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	Ford Mondeo - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mondeo is produced at Ford's European plants in Germany and Belgium, as a sedan (saloon), hatchback or wagon (estate).
		In response to Ford's claim that it was a 'world car', Ford dealers retorted 'What world was it designed for?' The Contour and Mystique proved unpopular with US buyers, who preferred the larger local model, the Taurus, and was dropped in 2000.
		This platform will also form the basis of the replacement for the Galaxy MPV (CD340) sold in Europe, but not the new Ford Fusion in the US or the Mazda 6 in Japan.
	www.iridis.com /Ford_Mondeo (1395 words)

	Articles - Ford Mondeo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mondeo is produced at Ford's European plants in Germany and Belgium, as a sedan (saloon), a 5-door hatchback or a wagon (estate).
		It replaced the Ford Sierra in Europe, and the Ford Telstar in a large portion of Asia and other markets, while the Contour and Mercury Mystique replaced the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz in North America.
		By contrast, the model was retained by Ford New Zealand, which had more success with the new Mondeo, voted as Car of the Year in New Zealand in 2001.
	www.cat-center.com /articles/Ford_Mondeo (1614 words)

	Ford 1000 Bond with Early Car Vignette
		The Ford CDW27, on the other hand, was a highly sophisticated car with two all-new, state-of-the-art, high-output engines; a new electronically controlled transmission; new electronic traction control; air bags; anti-lock brakes and other technological refinements desired by customers.
		CDW27 became the prototype for a new approach to product development that is both highly efficient and customer-driven — a global "platform strategy" that uses many common components to produce vehicles that are widely differentiated to meet the varying needs of different regions.
		Ford also is established in many other businesses-including financial services, automotive replacement parts, and electronics.
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,ford-1000-bond,339312.html (922 words)

	Ford Mondeo
		Ford attained much of its fame and present status from the highly successful model T, a car produced at a very large scale at the beginning of the previous century.
		Ford’s factories in Europe are concentrated mainly in Germany, the United Kingdom and Belgium.
		Ford estimated that through the higher volumes, it was able to reduce the cost of supplies by $150 a car.
	asgard.kent.edu /collabwork/mondeo.case.htm (6810 words)

	COOL CATS: Cougar History
		Ford wished to continue the style leadership it virtually owned in the mid-'80's, so it freshened up the Cat in 1987 with flush glass and headlamps, while still retaining the same basic shape.
		But Ford engineers were promising that the 5.0 was on the way, and none too soon: it was very evident early on that this Cat was a little overweight.
		Ford did make a 30th Anniversary model, partially to continue tradition, and partly to make a limited edition car before the rear drive model was cancelled.
	www.coolcats.net /welcome/cougarhistory.html (1782 words)

	Program Codes
		Platform = CD1 (this is Ford’s internal code for their new product development realisation of platforms and it covers all carlines).
		Without changing the platform the most major change to a platform is a re-skin — where the whole outer sheet changes and perhaps some minor changes are made to the floorpan and engine compartment.
		A less drastic change to the same platform is a major facelift (but this is still a major change); for example the change from the Toyota Carina to the Avensis where the front and rear changed substantially.
	www.miru.com /progcode.htm (446 words)

	Ward's Auto World: U.S. automakers take a new spin; the world has changed and so have they - Global Engineering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ford's global engineering strategy is complex, but it's based on some fairly simple principles: abundant technical resources and economies of scale.
		Ford has narrowed down the number of sets available to three worldwide that are produced in local markets and thus readily available.
		Ford has yet to introduce a fuel-stingy, high-performance turbocharged direct-injection diesel (TDI) to compete with a number of TDIs from automakers such as Volkswagen AG and GM's Adam Opel AG.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3165/is_n3_v34/ai_20393258 (1371 words)

