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<blockquote data-quote="joegrizzy" data-source="post: 3730212" data-attributes="member: 45524">pretty sure ford took a LOT from mazda and especially volvo (for a period) in the development of the ecoboost engines. the first ecoboost engines were just straight mazda l engines, now ford has a whole family derived from them. when they started using turbo i4&#039;s and i3&#039;s was when they conveniently owned volvo. pretty sure the 1.6l is made in the UK, probably for that exact reason.i&#039;ve owned i dunno, 10+ cars and trucks, never a single automatic. i&#039;ve settled on single cab, short wide bed chevy&#039;s from the 90&#039;s. had a &#039;95 cheyenne 5 spd with the 4.3l vortec v6. it was still square on the outside, but the inside was starting to get that 90&#039;s rounded ford taurus look.now my truck is a &#039;92 cheyenne 5 spd with the tree fiddy 5.7l small block v8. needs some tires but knocking on wood it just won&#039;t quit. i hyper vigilanced craigslist for months to find it several years ago and thank god i did because every day i have people wanting to buy my truck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="joegrizzy, post: 3730212, member: 45524"] pretty sure ford took a LOT from mazda and especially volvo (for a period) in the development of the ecoboost engines. the first ecoboost engines were just straight mazda l engines, now ford has a whole family derived from them. when they started using turbo i4's and i3's was when they conveniently owned volvo. pretty sure the 1.6l is made in the UK, probably for that exact reason. i've owned i dunno, 10+ cars and trucks, never a single automatic. i've settled on single cab, short wide bed chevy's from the 90's. had a '95 cheyenne 5 spd with the 4.3l vortec v6. it was still square on the outside, but the inside was starting to get that 90's rounded ford taurus look. now my truck is a '92 cheyenne 5 spd with the tree fiddy 5.7l small block v8. needs some tires but knocking on wood it just won't quit. i hyper vigilanced craigslist for months to find it several years ago and thank god i did because every day i have people wanting to buy my truck. [/QUOTE]

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