The Ford D186 platform is a mid-size car

Mid-size car

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 platform, and was used for three car

Čar

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s and a minivan

Minivan

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. The D186 was first used with the 1986 introduction of the Ford Taurus

First-generation Ford Taurus

The first-generation Ford Taurus is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company as the first of six generations of the Ford Taurus...

 and Mercury Sable

Mercury Sable

The Sable was a very important sedan for both Mercury and the American auto industry.Ford had lagged in introducing mid-size front wheel drive cars to compete against General Motors' Chevrolet Citation and its best-selling Chevrolet Celebrity/Pontiac 6000/Oldsmobile Cutlass/Buick Century quartet as...

. D186 was also significant because it introduced front-wheel drive to Lincoln as well to Ford minivans. The platform was phased out in the early 2000s when the Taurus and Sable were (for the time being) replaced by both smaller (Fusion/Milan) and larger (Five Hundred/Montego) product lines.

Models

• 1986–2007 Ford Taurus
  Ford Taurus
  The Ford Taurus is an automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in the United States. Originally introduced in the 1986 model year, it has remained in near-continuous production for more than two decades, making it the fourth oldest nameplate that is currently sold in the North American...
  
  
• 1986–2005 Mercury Sable
  Mercury Sable
  The Sable was a very important sedan for both Mercury and the American auto industry.Ford had lagged in introducing mid-size front wheel drive cars to compete against General Motors' Chevrolet Citation and its best-selling Chevrolet Celebrity/Pontiac 6000/Oldsmobile Cutlass/Buick Century quartet as...
  
  
• 1988–2002 Lincoln Continental
  Lincoln Continental
  The Lincoln Continental is an automobile which was produced by the Lincoln division of Ford Motor Company from 1939 to 1948 and again from 1956 to 2002...
  
  
• 1995–1998 Ford Windstar
  Ford Windstar
  The Ford Windstar is a minivan that was produced and sold by the Ford Motor Company from the 1995 to 2003 model years. This front-wheel drive minivan was the second minivan designed by the company, serving as a replacement for the rear-wheel drive Aerostar minivan. The two were sold concurrently...