Thursday, May 8, 2014

Ford Sells 500,000th EcoBoost Engine for F-150 as Customer Preference Shifts to V6 Engines



DEARBORN, Mich. - Ford, America’s truck leader for 37 years, marks a major milestone with the sale of its 500,000th 3.5-liter V6 EcoBoost®-equipped F-150.

Just more than three years after its introduction, popularity of Ford’s 3.5-liter EcoBoost engine continues to grow among F-150 customers as its cumulative fuel savings continue to increase.

In the past 38 months, F-150 EcoBoost owners collectively have saved an estimated 56.8 million gallons of gas on an annual basis. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, that’s equal to:

•The annual greenhouse gas impact of 413,895 acres of U.S. forests
•A city in which 70,000 homes going without electricity for a year
•6,685 tanker trucks’ worth of gasoline
•Installing 139 wind turbines

 For the third month in a row, more than 57 percent of retail sales of Ford F-150 light-duty trucks are powered by V6 engines – reversing 47 years of V8 engine dominance in the industry. More than 45 percent of these sales are trucks equipped with Ford’s 3.5-liter EcoBoost.

Over the last three years, retail registrations of light-duty pickups powered by V6 engines grew more than 600 percent, with F-150 directly responsible for 91 percent of that growth, based on Ford analysis of Polk retail registration data.