Ford, the Detroit automaker, is going to present a full range of force-fed gasoline engines, although it took quite a long time for it to jump aboard the turbocharged engine bandwagon for mainstream. Being the smallest production engine ever, the new 1.0-liter EcoBoost engine represents the company's latest offering, promising to deliver performance of a larger four-cylinder unit featuring even higher fuel economy and employing all EcoBoost technologies, such as direct injection, turbocharging together with twin independent variable camshaft timing, Ti-VCT. It could be admired for the first time in the Ford Start concept mini at the 2010 Beijing Show, and more recently in the Ford B-Max study, presented at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. It will be available in North America and will be launched globally in Ford's small cars. It is the result of great efforts made by the engineering team at Ford's Dunton Technical Centre in the UK. According to Derrick Kuzak, Ford group vice president of Global Product Development, the new three-cylinder unit is planned to deliver horsepower and torque outputs which are equivalent to or even better than most normally aspirated 1.6-liter gasoline engines, but he refused to provide numbers on the matter. He added that customers were telling them that they wanted to buy affordable vehicles that got many more miles per gallon. The new engine is going to offer them hybrid-like fuel economy together with a more affordable choice. As Ford did not mention which models were going to receive the tiny EcoBoost engine, the Ka and the Fiesta are expected to be found among the first Ford models to be available with this petrol unit. Further technical details related to the new 1.0-liter EcoBoost engine will be provide at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, in Germany, in Spetember.