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Encyclopedia > Ford DEW platform

DEW (or DEW98) is Ford Motor Company's mid-size rear wheel drive automobile platform. The platform debuted in the Lincoln LS sedan. A less-expensive variant, DEW Lite, was to be used for the 2005 Ford Mustang, but that car will now use the Mazda-derived Ford D2C platform.


Vehicles

This platform is used in the following vehicles:

Future vehicles to use this platform:

  • Ford 427 large sedan

Cancelled vehicles that were to use this platform:

  • 2004 Ford Fairlane - Ford gets a large CD3 car instead
  • 2004 Lincoln D310 - Small lincoln sedan will use the Ford CD3 platform instead
  • 2005 Ford Mustang - Will use D2C instead

See also

Current Ford platforms:


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Ford's response was to move the Thunderbird upmarket, while some fans of the classic Thunderbird consider 1966 to be the last year of interest.
In 1987, the Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe was redesigned and came with such notable features as automatic ride control, anti-lock brakes, and the intercooled turbocharged engine from the Ford Mustang SVO.
Ford Motor Company, like the Chrysler Corporation, was hit hard by the recession in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Both the new Ford Thunderbird and the new Lincolns were produced at a new assembly plant at Wixom, Michigan, built as part of a corporate expansion plan to increase the sales of up-market cars (Mercurys, Lincolns, and Thunderbirds).
Perhaps to emphasize the Ford Thunderbird's closer ties to the Lincoln marque as it moved upmarket, the rear doors were backward-opening suicide doors as on the 1960s Lincoln Continental.
The new Ford Thunderbird was based on the Ford DEW platform, shared with the Lincoln LS.
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