response) and a large turbocharger (ability to compress and force more air into the engine for more power) in one unit.
The high-pressure fuel system injects fuel at more than 29,000 psi. The system delivers up to five injection events per cylinder per cycle using eight-hole piezo injectors to spray fuel into the piston bowl. The direct-injection system is calibrated and phased for optimum power, fuel efficiency and NVH.
Aluminum cylinder heads for reduced weight; the mid-deck construction with dual water jackets provides increased strength and optimal cooling; six-head bolts, instead of four as found on other engines, help improve sealing and maintain cylinder integrity even with the higher firing pressures.
Compatible up to B20 fuel, allowing greener fueling options of up to 20 percent biodiesel and 80 percent petroleum diesel.