Ford of Europe will install gasoline direct-injection, spark-ignition engines into some of its smaller vehicles beginning in 2003. Called Duratec SCi - for Smart Charge injection - the engines feature ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 94, Section 2 (1985), pp. 453-463 (11 pages) The FORD 2.5 Litre DI Engine entered volume production in January 1984, as the World's first high speed naturally aspirated direct ...

Ford wasn’t the first automaker to adopt downsized, gasoline, turbocharged direct-injection engines (GTDI) globally (Volkswagen) or even in Detroit (General Motors). It was however, first to making a ...

PSA Peugeot Citroën and Ford today unveiled their first jointly-developed direct injection diesel engine. The first phase of a cooperation deal that will produce a whole new family of state-of-the-art ...

For all the attention lavished on the 2012 Ford Focus, its 2.0-liter four-cylinder has gone relatively unnoticed. But as we learned today, it's a key achievement for Ford and will play a significant ...

Despite intense mainstream media interest in electrics, extended-range electrics, hybrids, plug-in hybrids and clean diesel, it's important to remember that the good old internal combustion engine isn ...

It has been touted as the automotive holy grail, the ultimate marriage of better performance and greater fuel economy. It’s the direct-injection (DI) engine, the latest technology designed to squeeze ...

The partnership between Ford and Navistar International was once considered a model collaboration. The celebrated arrangement began in 1982 and saw International Truck and Engine Corporation (later ...

Ford will be slowly phasing in a turbo combined with a direct injection gasoline engine across their product line in 4 cylinder and 6 cylinder engines. The updated engine technology is expected to ...

For years, Toyota Motor Corp. has put hybrids at the center of its powertrain-technology strategy, all but oblivious to the rapid fuel-economy advancements rivals have made in the humble gasoline ...