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.
But even the median user has a lot of reach, with 31,170 people connected through friends-of-friends. (MORE: Facebook Timeline: 5 Things You Need to Know) Statisticians probably figured this out a long time ago. After all, with the average Facebook user having 245 friends according to Pew, and the average friend of that user having 359 friends, one personâs reach can easily get into the tens of thousands even after you account for overlap.