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Originally Posted by JSH
The Promaster is the only full-size FWD sold in the USA. It was introduced to the USA in 2013 and has run a distant 4th behind the offerings from Ford and GM despite selling for thousands of dollars less. The Ford E-Series is 28 years old and being retired this year but still manages to outsell]
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Very little of what you say has anything to do with poor sales.
The actual operators who would buy a FWD contractor van have been bit by reliability problems and gone back to traditional vans.
First with the discovery that a Mercedes sprinter motor fails miserably if driven in Winter conditions
Then bleh promaster is just as bad. Not to mention the insta-rust problems some years possess
No Van is particularly reliable but the FWD units have particularly expensive failures and early on, downtime is expensive even if the repairs are under warranty.
If a VALID FWD offering were to consistently be reliable with low cost repairs proven Over many years you would see commercial operators buy them as the FWD layout is otherwise superior in every way a contractor cares about, space, ergonomics, ease of use, fuel economy
I myself would have bought the original Ford transit if Ford would have imported the 5mt Diesel and interior.
Ah well the joys of a chicken tax protected isolated market