International Engine of the Year 2013 – Ford EcoBoost wins again

International Engine of the Year 2013 – Ford EcoBoost wins again

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Results of the annual 2013 International Engine of the Year Awards, voted by a panel of 87 motoring journalists hailing from 35 countries around the world, have just been announced at the Engine Expo at Stuttgart, Germany. Engines are sorted into eight categories based on displacement with a further three special categories created for new engines, green engines, and performance engines. The category winners then qualify to be in the running for the Overall Engine of the Year Award.

Repeat winners from past years are possible as the award is open to engines that power vehicles still on sale in most parts of the world, and for only the fourth time in the award’s history, a defending winner successfully retains the Overall Engine of the Year crown. Amassing a total of 479 points from the judges, the Ford’s 1.0-litre 3-cylinder EcoBoost engine held off the challenge of Volkswagen’s EA111 twin-charged engine, itself a two-time winner, to take home the big prize.

Ford’s 1.0-litre triple, boosted by a Continental-developed turbocharger, also retained its Sub 1.0-litre crown from last year and was placed fourth in the Green Engine category. The BMW and Volkswagen Groups were big winners too, taking home a combined five awards and having a total of 19 engines (including Porsche and Lamborghini under the VW Group) nominated in the entire award. These two makers monopolized the 2.5 to 3.0-litre category, with Porsche’s 2.7-litre flat-six in first place and Volkswagen’s 3.0-litre V6 TDI in sixth place sandwiching a quartet of BMW 3.0-litre six-cylinder engines.

Volkswagen was particularly strong in the 1.0 to 1.4-litre category, its TSI engines occupying all of the top four places. Interestingly, the newly-introduced 1.4-litre turbocharged EA211 engine with cylinder deactivation (ACT), which won the New Engine award, is placed fourth in its category behind three versions of the EA111 engine, which is ironically the engine that the EA211 is meant to replace in the long-run. Whilst the EA211 remains firmly an engine for the future, the present belongs to the twincharged 1.4 TSI engine which retains the category award for the eight successive year.

BMW’s 1.6-litre Prince engine is another serial winner of the award, picking up the 1.4 to 1.8-litre category gong for the seventh successive year. Its haul of 317 points in the category proved sufficient to keep Volkswagen’s 1.8 TSI and Ford’s EcoBoost T4 engines at second and third places respectively. Mazda’s new SkyActiv engines are also fast gaining recognition from the panel. Despite not winning a single award, Mazda engineers had every reason to walk home with their heads held high, as a trio of its 2.0- and 2.5-litre SkyActiv-G petrol and 2.2-litre SkyActiv-D diesel engines generated a combined tally of five nominations between them.

Newly introduced in this year’s award is the Engine Technology Development of the Year award, which is separately evaluated by a panel of 11 journalists with technical background plus one leading academic to serve as judges. This category is aimed to honour innovations made by powertrain component suppliers had 12 nominees and from that pool, the each judge was asked to name and rank his/her top eight innovations and score them accordingly with eight points awarded to the judge’s own choice of first place, seven points for second place and so forth. The winning innovation was Bosch’s hydraulic hybrid powertrain, which edged out Continental’s EMS3 engine management system by a haul of eight points.

New Engine
1. Volkswagen EA211 1.4-litre TSI ACT – 234 points
2. Ferrari 6.3-litre V12 – 220 points
3. Mazda 2.5-litre SkyActiv-G – 136 points
4. Jaguar / Land Rover 3.0-litre V6 supercharged – 130 points
5. Tesla full-electric powertrain – 129 points
6. Fiat 875cc TwinAir CNG – 114 points

Green Engine
1. Fiat 875cc TwinAir CNG – 184 points
2. GM 1.4-litre range extender hybrid – 181 points
3. Tesla full-electric powertrain – 139 points
4. Ford EcoBoost 1.0-litre 3-cyl – 137 points
5. Mazda 2.2-litre SkyActiv-D diesel – 126 points
6. Toyota 2ZR-FXE 1.8-litre Atkinson cycle plug-in hybrid – 94 points

Performance Engine
1. Ferrari 6.3-litre V12 – 294 points
2. Ferrari 4.5-litre V8 – 185 points
3. McLaren M838T 3.8-litre V8 – 183 points
4. Porsche 3.8-litre flat-six direct injection – 149 points
5. Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2-litre V8 – 109 points
6. BMW M S63B44TU 4.4-litre dual twin-scroll turbo V8 – 100 points

Sub 1.0-litre
1. Ford EcoBoost 1.0-litre 3-cyl – 557 points
2. Fiat 875cc TwinAir – 329 points
3. Volkswagen 999cc 3-cyl – 235 points
4. Renault / Nissan 898cc 3-cyl TCE turbo – 144 points
5. Volkswagen 999cc 3-cyl CNG – 118 points
6. Fiat 875cc TwinAir CNG – 91 points

