Catastrophic Engine Failure

[Lanyi]

This is a catastrophic failure of the duratec engine.

This photo was taken looking up from under the engine, just behind the oil filter.

This happened in my friend's 05 LS CL Focus Sedan, just last night. The car has only done 60,000kms and the engine has destoryed itself. I have only seen this twice on a car - both turbo cars with high-kms' and some severe flogging - and I am very shocked at this. As you can see from the photo, there is a hole in the block with a stress fracture just left of it as well. We're not going to find out the correct diagnosis for a while, but I think the engine has thrown a rod.

I would hope that there was a build defect in the engine, but with the amount of quality checks that the enignes have probably been subjected to... I'm just not sure...