Last year, Ford sold more than 127,000 EcoBoost-equipped vehicles. Using some of the same technologies found in diesel engines, EcoBoost can improve fuel economy by as much as 20 percent over larger, conventional engines. This year, Ford is expanding its EcoBoost engine technology to not only Escape but Fusion as well.
Many online users have hundreds of âfriendsâ or âfollowersâ on sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The average number of Facebook friends is 130, according to the social-networking site, although many have thousands of associates online.
It is also, roughly, the average number of friends people have on Facebook. Facebook tries to force you to befriend people, because they're the friend of a friend of a friend, and people generously do up to a point, or at least until they get fed up, Dunbar says.