{"id":5137,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:30:09","slug":"ford-developing-new-rear-drive-platform-in-dearborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5137","title":{"rendered":"Ford developing new rear-drive platform in Dearborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/ford\/\">Ford<\/a> has apparently finally heard the call and green-lighted development of a new global rear wheel drive platform and a family of vehicles to be built on it. However, unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">General Motors<\/a>, Ford will not rely on its Australian division to do the heavy lifting. Since the collapse of the U.S. dollar has made the United States a low cost country, the development of the new platform has been moved back to Dearborn. The most recent attempt at a rear-drive architecture that debuted on the latest Australian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/02\/17\/melbourne-08-preview-2008-ford-fg-falcon-swoops-in\/\">Ford Falcon<\/a> was something of a debacle for the company. Unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/holden\/\">Holden<\/a>, which designed its RWD Zeta platform to be built in right- and left-hand-drive versions, the new Falcon platform is right-hand drive only. This new Ford architecture to be developed near Detroit, however, will spawn models for both the Ford and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/lincoln\/\">Lincoln<\/a> brands, including an all-new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/ford\/mustang\/\">Mustang<\/a>. With Ford making a major push to reduce weight in future models, hopefully these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/research\/\">new cars<\/a> will come in a lot lighter than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">GM<\/a> equivalents, as well.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080324\/AUTO01\/803240338\/1148\/&#038;source=nletter-business\">Detroit News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/03\/24\/ford-developing-new-rear-drive-platform-in-dearborn\/<\/p>\n<p>2008-03-24T10:29:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford has apparently finally heard the call and green-lighted development of a new global rear wheel drive platform and a family of vehicles to be built on it. However, unlike General Motors, Ford will not rely on its Australian division to do the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10264,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/10264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}