Kit Car Magazine

Ford Transit is a large series of cars in Europe, in addition to familiar van, there are many derived models. The Ford Transit Courier, a small van for European market, was recently photographed with spy photos of its test vehicle, and production body of Ford Transit Courier was shown for first time.

You can see that design of new car has changed a lot compared to current model. The front fascia uses a split headlight design and styling is much tougher. Compared to current Focus front panel, it has a more businesslike feel. As a commercial vehicle, use of lamps is relatively simple, you will not see exaggerated LED light bars, and even daytime running lights are halogen light sources, but this is reasonable for positioning this vehicle.

There is nothing to say about sides. The design of a closed rear window and a side sliding door is standard on van. The area of ​​​​the windshield is quite large, slope is also considerable. This will be clearly visible upon visual inspection.

There are no obvious changes to design of tail section, split tailgate is retained, and in taillights there are only some changes to canopy body, which also looks relatively simple.

In terms of power, new Ford Transit Courier has two power sources: liquid fuel and clean electric power. The fuel-powered version is equipped with a 1.0t engine. The usual engine power level is 1.6L, with lower emissions. For a purely electric version, range deserves more attention than power: according to current information, it will be equipped with a 74 kWh battery pack and is expected to provide a range of 370 km.

Overview

Models such as Ford Transit Courier are popular in European market. On one hand, body size is small, which is more suitable for traveling through narrow cities. be competent based on an automotive platform that can provide driving comfort while effectively controlling costs. However, such models are not very popular in Chinese market, on one hand, as a cost recovery tool, prices of these models should not be too high, which is completely different from concept of consumption in European market.