For the second year in a row, Ford has won the top title in the International Engine of the Year awards.
As in 2012, it is Ford's 1.0-litre EcoBoost engine that earns the automaker the accolade, achieving the highest accumulated score in the 15 years that the award has been handed out.
The new three-cylinder engine heads New Zealand's way later this year as an option in the facelifted Fiesta hatch, though in Europe the engine is also used in the Focus, B-Max, C-Max and Mondeo and is the staple offering in the Indian-built EcoSport baby SUV.
A panel of 87 automotive journalists from 35 countries are responsible for choosing the world's best engines, and this is only the third time an automaker has managed back-to-back victories.
Voters were impressed by the smallest EcoBoost engine's power output - 90kW between 1400 and 4500rpm, 201 Newton-metres of torque from 1400 to 4000rpm - and its compact size.
Ford has demonstrated that the package is small enough to fit in the overhead bin of a passenger airplane and its overall footprint can fit on single sheet of A4 paper.
With so many applications which will soon extend to several Transit Connect models, Ford is to increase production of its smallest engine in the plant at Cologne, to meet demand.
The engine may not be Ford's smallest for long, as it is expected that a parallel twin 650cc version may soon see the light of day.
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