Tillbaka till framtiden ? ! !?

[Per Berglund]

Vad är det här?

Någon som vet något om Ford ska tillbaka till "stötstänger" igen?

Bara ombyggd "truck" motor?

Now we're beginning to hear that Ford may be seeking to abandon-or at least augment-its recent modular SOHC V-8 configuration: Informed sources at Ford tell us that a new pushrod 6.0L engine, code-named Hurricane, is on the drawing board now.

It's still a long way off-sources say 2008 or 2009-if, in fact, it even arrives at all. Hurricane is said to be in competition with another, larger SOHC-type engine, and a decision will be made to choose one or the other in the coming months.

The bad news: These engines would be introduced into the ever-heavier F-series truck line, possibly setting up yet another two-V-8 format as Ford has maintained for years (i.e., FE/385, Windsor/Cleveland, etc). The good news: There's no reason (yet) why Hurricane couldn't be integrated into a car line (or two) somewhere down the road.