# Ford DEW platform

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{{short description|Automotive platform}}
{{infobox automobile platform
| name           = Ford DEW platform
| image          = File:2005_Ford_Thunderbird_Hardtop_front_4.28.18.jpg
| caption        = 2005 Ford Thunderbird one of the vehicles based on the DW platform
| manufacturer   = [Ford](/source/Ford_Motor_Company) <br/> [Tata Motors](/source/Tata_Motors)
| parent_company = 
| aka            = DEW98
| production     = 1999–2015
| assembly       = United States: [Wixom, Michigan](/source/Wixom%2C_Michigan) ([Wixom Assembly](/source/Wixom_Assembly_Plant)) <br/> United Kingdom: [Birmingham](/source/Birmingham) ([Castle Bromwich Assembly](/source/Castle_Bromwich_Assembly))
| class          = 
| layout         = [FR layout](/source/FR_layout)
| body_style     = 4-door [sedan](/source/sedan)<br />2-door [convertible](/source/convertible) <br /> 5-door [Wagon](/source/Wagon)
| vehicles       = 1999&ndash;2008 [Jaguar S-Type](/source/Jaguar_S-Type_(1999))<ref name="Jewel" /><br /> 2000&ndash;2006 [Lincoln LS](/source/Lincoln_LS)<ref name="Boca Raton 1" /><br /> 2002&ndash;2005 [Ford Thunderbird](/source/Ford_Thunderbird_(eleventh_generation))<ref name="Boca Raton 1" /><br /> 2008&ndash;2015 [Jaguar XF](/source/Jaguar_XF_(X250))<ref name="Jewel" />
| related        = [Ford D2C platform](/source/Ford_D2C_platform)
| engine         = {{convert|NNNN|cuin|L|0|abbr=on|order=flip}}
| transmission   = 
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| predecessor    = [Ford DE-1 platform](/source/Ford_DE-1_platform)
| successor      = 
}}
The '''Ford DEW platform''' (or '''DEW98''') is [Ford Motor Company](/source/Ford_Motor_Company)'s [midsized](/source/mid-size_car) [rear-wheel drive](/source/rear-wheel_drive) [automobile platform](/source/automobile_platform).  The D/E nomenclature was meant to express an intermediate size between D- and E-class vehicles, while the W denoted a worldwide platform. The platform was developed by both Ford and [Jaguar](/source/Jaguar_(automobile)) engineers, and debuted in the [Lincoln LS](/source/Lincoln_LS) sedan.<ref name="Jewel">{{cite book |last1=Hutton |first1=Ray |title=Jewels in the Crown: How Tata of India transformed Britain's Jaguar and Land Rover |chapter=Jaguar's faded glory |publisher=Elliott & Thompson |date=2013 |isbn=978-1908739834 }}<!--|accessdate=26 March 2015 --></ref><ref name="Boca Raton 1">{{cite news |last=Connelly |first=Mary |title=New Blood Brings Pulse Of Change |work=Boca Raton News |date=7 August 1999 |page=RR11 }}</ref>  Its de facto predecessor in Europe was the DE-1 platform which underpinned the 1985 [Ford Scorpio](/source/Ford_Scorpio), however this vehicle was cancelled in 1998 without a direct replacement as in the European market, buyers were increasingly turning away from executive class cars manufactured by mainstream manufacturers.

Ford's use of the platform ended in 2006, but Jaguar continued to use DEW98 after Jaguar was sold to [Tata Motors](/source/Tata_Motors) in 2008, building the [XF](/source/Jaguar_XF_(X250)) on it. Jaguar's use of the platform ended in 2015 with the introduction of the [second-generation XF](/source/Jaguar_XF_(X260)) using the [[Jaguar Land Rover car platforms#D7a|Jaguar Land Rover iQ[Al] (D7a)]] modular platform.<ref name="Car Advice">{{cite news |last=Fung |first=Derek |url=http://www.caradvice.com.au/344337/2016-jaguar-xf-revealed/ |title=2016 Jaguar XF revealed |work=caradvice |date=26 March 2015 |accessdate=26 March 2015 }}</ref>

==Vehicles==
This platform was used in these vehicles:
* 1999&ndash;2008 [Jaguar S-Type](/source/Jaguar_S-Type_(1999))<ref name="Jewel" />
* 2000&ndash;2006 [Lincoln LS](/source/Lincoln_LS)<ref name="Boca Raton 1" />
* 2002&ndash;2005 [Ford Thunderbird](/source/Ford_Thunderbird_(eleventh_generation))<ref name="Boca Raton 1" />
* 2008&ndash;2015 [Jaguar XF](/source/Jaguar_XF_(X250))<ref name="Jewel" />

Cancelled vehicles that were to use this platform:
* 2004 Ford Fairlane {{Citation needed|date=June 2018}}
* 2004 Lincoln D310 - became the [CD3](/source/Ford_CD3_platform)-based [Lincoln Zephyr](/source/Lincoln_Zephyr%2FMKZ)<ref name="MIM 1996">{{cite journal |title=The Yanks are Coming |journal=Motor Industry Management: Journal of the Institute of the Motor Industry |year=1996 |last=Institute of the Motor Industry }}</ref>
* 2005 [Ford Mustang](/source/Ford_Mustang)<ref name="Mustang">{{cite book |last1=DeLorenzo |first1=Matt |title=Mustang 2005: A New Breed of Pony Car |publisher=Motorbooks International |year=2004 |page=22 |isbn=978-0760320396 }}<!--|accessdate=26 March 2015 --></ref> - used the [D2C platform](/source/Ford_D2C_platform) instead

<gallery>
File:2001 Jaguar S-Type.JPG|Jaguar S-Type
File:00-02 Lincoln LS.jpg|Lincoln LS
File:2002-2005 Ford Thunderbird.jpg|Ford Thunderbird
File:2009-2010 Jaguar XF (X250 MY10) Luxury sedan (2011-01-13).jpg|Jaguar XF
</gallery>

==References==

{{reflist|30em}}

{{Ford platforms}}

DEW

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