Ford: FPV Announces Supercharged V8 Engine Program

SYDNEY – Sept 2, 2010: Ford Performance Vehicles today announced a new range of supercharged V8 engines for its Australian-made performance car range.

To be launched in early October, the new FPV GS and GT model ranges will both be powered by all-new lightweight 5.0 litre supercharged Ford V8 engines producing 315kW and 335kW of power respectively.

Both engine configurations are more powerful, more fuel efficient and cleaner than any engines previously offered by FPV.

Developed locally by Prodrive in a $40 million program, the new FPV engines are based on the ‘Coyote’ Ford V8 first introduced in the American Ford Mustang at the beginning of this year.

“The new supercharged V8 engine program represents FPV's biggest-ever investment in the Australian market, and has been the most extensive and exhaustive development program we’ve ever undertaken,” Prodrive Asia-Pacific Managing Director Bryan Mears said today.

“The outcome is phenomenal … these engines are brilliantly responsive, their performance is sensational, and they will take our next generation of FPV models to a level that’s simply unmatched by anyone else.”

FPV’s first-ever supercharged engine, the new V8 is a sophisticated all-aluminium design with double overhead cams and 32 valves configuration, and is fully EuroIV compliant.

Its lightweight and compact size – the Coyote engine is 47kg lighter than the outgoing 5.4 litre Boss 315kW engine – also offers packaging benefits which enhance the handling performance of FPV’s new GS and GT ranges.

The base of the new FPV V8 engine is imported from America in component form and each one is hand-assembled locally by FPV, utilising extensive Australian-made componentry.

“It’s important to emphasise just how Australian these engines are,” Bryan Mears said.

“Although the basis of the engine is imported, all the components utilised in the supercharged configuration are locally sourced, and the engines are completely hand-made by the team at FPV in Melbourne.”

Heart of the Australian engine specification is a Harrop Engineering-developed supercharger utilising Eaton TVS technology.