2023 Ford Everest V6: What we know

UPDATE, September 13, 2022: New Ford Everest on sale, and we've driven it!

The new-generation 2023 Ford Everest is finally on sale in Australia, and our man Matt Raudonikis has driven it. Get the full story, and our first-drive video, at the link below.

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The story to here

The 2023 Ford Everest will offer a V6 turbo-diesel for the first time in the nameplate’s history, and while Ford Australia is yet to reveal full details, here’s what we know so far.

The new 3.0-litre V6 will be available in both Ranger and Everest and is from the same ‘Lion’ family as the 2.7-litre turbo-diesel many Australians will know from the 2011-16 Ford Territory.

Developed with PSA and JLR and used in a variety of models including the F-150, in the 2023 Everest it will sit above the 2.0-litre bi-turbo ‘Panther’ as the new premium engine option.

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That means that the bi-turbo will take over the role of the 3.2-litre five cylinder ‘Puma’ turbo-diesel as the standard Everest engine, the five-pot finally dropped from both Everest and Ranger with the arrival of the new models.

Low-spec Everest in overseas markets will also use a single-turbo version of the Panther 2.0-litre, which is seen here in the Ford Transit and forthcoming entry-level Ranger, and while Ford won’t confirm Australian details yet, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to buy an Everest with the single-turbo 2.0L here.

Confirmed as the flagship Everest powertrain from launch in Australia, the 2993cc V6 is an intercooled commonrail turbo-diesel with 60-degree configuration, iron-graphene block and double-overhead cams.

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Likely to be sourced from Dagenham, UK, in the F-Series in the US the powerplant has previously included; variable geometry turbocharging, a two-stage oil pump and a forged crankshaft – all yet to be confirmed for the Everest, and the 2023 Ranger, which will also use it.

Power and torque are still secret, too, but in the 2018 F-Series the 3.0-litre ‘Power Stroke’ made 240hp (186kW) and 440lb-ft (597Nm) from 1750rpm. It has developed even stronger numbers in other products, but those figures easily eclipse the current Everest’s 157kW/500Nm bi-turbo and 3.2L’s 143kW/470Nm.

Following Ranger and Bronco, the V6 will use a new 10-speed automatic transmission, codenamed 10R60, in place of the current model’s 10R80, both of which were co-developed with General Motors.

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Combined with the new V6, which Ford says is a heavier engine than the bi-turbo, fuel economy may be slightly worse – as the Everest is facing a marginal weight increase over the current Everest’s 2283-2477 kilogram weight range. The new larger 21-inch wheels on the flagship Platinum, for instance, will also add mass.

“The V6 is clearly heavier, it’s a bigger engine,” said platform lead, Ian Foston. “If you look at the overall where we ended up, it’s [kerb weight] not that dissimilar to today, but there’s a lot more feature content everywhere. So the question is how do we do that without making it heavier?

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"We’ve made a lot of efficiencies, the frame is significantly lighter than it was before – the hydroformed front-end structure helps as well, we’ve taken out a lot of sheet metal at the front – so what we’ve tried to do is optimise the weight as much as we can.”

The 2023 Ford Everest is scheduled to go on sale in Australia in the second half of 2022, with pricing and additional details yet to be announced.