Ford Global C-car Platform

The Volvo P1/Mazda BK/Ford Global C-car Platform is Ford's global compact car automobile platform. It replaces the Ford C170 platform and Mazda B platform (BJ). The C1 platform debuted with the European Ford Focus C-Max compact MPV in early 2004. The platform is designed for either front- or all-wheel drive.

First called the C1 platform, it was designed in Ford's European development center in Cologne, Germany, as the "C Technologies Program". It was said to be one of the largest platform programs in history at that time. The Ford Focus, Volvo S40 and V50, and Mazda3 (BK and BL) share about 60% of their parts and components. Thirty engineers each from Ford, Mazda, and Volvo worked in Cologne for two years to combine the compact-car engineering for all three automakers under the direction of Ford Director of C Technologies Derrick Kuzak, Ford of Europe vice president of product development.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Vehicles using this first iteration of the platform include:

• 2003–2008 Mazda3/Axela (BK) (Note: production continued in China through 2013)
• 2003–2010 Ford Focus C-Max (first generation) (C214), first European vehicle on this platform
• 2004–2010 Ford Focus (second generation, Europe) (C307), (Note: the Ford Focus (North America) continued on the C170 platform through 2011)
• 2004–2012 Volvo S40 II (P11)
• 2004–2012 Volvo V50 (P12)
• 2005–2010 Mazda Premacy/Mazda 5 (CR) (and related Ford i-Max)
• 2006–2013 Volvo C70 II (P15)
• 2007–2013 Volvo C30 (P14)
• 2008–2012 Ford Kuga (C394)
• 2008–2013 Mazda Biante
• 2006-2012 Mazda CX-7

• 2010 Ford C-Max Zetec TD 115 1.8 Front.jpg

  Ford C-Max

• 2009 Ford Focus (LV) TDCi 5-door hatchback (2015-07-10) 01.jpg

  Ford Focus

• 2012 Ford Kuga (TE) Trend AWD wagon (2018-08-31) 01.jpg

  Ford Kuga

• 2007 Ford i-Max (front).jpg

  Ford i-Max

• Mazda 3 Facelift front.JPG

  Mazda3/Axela

• Mazda5 -- 03-21-2012.JPG

  Mazda Premacy/Mazda 5

• 2011 Mazda CX-7 Sport Tech Diesel 2.2 Front.jpg

  Mazda CX-7

• Mazda Biante 01.JPG

  Mazda Biante

• 2011 Volvo S40 T5 sedan (2018-10-01) 01.jpg

  Volvo S40

• 2008 Volvo V50 (MY09) LE station wagon (2015-07-15) 01.jpg

  Volvo V50

• 2011 Volvo C70 -- 11-13-2011.jpg

  Volvo C70

• 2011-2012 Volvo C30 -- 01-07-2012.jpg

  Volvo C30

Second generation

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Ford global C platform vehicles:

• 2011–2019 Ford C-Max (second generation) (C344) and Grand C-Max<ref name = WSJ1112/>
• 2012–2018 Ford Focus<ref name = evo0413/> (C346)
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• 2015–2019 Lincoln MKC
• 2013–2023 Ford Transit Connect<ref name = CarDriver0912>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 2015–2023 Ford Escort (China)

Vehicles partially based on global C platform:

• 2009–2013 Mazda Axela/Mazda3 (J68/BL)
• 2010–2018 Mazda Premacy/Mazda5 (CW)
• 2013–2019 Volvo V40 II<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 2018 Ford C-Max facelift Front.jpg

  Ford C-Max

• 2015 Ford Grand C-Max Titanium X TDCi - 1997cc 2.0 (150PS) Diesel - Red Rush Metallic - 08-2024, Front.jpg

  Ford Grand C-Max

• 2017 Ford Focus Zetec Edition 1.0 Front.jpg

  Ford Focus

• 2017 Ford Kuga Titanium 1.5 Front.jpg

  Ford Kuga

• 2018 Ford Escape Titanium 2.0L front 5.19.19.jpg

  Ford Escape

• 2021 Ford Transit Connect XLT, Front Right, 10-10-2021.jpg

  Ford Transit Connect

• Ford Escort 2021MY facelift IMG001.jpg

  Ford Escort

• 2019 Lincoln MKC 'Select' 2.0L front 6.9.19.jpg

  Lincoln MKC

• 2013 Mazda3 Tamura 1.6.jpg

  Mazda3/Axela

• 2012 Mazda5 Sport in Liquid Silver, front left.jpg

  Mazda Premacy/Mazda 5

• 2016 Volvo V40 (MY17) T3 Momentum hatchback (2018-10-12) 01.jpg

  Volvo V40

• 2017 Volvo V40 Cross Country 2.0 Front.jpg

  Volvo V40 Cross Country

References

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