Ford DEW platform
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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:
- 2000-present Lincoln LS
- 2000-present Jaguar S-Type (heavily revised for 2003 model year and tweaked again for 2005)
- 2002-present Ford Thunderbird
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:
- B3 - subcompact FWD (ex: Mazda Mazda2)
- C1 - compact FWD (ex: Mazda Mazda3)
- CD2 - small SUV AWD (ex: Ford Escape)
- CD3 - mid-size FWD/AWD (ex: Mazda Mazda6)
- EUCD - mid-size FWD/AWD (ex: next Volvo S60)
- D2C - sports RWD (ex: Ford Mustang)
- P2/P3 - full-size pickup (ex: Ford F-Series)
- U2/U3 - full-size SUV (ex: Ford Explorer)
- T1 - large SUV (ex: Ford Expedition)
- V2 - minivan (ex: Ford Freestar)
- VN - full-size van (ex: Ford Econoline)
- D3 - full-size FWD/AWD (ex: Volvo S60)
- DEW98 - mid-size RWD (ex: Lincoln LS)
- Panther - full-size RWD (ex: Ford Crown Victoria)
- VH - sports RWD (ex: Aston Martin DB9)