Ford Scales Back Its Partnership With PSA Peugeot-Citroen
General Motors may be busy forging an alliance with PSA-Peugeot Citroen, but its cross-town rival – the Ford Motor Company – is actively in the process of exiting a similar joint venture.
While the GM-PSA deal is a wide-sweeping deal that potentially calls for the sharing of components, powertrains, platforms, and production venues, the Ford-PSA joint venture – which stems back to 1998 – involves only diesel engine development.
Presently, the two firms share two engine ranges with one another. The DLD family consists of a number of diesel four-cylinder engines ranging between 1.4- and 1.6-liters in displacement. The small 1.4-liter variant is used in the likes of the Citroen C1 and Peugeot 107, while the 1.6-liter engine can be found in a number of different vehicles, incuding the Citroen DS3, Peugeot 308, Ford Fiesta, and Ford Focus.


Running on the C5 platform, the DS5 will act as a direct replacement for the C6 and pave the way for the flagship DS9. With