Two Ford engines land on Wards Top 10 Engines of 2019 list! | McLarty Daniel Ford

Since the days when hot rodders were hopping up the legendary Flathead Ford V8, through the muscle car era when the Super Cobra Jet and Boss 302 Mustangs roared, to today’s high performance Ford cars, trucks and SUVs, Ford has been known for groundbreaking engine design that is the foundation of unbeatable performance.

That long heritage of building groundbreaking engines continues today, and critics are taking notice, with the influential automotive publication Wards including two revolutionary Ford engines to their Top 10 Engines of 2019 List, with the legendary 5.0-liter Dual-Overhead Cam V8 from the 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt Edition sharing the honor with the all-new 3.0-liter Power Stoke turbo-diesel V6 available in the 2019 Ford F-150.

It’s the 25th anniversary of the Top 10 Engines of the Year list for Wards, a century-old publication that has been reviewing and critiquing automobile design and engineering since the days when Ford Model T cars were still rolling off the assembly line. Editors with Wards Auto chose the winners after evaluating 34 engines and hybrid powertrain systems in both laboratory settings and through extensive real-world road testing. It’s the second year in a row that Ford has had two engines on the list. The 5.0-liter V8 is the first eight-cylinder engine to make the cut since 2015.

In a press release announcing this year’s Top 10 winners, the staff of Wards Auto singled out the 480-horsepower 5.0-liter V8 in the 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt Edition, saying that while the Bullitt — which benefits from a wider throttle body shared with the 2019 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 and active exhaust — only gains 20 horsepower over the same engine in the 2019 Ford Mustang GT, “the pitch-perfect version in the Bullitt makes us smile every time we punch the throttle,” with the editors at Wards going on it say, “The Bullitt [Mustang] demonstrates how small changes and careful attention to tuning can bring new life to mature technology and create a whole new level of firepower.”

The Wards editors also had plentiful praise for the 3.0-liter Power Stroke turbo-diesel V6 available in the 2019 Ford F-150, singling out the engine for its smooth and quiet operation and remarkable fuel economy. Introduced in the 2018 Ford F-150, the new, smaller Power Stroke V6 may be smaller than other diesels in the Ford lineup, but it goes big on torque — specifically, a whopping 440 lb.-ft. of torque, enabling maximum towing of up to 11,400 pounds and maximum hauling of up to 2,020 pounds. Wards lauded the 3.0-liter Power Stroke V6 for its compacted graphite-iron block — the same high-tech material used on big-brother Power Stroke diesels in heavy duty F-series trucks — and fuel-sipping direct injection system. “What clinches it for the Wards judges,” the publication wrote in their release, “is the 26 miles per gallon we observed while logging about 800 miles in an F-150 SuperCrew 4×3. That’s the best fuel economy we’ve ever seen in a fullsize pickup.”

It’s two more awards for the already crowded trophy case at Ford, and another feather in the cap of America’s best selling muscle car — the 2019 Ford Mustang — and the best-selling full-size truck for 41 years straight: the Ford F-150!

Want to see what all the fuss is about? Then come see us at McLarty Daniel Ford in Bentonville, where you can test drive both the 2019 Ford Mustang and the 2019 Ford F-150. A warning, though: if you’re like most people, if you take a test drive, you might leave here in a new car or truck! Not that that’s a bad thing! Stop in today, or check out our big selection of Ford Mustang and Ford F-150 models online right now!

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