The Ford B platform is an
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 prac ...
used for
Ford subcompact car
Subcompact car is a North American Car classification, classification for cars smaller than a compact car. It is broadly equivalent to the B-segment (Europe), supermini (Great Britain) or A0-class (China) classifications.
According to the Unite ...
s from the late 1970s through the early 2000s. It was used in the
Ford Fiesta
The Ford Fiesta is a supermini car that was marketed by Ford from 1976 to 2023 over seven generations. Over the years, the Fiesta has mainly been developed and manufactured by Ford's European operations, and had been positioned below the ...
,
Ford Ka
The Ford Ka is a small car manufactured by Ford Motor Company from 1996 to 2016 as a city car and from 2014 to 2021 as a subcompact car. It entered its second generation in 2008, produced by Fiat in Tychy, Poland. A third generation was introduced ...
,
Ford Puma, and
Ford Courier
Ford Courier is a model nameplate used by Ford Motor Company, Ford since the early 1950s. The Courier moniker has been used on a variety of vehicles all around the world since it was first used in North America for a Panel van#North America, se ...
. It was superseded by the
Ford B3 platform
The Ford global B-car platform (for "Vehicle size class, B-class") is a subcompact car, subcompact automobile platform that is jointly developed by Ford Motor Company and Mazda, Mazda Motor Corporation at centers in Europe as well as North America ...
in 2004.
References
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