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I don't normally spend a lot of time an engine stands with you but in this case we should you never see 3-cylinder engines in the United States they've always been considered kind of an oddball a smart car accepted speaking of oddballs but now Ford's about to make their first three cylinder engine ever and roll it out here in the US and the Fiesta and here's that engine right here it's a one liter little tiny guy three cylinder direct injection turbocharged that's that EcoBoost stuff the idea here is to make everything better than the base 1.6 liter inline four so 123 horsepower 145 foot-pounds of torque both those numbers are up from the standard engine which is bigger and better MPG fewer cylinders always delivers that benefit they don't have numbers yet but let's assume this car can do pretty close to 40 average just based on the volumetric efficiency of this design now this kind of an engine is also going to be one that has a higher amount of torque because it's got that turbocharger that should mean it's more fun to drive than the current normally aspirated engine the downside these EcoBoost motors tend to cost maybe about a thousand dollars more than their nearest lower tech sibling in the forward line if I do the back of the envelope math right at four dollar gas and about 15,000 miles a year you should earn back that premium in around three years and then have this little gravy mill saving you money every year after that this little guy comes out in the 2014 FIFA that's going to be a late 2013 arrival you