This List of Ford platforms features

automobile platform A car platform is a shared set of common design, engineering, and production efforts, as well as major components, over a number of outwardly distinct models and even types of cars, often from different, but somewhat related, marques. It is pract ...

s developed by

Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobi ...

, its present-day subsidiaries, as well as those shared from subsidiaries from the past (

Mazda , commonly referred to as simply Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan. In 2015, Mazda produced 1.5 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly one m ...

Mercury Mercury commonly refers to: * Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun * Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg * Mercury (mythology), a Roman god Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to: Companies * Merc ...

Volvo The Volvo Group ( sv, Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distributio ...

Jaguar The jaguar (''Panthera onca'') is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus '' Panthera'' native to the Americas. With a body length of up to and a weight of up to , it is the largest cat species in the Americas and the th ...

, and

Land Rover Land Rover is a British brand of predominantly four-wheel drive, off-road capable vehicles, owned by multinational car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), since 2008 a subsidiary of India's Tata Motors. JLR currently builds Land Rovers ...

). Ford announced in 2014 plans to reduce its vehicle platforms from sixteen to nine."Ford plans to trim global vehicle platforms from 15 to 9 by 2016"
- Reuters.com - DETROIT Mon Sep 29, 2014 2:14pm EDT In 2014, Ford vehicles were built on fifteen distinct platforms. This only applies to Ford and Lincoln and not to any brands that were previously held by the company (such as Mazda and Volvo), and is expected to cut costs by 20%. As of there are five global platforms and four regional platforms. The regional platforms are only sold in some continents and not others.

Table Fields

* Image: Photograph of a single example of each automotive platform. * Platform: Platform code name, linking to article (in some cases, platform articles are substituted with vehicle articles) * Type: Refers to types of

car classification Governments and private organizations have developed car classification schemes that are used for various purposes including regulation, description, and categorization of cars. The International Standard ISO 3833-1977 ''Road vehicles – Types ...

each platform vehicle falls under * Drive: Driven wheels in the drivetrain (front, rear, all, or four-wheel drive) * Production: Years produced, if not currently in production * Region: Primary market for platform vehicles (on a single platform, this can vary by brand and is noted) * Example(s): The nameplates produced on the platform * VIN code: code on the

VIN Vin or VIN may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Vîn TV, a Kurdish language satellite television channel founded in 2007 * ''Vos Iz Neias?'', an American Jewish online news site * Coastal radio station VIN Geraldton (callsign), a statio ...

that designates each platform variation (typically with several vehicles produced on a single platform)

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Current Ford platforms

Virtually all Ford and Lincoln vehicles will use these platforms globally by 2016.

Current Ford platforms (global)

Historic Ford Motor Company platforms (global)

Ford Global Truck/Van/SUV/CUV platforms (current/historic)

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Ford platforms This List of Ford platforms features automobile platforms developed by Ford Motor Company, its present-day subsidiaries, as well as those shared from subsidiaries from the past (Mazda, Mercury, Volvo, Jaguar, and Land Rover). Ford announced in ...