Autocar UK pits Formula Ford EcoBoost against Germany’s finest: the BMW M6, Audi R8 and Mercedes A45 AMG. The new road-legal Formula Ford EcoBoost is turbocharged, open-wheeled racer with 200-horsepower from a 1.0-liter, three-cylinder engine. The race also weighs only 495 kilograms and it’s road-legal in the UK. While racing at Nurburgring, the Formula Ford EcoBoost scored a time of just 7:22. The fuel consumption is 2.4 liters every 100 kilometers (118 mpg). Unfortunately t

The Formula Ford is a low-capacity turbo that's cheap to run and still fun to drive Formula Ford is the starting point for most Formula One champions, and to celebrate this, Ford has combined the single-seater with the award-winning 1.0-litre three-cylinder EcoBoost engine from the Fiesta in a roadgoing version of its racer. • Ford news and reviews Engineers have added the larger turbocharger from the Fiesta ST, so the tiny engine produces 170bhp – up 47bhp on the most powerf

What is it?: A cynic might argue that Ford’s 1.0-litre EcoBoost-powered – but still just about road legal – Formula Ford is little more than a marketing exercise; a meaningless diversion from reality that's designed to showcase the talents of Ford's award-winning EcoBoost engine. And in one sense, the cynics might well have a point. But from an engineering point of view, and also purely from a petrolhead's stance, this car is a whole lot more relevant than that. It's an intri