It is the platform designation, kinda like the MN12 was the Thunderbird/Cougar platform. If Mercury were to bring back the Cougar, like the rumors were a few years ago, on a Mustang platform, it too would be considered an S197
My bro is an engineer for one of their subsidiaries..and he said that he's not sure where the letters come from, but the numbers come from whichever design version they decide will be the final that goes into production
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My bro is an engineer for one of their subsidiaries..and he said that he's not sure where the letters come from, but the numbers come from whichever design version they decide will be the final that goes into production
As an engineer myself, that'd be my guess too. Normally every idea gets assigned a number and every revision gets another number. Where these numbers come from, probably the only one who could tell you for sure is the engineer who originally started the number system for Ford, everyone else was just following suit. I'm not sure on the frame between fox and SN95, but a platform is basically the frame, powertrain mounts, basic suspension, etc
SN95 - aka "Fox 4" (4 = 1994) S197 - aka "DEW Lite" ("DEW98" is the code name for the Lincoln LS/Thunderbird chassis, of which the '05+ Mustang was originally supposed to built upon (in unmodified form, but it is now a modified DEW98 chassis and as such got a new code name)
Well put Redfire... I was too lazy to ask my bro, not that he would give me an accurate answer anyways... i remember he was working on DN101, which i think was a taurus... what's the D stand for?
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S197 is a "codename" given by FORD. the chassis is actually a D2C.... "D" class 2 door coupe. The exterior was done by Sid Ramnarace, who had a background in designing kitchen utensils and plates.
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^ Right, the same frame etc... and I thought that before the 2005s came out, the frame hadnt been changed in like.. 20 something years right?
Well technically, modern uni-body cars don't have frames. What they do have are common attach points, so if the attach points for various components like engines, axles and suspensions are all geometrically identical, no matter what the body or "frame" looks like, its the same S197 platform.
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