	Programme du GERPISA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ford and GM have not definitively turned their back on the idea of introducing certain elements of modular production in the US, where BMW's and Mercedes' greenfield plants have gone the furthest with these methods (Pries, 1999).
		In fact, it is at its Resende truck plant in Brazil that VW first introduced the concept of modular consortium, whereby operators working for components makers assemble their module directly on the assembly line, under the supervision of a VW staff member.
		Ford wants to be "the world's leading consumer company for automotive products and services", and GM "the clear innovation leader in product and services".
	www.gerpisa.univ-evry.fr /programme/index.html.en (8726 words)

	AutomoBear.com - The Fusion at Ford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Analysts balked at the level of effort Ford invested, noting the extra $1,200 in costs over the outgoing generation, and perhaps even Ford itself was a touch nervous.
		Ford - whose strategy depends on retaining enough of the brand's value to make capitalizing on cars such as the Mustang strategically credible - remains convinced that tide will be turned in the medium term.
		Chairman and CEO Bill Ford is known to be a hybrid advocate, and remains convinced that the cost of hybrid powertrains will drop over time.
	www.automobear.com /TheFusionAtFord.html (2605 words)

	Ford Motor Company 1929
		Ford 2000 is an initiative that became effective on January 1, 1995, and began with the consolidation of Ford's North American and European operations.
		Ford 2000 combines the power, resources, and reach of a world company with the immediacy, intimacy, agility, and spirit of a small one.
		William Clay Ford, Jr., a great-grandson of Henry Ford, was elected chairman by the board of directors, effective January 1, 1999.
	www.scripophily.net /formotcom1.html (1446 words)

	List of Ford engines
		Ford's engines are well known throughout the world, not only in Ford vehicles but in aftermarket, sports and kit applications too.
		Ford CDW27 engine - 60° aluminum 4-valve V6 used in Ford CDW27 platform
		Ford Cosworth V8 engine - DOHC 3.0 liter racing engine
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_ford_engines.html (152 words)

	Well Focused Is this Ford global platform really that versatile?
		Al Kammerer, Ford Motor Co.'s vehicle line director for the Focus platform team, is trying to explain to a room of skeptical journalists what his 600 team members learned from Ford's last global vehicle effort, the infamous $6 billion CDW27 program that gave birth to Mondeo, Contour and Mercury Mystique.
		Nasser, adding that Ford plans to spin at least two or three more products off the Focus platform, including a multi-activity vehicle that should be ready in about 18 months.
		Ford is taking advantage of global sourcing to an unprecedented degree with Focus.
	waw.wardsauto.com /ar/auto_focused_ford_global (1218 words)

	Volvo XC Forums - Awd systems.
		Ford is also gearing up to build a new crossover, a car-based sport utility, the Ford Freestyle, at its Chicago assembly plant.
		At its worst, platform sharing is nothing more than what we call andquot;badge engineering.andquot; You take one car, make a few cosmetic changes and put a new name or badge on it.
		Ford flopped with its CDW27 platform, the $6 billion car program, built in the 1990s in the U.S. and Europe (the car was called the Ford Mondeo over there, the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique here).
	www.v70xc.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-651.html (2801 words)

	Ford Mondeo - InformationBlast
		air-con and alloy wheels became optional on the UK Ghia models) may have indicated a desire by Ford to cut custs and re-coup some of the huge sums invested in the original design.
		The Mondeo will be replaced by a new model based on the C1 platform developed with Volvo in 2007.
		This platform will also form the basis of the replacement for the Galaxy MPV sold in Europe, but not the new Ford Futura in the US or the Mazda 6 in Japan.
	www.informationblast.com /Ford_Mondeo.html (1090 words)

	Ford Mondeo - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ford Mondeo LX 2.0 16V, registered in 1999 or 2000, photographed in England
		In Europe, the Mondeo is considered large, but in other markets such as the US and Australia it had not fared well, as there were larger models that had stronger brand loyalty and offered better value for money.
		In response to Ford's claim that it was a 'world car', Ford dealers retorted 'What world was it designed for?' The Contour and Mystique proved unpopular with US buyers, who preferred the larger local models, the Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable, and both the Contour and the Mystique were dropped in 2000.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Ford_Mondeo (1778 words)

