When the 2011 Ford Fiesta launches, it will be missing one of Ford Motor Co.'s most promoted technologies. But an EcoBoost engine ( pictured ) is on the horizon for the new subcompact. “It's coming,” Derrick Kuzak, Ford group vice president of global product development, told Automotive News today (subscription required). Engines equipped with EcoBoost technology are designed to deliver power and torque consistent with larger displacement, naturally aspirated engines while achieving approximately 20 percent better fuel efficiency and 15 percent reduced greenhouse-gas emissions than these same engines. The Fiesta will go on sale next summer, powered by a naturally aspirated, 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine producing 119 horsepower and 109 pounds-feet of torque. A turbocharged, direct-injection engine – hallmarks of the EcoBoost name – will come later, but Kuzak wouldn't say when. Ford has confirmed it will launch a 1.6-liter EcoBoost engine beginning in the European Ford C-Max in 2010. It's unclear whether the EcoBoost engine for the U.S. Fiesta will be 1.6 liters or smaller. In Europe, the Fiesta is available
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