Ford Transit Connect

kind of van have you got and what's it look like inside?

I've got a lovely red Transit Connect.

It's the closest I'll ever get to a Ferrari.

Mate, stick a Ferrari badge on it, you know.

not simply taking a holiday but travelling for an extended period of time.

They had a white 2012 Ford Transit Connect van.

You can tell I'm really into cars and vans because the way I said that just rolled off the tongue.

The van would become one of the most recognisable objects in the entire case.

Ford actually did a version of this same trick decades later.

They built the Transit Connect in Turkey, and they shipped it in America with passenger seats installed, cleared customs as a passenger vehicle, and then pulled the seats out and destroyed them so that it could be sold as a cargo van.

Yeah, they were two different companies, 30 years apart, but both discovered that the cheapest way to beat a tariff is to just bolt chairs onto it.

So now the harder question.

He's going to want to see, you know, 12 to 15 of those players rocking up to training in their old fellas' Massey Ferguson tractor.

Guys showing up after a long day working inside in Chadwick's, showing up to training in a kind of a tipper truck or a small kind of a Transit Connect van.

That was kind of the meeting tube edge of Park down through the years back when they were in the Junior Championship.

This sort of, you know, sort of... urban sprawl that's kind of come out there to park.

Nobody wants them, so we're going to get rid of them.

And then within a year, they came out with the Transit Connect, the biggest folly, in my opinion, since the Edsel.

And if you don't believe me, try putting brakes on one of them.

Try working on the engine on one of them.

Okay, I'm gonna have to tell you 'cause you're not, you're not gonna get it.

It's a Ford Transit Connect X Press.

Ah, yes.

Yes, I do remember that now.

But anyway, first-person female it was, and, uh, it seemed to go down quite well with the readers.

So, yeah.

Um, it, it was a Transit Connect, which the engineers at Ford had fitted Focus RS running gear to.

Ah, okay.

No, no, no.

Transit Connect?

Transit Connect.

Charles Transit.

And so they, they were supposed to have the roof installed one specific way, and they were not installing the roof that it, the way it was supposed to be.

And is it that three-year opportunity that all the legacy manufacturers have to strike back again? But then, you know, if you're going to send a Ford, well, they've got to send the Puma rallying because it can't send anything else.

It can't send a Transit Connect rallying.

It would be entertaining.

It's a super van Connect coming.

Yeah, the, um...

What, yeah, what is the small, the Transit Connect? Do they still make the Transit Connect?

Yeah.

Yeah.