Remember that 6.7 liter turbocharged diesel burning V8 mammoth of an engine codenamed ‘Scorpian’ that we told you about last week? Well, it seems that a few more details regarding the hardware have surfaced and from the looks of them, I like what I hear.

Those details state that the engine will be capable of a full 400 horsepower and an impress 725 pounds-per-feet of torque. What’s even better, the car will include “out of the box” compatiblitywith B20 biodiesel.

Fast and environtmentally friendly? Sign me up.

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Unhappy with the current state of affairs with diesel engine supplier Navistar, Ford has instead taken matters into their own hands producing a diesel V8 codenamed ‘Scorpion”.

This turbocharged 6.7 liter  diesel burning V8 engine  has been meticulously deigned in-house by Ford to include just about every modern feature you can think of. Hell, they even put it through tests equivalent of being driven 250,000 miles. We’ll apparently be seeing this appear in Ford’s 2011 Super Duty vehicles.

Ford released a lot of information regarding this new engine, way too much for me to list here, but I’ve included the official press release after the break so you can read all about it.

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