1.0 to 1.4-litre
1. Volkswagen EA111 twincharged 1.4 TSI – 411 points
2. Volkswagen EA111 turbocharged 1.4 TSI – 191 points
3. Volkswagen EA111 turbocharged 1.2 TSI – 188 points
4. Volkswagen EA211 turbocharged 1.4 TSI ACT – 180 points
5. Fiat 1.4-litre MultiAir – 172 points
6. GM 1.4-litre range extender hybrid – 105 points

1.4 to 1.8-litre
1. BMW/PSA 1.6-litre Prince turbo – 317 points
2. Volkswagen EA888 1.8 TSI – 231 points
3. Ford 1.6-litre EcoBoost T4 – 145 points
4. Toyota 2ZR-FXE 1.8-litre Atkinson cycle plug-in hybrid – 127 points
5. Mercedes-Benz M270 1.6-litre turbo – 102 points
6. Volkswagen EA827 1.6-litre TDI – 101 points

1.8 to 2.0-litre
1. BMW N20 2.0-litre twin-scroll turbo – 295 points
2. Volkswagen EA113 2.0-litre TSI – 278 points
3. BMW N47 2.0-litre turbodiesel – 262 points
4. Mazda 2.0-litre SkyActiv-G – 194 points
5. Volkswagen EA827 2.0-litre TDI – 165 points
6. Ford EcoBoost 2.0-litre 250PS – 122 points

2.0 to 2.5-litre
1. Audi 2.5-litre TFSI five-cylinder – 368 points
2. Mazda 2.2-litre SkyActiv-D diesel – 331 points
3. Mercedes-Benz OM651 2.1-litre CDI – 185 points
4. Mazda 2.5-litre SkyActiv-G petrol – 144 points
5. Mercedes-Benz 2.1-litre diesel hybrid – 142 points
6. Ford / PSA / JLR 2.2-litre turbodiesel – 142 points

2.5 to 3.0-litre
1. Porsche 2.7-litre flat-six direct injection – 259 points
2. BMW N54 3.0-litre twin turbo – 244 points
3. BMW N57 3.0-litre turbodiesel – 240 points
4. BMW N57S 3.0-litre tri-turbo diesel – 233 points
5. BMW N55 3.0-litre twin-scroll turbo – 196 points
6. Volkswagen 3.0-litre V6 TDI – 112 points

3.0 to 4.0-litre
1. McLaren M838T 3.8-litre V8 – 333 points
2. BMW M S65B40 4.0-litre V8 – 320 points
3. Audi / Bentley 4.0-litre TFSI – 281 points
4. Porsche 3.8-litre flat-six direct injection – 268 points
5. Porsche 3.4-litre flat-six direct injection – 206 points
6. Nissan VR 3.8-litre V6 twin turbo – 175 points

Above 4.0-litre
1. Ferrari 6.3-litre V12 – 270 points
2. Ferrari 4.5-litre V8 – 250 points
3. Mercedes-AMG M157 5.5-litre V8 turbo – 158 points
4. BMW M S63B44TU 4.4-litre dual twin-scroll turbo V8 – 156 points
5. Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2-litre V8 – 148 points
6. Lamborghini 6.5-litre V12 – 124 points

Overall Engine of the Year
1. Ford EcoBoost 1.0-litre 3-cyl – 479 points
2. Volkswagen EA111 twincharged 1.4 TSI – 408 points
3. BMW N20 2.0-litre twin-scroll turbo – 247 points
4. Porsche 2.7-litre flat-six direct injection – 245 points
5. Ferrari 6.3-litre V12 – 233 points
6. BMW/PSA 1.6-litre Prince turbo – 197 points
7. McLaren M838T 3.8-litre V8 – 180 points
8. Audi 2.5-litre TFSI five-cylinder – 111 points

Engine Technology Development of the Year
1. Bosch’s hydraulic hybrid powertrain – 61 points
2. Continental’s Engine Management System 3 – 53 points
3. Denso’s Li-Ion battery pack for stop/start applications – 49 points
4. Federal-Mogul’s IROX – 43 points
5. Delphi’s Multec – 38 points
6. BorgWarner Beru’s dual-coil ignition technology – 36 points
7. Hidria’s glow plug – 32 points
8. Prufrex’s Intelligent Power Ignition-S system – 31 points
9. Continental’s Power Electronics Technology – 30 points
10. Federal-Mogul’s high-performance aluminium diesel piston – 24 points
11. SKF’s turbo ball-bearing unit – 19 points
12. Enerpulse’s Pulstar – 16 points

KON

Pictures: Autoworld archive and official manufacturer’s release.

See also:
International Engine of the Year 2009
International Engine of the Year 2011 results announced
Awards Spotlight: International Engine of the Year 2012

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