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Honda and Ford should get together.
The 1.0L EcoBoost can do 123 hp and 125 ft-lbs torque.
Add to that the 15 hp and 46 ft-lbs of torque from an IMA motor in a Civic Hybrid, and you've got roughly 140 hp and 170 ft-lbs of torque.
IMA gives torque down low. Assist weakens as RPM climbs; but by then, the turbo is spooled up and boosting nicely.
Gear it low so that it's doing 2,000 RPM at 60. Just barely fast enough to have the turbo going. Those of us who like 55 would be completely out of the turbo on the highway, and our economy would skyrocket.
Even more awesome would be if they could map a zone from 45-55 where the turbo isn't spooled up, and it drops into lean burn.
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