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2015 Mustang: Lifting the Hood
Although you have undoubtedly seen as many pictures
as you could possibly want of the forthcoming 2015 Ford
Mustang (and we're including our obligatory shot here,
too), what there has been less attention to is what can be
found under the hood.
One of the more surprising things is a 2.3-liter EcoBoost
engine. 2.3 liter? Even Scott Makowski, EcoBoost powertrain engineering manager admitted, "This EcoBoost engine
q Obligatory 2015 Mustang shot. Moray Callum, Ford
executive director, Design, The Americas: "You only get one
chance to make a frst impression, and when you see this
car you immediately see a Mustang strong and true."
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might be small in displacement"—yes—"but it delivers where
a Mustang driver expects it with a broad, fat torque curve
and great drivability under any conditions." It provides
output of an estimated 305 hp and 300 lb-ft of torque.
The 2.3 features direct fuel injection, twin independent
variable camshaft timing, and turbocharging. It is the frst
Ford engine with a low-inertia, twin-scroll turbocharger.
The cylinder head has an integrated exhaust manifold
that separates the inner and outer pairs of cylinders into
each inlet passage to the turbo. This arrangement keeps
the exhaust pulses separated from the next cylinder in
the fring order so that there aren't any mixing losses
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and there is maximized pulse energy to the turbine