2024 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Premium

After almost 30 years on the bench, the turbo 2.3-liter four returned in the 2015 Mustang EcoBoost making a heady 310 horsepower. That engine carries on in today's seventh-generation 2024 Ford Mustang EcoBoost, with a 10-speed automatic the only transmission available. Ford substantially revised the engine, which now features direct and port fuel injection, a smaller twin-scroll turbo, and an electronic wastegate. Output barely budges, with a small bump to 315 horsepower and the same 350 pound-feet of torque. The optional High Performance pack doesn't net the slight horsepower increase it did last year but otherwise includes a similar list of desirable upgrades. Chief among the goodies are 19-inch Pirelli P Zero PZ4 summer tires, a 3.55:1 limited-slip differential of the Torsen variety, and a performance-tuned suspension. You also get sizable Brembo six-piston front calipers and four-pot rears, a strut-tower brace, and an electronic pull-up parking brake activator that can lock the rear wheels using the hydraulic brakes. This new EcoBoost is the quickest four-cylinder Mustang we've tested, with a 4.5-second 60-mph time that feeds into a 13.2-second, 103-mph quarter-mile. The Brembos and Pirellis do the business under braking, hauling the Mustang to a stop from 70 mph in 149 feet and from 100 mph in 293 feet. There's also plenty of stick on the skidpad, with 0.95-g orbits easy to pull off.