Talk:Ford Fox platform

Does anyone know where the name (Fox) was derived from?

Pretty simple, the body style changes are designated by the following

1965-1966 A or ALPHA body

1967-1968 B or BRAVO body

1969-1970 C or CHARLIE body

1971-1973 D or DELTA body

1974-1978 E or ECHO body

1979-1992 F or FOX body

This Fox platform article is someone's a dreamed up crap.. do a little research on Ford and Mustangs before posting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.252.241.34 (talk) 01:30, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

The name "fox" was a code name ford came up with in the early 70's. It included other cars as well, pinto and taurus and a few others. Towards the end of the fox body era, mustang and fairmont were the only two left. Hope that helps. For more information on mustangs and foxbodies, visit foxbodychallenge.com!

-mike —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mike3488 (talk • contribs) 20:00, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Asserted popularity
"The Fox Mustang is one of the most popular Ford platform vehicle still on the road today."

I don't think this is true anymore, I very rarely see a fox on the road that isn't mine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dragon574444 (talk • contribs) 04:09, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

The name "FOX" was for the Fox sheetmetal co. that provided the metal for the fox mustang panels i dont know how to edit the wiki article but the last SN-95 was 98 after that they were coded "NEW EDGE" or SN-97 in 05 they went to the code S-197 and the wheel width on the sN -95 is the same as a fox the body is narrower so it seems less wide but it isnt and the reason for the re-design in 95 was due to fox sheet metal going out of business Dragon trust me there are plenty of foxes out there they are in antique class now so they are being hoarded by ford fans like myself i have 35 some close to original some bone crushing some parts cars and a pro-street trust me the fox isnt going anywhere —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.166.48.28 (talk) 03:41, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Timelines
Glad someone corrected the page to list model years instead of "production" and also labeled the heading correctly. Readers should not be guessing why a timeline is one year short of when actually introduced. Some editors are lost on the differences between a production run (1978-2004) and that of model year timeline (1979-2004). If I could buy a Fox Mustang for Christmas in 1978 and drive it home before New Year's 1979, that car definitely didn't come out in 1979 nor did Ford start building, marketing, and selling them in 1979. It's simply just the model year designation, because the official 1979 model year ran from October 1978 to September 1979. MYs are essentially a selling season. Pretending otherwise is obtuse. Therefore, I suggest ALL automotive articles make this distinction or anything listed "production...", will be correctly reflected as the actual production period. I couldn't care less about how someone "feels" about that, unless they correctly list such info under MY, model year(s) like recently done on the main page. Americans are not the only readers of Wikipedia, so everything must be harmonized, so that European, African, or Asian readers, will know correctly that Mercedes-Benz introduced the 300E in 1985 to US (same year as Europe) in spite of its 1986 model year designation. Or that the S550 Mustang was already available from August 2014 to USA, unlike 2015 in export markets, 2016 in some. I've made my point, as I support the recent changes to the main page.--Carmaker1 (talk) 22:59, 3 February 2019 (UTC)