	Forbes.com - Magazine Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The most famous effort of recent years, the Ford CDW27, that $6 billion baby that resulted in the Mondeo in Europe and the sisters Ford Contour/Mercury Mystique in the U.S., flopped as a global effort.
		Another test, now under way, is the Ford Focus, designed by the British and built both in Europe and the U.S. Ford says it's going well.
		Global combinations--such Daimler and Chrysler, Ford's purchase of Volvo and GM's buyout for Saab--have yet to be proved successful.
	www.forbes.com /2000/01/31/flint_0131_print.html (781 words)

	Jaguar X-Type - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Jaguar X-Type is a model of automobile that first began production in 2001 (as a model year 2002) and remains in production at Jaguar's Halewood facility near Liverpool, which produced the European version of the Ford Escort for 32 years.
		The X-Type is the smallest of the current Jaguar saloon cars, and was designed to build on the success of the S-Type, although it takes many styling cues from the XJ saloon series.
		It is built on a tweaked version of the Ford CD132 platform, evolved from the Ford CDW27 platform, that also underpins the Ford Mondeo.
	www.iridis.com /Jaguar_X-Type (220 words)

	FSB Forums - The new Mustang???
		Ford Motor will be calling 2004 “The Year of the Car.” To back up this claim, the company will bring out no less than six new models by the end of next year.
		Ford recently announced the return of a partnership with Shelby; speculators are wondering whether there may be a high-performance version of the new Mustang unveiled in Detroit this January.
		The Ford CDW27, on the other hand, was a highly sophisticated car with two all-new, state-of-the-art, high-output engines, the 2.0 liter four cylinder and the 2.5 liter six, a new electronically controlled transmission; new electronic traction control; air bags; anti-lock brakes and other technological refinements desired by customers.
	www.fullsizebronco.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-10936.html (1301 words)

	Volvo's Slippery Slope - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people) is also going overboard on platform sharing.
		At its worst, platform sharing is nothing more than what we call "badge engineering." You take one car, make a few cosmetic changes and put a new name or badge on it.
		Their great struggle isn't against competitors; it is against Ford, and the eternal battle between making great cars and making "the numbers." I doubt that Volvo executives will win many disagreements over component costs once Volvos are built in a Ford plant.
	www.forbes.com /business/2004/06/01/cz_jf_0601flint.html (1051 words)

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		Mazda is the sole foreign based producer in the state, building vehicles through a venture with Ford at a facility in Flat Rock, Michigan.
		The alliance of Ford and Mazda is an interesting one because the lines between the two companies have started to fade.
		Cur-rently, the Mazda B-Series pickup is the only vehicle based on a Ford platform, but forward product plans indicate that future versions of the Protege will be based on Ford platforms, with more to follow in the future.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~gc394397/project/industry1.htm (1075 words)

	No breather on news front in 1994; auto industry moves from ICU into recovery room
		JANUARY: Edsel Ford II is elevated to a vice presidency at the company founded by his great-grandfather, while remaining president of Ford Motor Credit Co. His cousin, William Clay Ford Jr., doesn't make vp.
		Both of the young Fords seemingly are charted for higher spots at this point, but Billy jolts the troops by resigning as a company officer in September to become finance-committee chairman, succeeding his father, on Jan. 1 this year.
		NOVEMBER: Ford and Volkswagen AG call it splitsville in Brazil, moving to dismantle their vintage-'87 Autolatina joint venture.
	waw.wardsauto.com /ar/auto_no_breather_news (1308 words)

	Automotive Industries: X Marks the Spot - Product Announcement
		What's not sald quite so loudly is that the car is based on the front-wheel-drive (FWD) CD 132 platform of the new Ford Mondeo, itself an evolution of the CDW27 platform that formed the basis for Europe's original Mondeo and the U.S. market Mystique/Contour twins.
		And with Jaguar yet to make any real money for Ford, despite a decade of massive investment in new product and facilities, a bespoke platform for X-Type was simply out of the question.
		The actual figure probably depends on the precise definition of "component" and "sharing." As late as October 1998, planning proposals called for 45 percent of X-Type parts or systems to be carryover or modified CD132.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3012/is_4_181/ai_73284548 (1477 words)

	Forums @ FCO > New Contour and Mystique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From what my friend told me at the local Ford dealer, is the Fusion is the result (or the same car) as Europe's Mondeo (newer version)...............which is there Contour/Mystique, they just didn't keep the same names........but who knows.........I think with a 6 speed,'18 in.
		In a move of unbelieveable wisdom, Ford US had the foresight to bring one [or more] of the original developmental engineers from UK to Detroit to work on the US version and US introduction.
		For all that WE love them, these cars were not really respected by the general public or dealerships, and not many would be excited by their return.
	www.fordcontour.org /lofiversion/index.php/t5323.html (730 words)

	Automotive Forums .com Car Chat - All X-TYPE owners please read (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although Ford only admits to sharing 20% of the X-Type with the Ford Contour, what they mean is that they had higher quality parts made from the exact spec for the X-Type.
		All of us CDW27 cars share the duratec and its ups and downs.(Except for the Zetec owners).
		This might be a very fortunate thing for you, since we have members that have torn down the engine many of times and know it inside and out.
	www.automotiveforums.com /vbulletin/t94446.html (384 words)

	Ford Mondeo - sell less to make more : Automotive Feature
		This was the message from Ford of Europe Chairman Nick Scheele at the Paris launch of the new Ford Mondeo.
		Ford hopes to avoid discounting the Mondeo's yet unannounced prices in order to keep margins up.
		Outsourcing is currently perceived as key to automotive suppliers' survival, and is being driven by consumers in the price-pressurised global market.
	www.just-auto.com /features_detail.asp?art=305&lk=nd02 (429 words)

	Platform Codes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		AES does not guaranty the accuracy of all vehicle platform names.
		Vehicle Platform Codes - are internal codes given to vehicles in-house by the vehicle maker, which identifies internally what family the vehicle belongs to.
		Example: the DaimlerChrysler Concorde, 300M, LHS and Intrepid are all built on the LHS platform.
	www.automotive-esources.com /platforms_codes.htm (94 words)

	Ford CDW27 platform
		The CDW27 Platform was Ford's midsize car automobile platform from the late 1990s.
		The successors to many of these cars use the new Ford CD3 platform.
		That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/ford_cdw27_platform.html (111 words)

	FSB Forums - What vehicles do you think shouldnt have been made?
		In 1987 Ford was going to change the layout of the Mustang to a front wheel drive platform.
		The body consisted of a platform soil and a carrying body, which no longer was modern, than also in Germany the pontoon building method interspersed itself.
		With wishbones, coil springs in front and pendulum swinging axle, semi-trailing arms and coil springs in the back also the chassis was modern, other and larger had still often enough leaf springs.
	www.fullsizebronco.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-8566.html (3709 words)

	DomesticTunerz.com > Check this out, Zetec owners! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nov 8 2001, 10:46 AM i'm not real familiar with the differences berween the focus and the escort, would that work on a escort, if it did then that'd be one fast escort, other wise dropping a zx3 engine with that set up would also be awsome.
		Therefore know one will know you have a super unless you pop the hood or you smoke them like last nights beef jerky.
		Terry Haines was an engineer for the CDW27 platform (Contour, Mystique, Mondeo), has worked for many car manufacturers, is a consultant for the big three, builds one-off cars, etc. The list goes on and on.
	www.domestictunerz.com /lofiversion/index.php?t696.html (939 words)

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