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[Nick W]

That's no less stressed than a 3 pot turbo trying to shift a Mundeo... It won't end well...

My cousin has a Ford Ecosport with the 1ltr 3 pot turbo, and it goes quite well. 

It's horrible in a Focus. My advice of the week month:


DON'T BUY A THREE CYLINDER FOCUS!

[Doctor Gollum]

That's no less stressed than a 3 pot turbo trying to shift a Mundeo... It won't end well...

My cousin has a Ford Ecosport with the 1ltr 3 pot turbo, and it goes quite well. 

I bet he doesn't use it like he would an XC90

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

That's no less stressed than a 3 pot turbo trying to shift a Mundeo... It won't end well...

My cousin has a Ford Ecosport with the 1ltr 3 pot turbo, and it goes quite well. 

Oh dear.....

[Sir Tigger KC]

That's no less stressed than a 3 pot turbo trying to shift a Mundeo... It won't end well...

My cousin has a Ford Ecosport with the 1ltr 3 pot turbo, and it goes quite well. 

Oh dear.....

Petrol M'lud!   

[TheBoy]

Yup, given that 2.0 4-pot production cars will breach the 400bhp mark*

*Technically mitsubishi did this already with the Evo, but a minute run of 40 odd models hardly counts. 

There are a few mass produced 400bhp 2.0l turbos around now, without the lags of the well known ones from yesteryear just running massive turbos to achieve it.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

That's no less stressed than a 3 pot turbo trying to shift a Mundeo... It won't end well...

My cousin has a Ford Ecosport with the 1ltr 3 pot turbo, and it goes quite well. 

Oh dear.....

Petrol M'lud!   

Yes....but even so.

[TheBoy]

That's no less stressed than a 3 pot turbo trying to shift a Mundeo... It won't end well...

My cousin has a Ford Ecosport with the 1ltr 3 pot turbo, and it goes quite well. 

It's horrible in a Focus. My advice of the week month:


DON'T BUY A THREE CYLINDER FOCUS!

Ignoring its reliability and durability for a minute, it is "usable" in a Focus, and performs better than you'd expect.  In fact, I'd suggest the engine is the best part of a 1l Focus, as the rest of the car is as shite as all Focus' before it.

[Nick W]

My cousin has a Ford Ecosport with the 1ltr 3 pot turbo, and it goes quite well. 

It's horrible in a Focus. My advice of the week month:


DON'T BUY A THREE CYLINDER FOCUS!

Ignoring its reliability and durability for a minute, it is "usable" in a Focus, and performs better than you'd expect.  In fact, I'd suggest the engine is the best part of a 1l Focus, as the rest of the car is as shite as all Focus' before it.

You have that completely arse about face because the engine is awful; slow, noisy, rough, gutless once you get past the small range of boost and horrible to use. The car it is fitted to is better than the preceding models in that it has an almost acceptable driving position, more space, a usable boot and a decent ride. But they achieved all of that by increasing the physical size by a considerable amount rather than engineering it properly. It retains the hideous appearance inside and out, and all the trim still looks and feels cheap.


I'm not convinced about the long term durability either, but then that's true of a lot of modern cars; we've gone backwards, and will be scrapping 15 year old cars as a matter of course.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I'm not convinced about the long term durability either, but then that's true of a lot of modern cars; we've gone backwards, and will be scrapping 15 year old cars as a matter of course.

Um.. That's routine now! 

[Viral_Jim]

But of course. You can't keep all the economic balls in the air if people don't keep consuming and paying interest on their borrows cars