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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Oh I'm sure 4-5 years from now they'll make a hundred of them EV for some show pony status somewhere. The 100,000+ will be standard 3.7 duratec Ford V6. The Oshkosh was the only pure gasoline prototype to make the final. The 2nd was pure EV and the 3rd a hybrid.
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I'm curious what engine Ford decided to use. The US spec Transit starts with the 3.7L but they also have 4 cylinder version in other countries.
Picking Oshkosh / Ford wasn't a surprise to me once AM General dropped out. Workhorse was never going to get it. They are a company with 100 employees, perpetually on the verge of bankruptcy, that knows nothing about mass production. Likewise I couldn't see the foreign bidders getting it (Mahindra or Karsan). That just left Oshkosh / Ford.
BTW, the Transit based van you pictured was rejected. The winning bidder looks like:
