I was lamenting at work with a couple of the guys in the office that I no longer see Ford Focus based vans on the road, and asked what happened to them.
Neither one seemed to know what I was talking about until I printed out an image of one - then the lights went on and they both claimed to seem them all the time (
quite the 180 degree turn around).
Not only don't I see a lot of the smaller Ford vans, many of the others have vanished from the streets, perhaps more of a change in my driving route over the past two years?
Then I found the below today, sure enough sales have dwindled, and production has ceased. If I tell the guys at work this it will be yea, we know all about it where have you been -
not kidding a real pair of idiots.
09/09/2022
The Compact Van Is Dead in America
https://www.kbb.com/car-news/the-com...ad-in-america/
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.......the decisions mean the quiet death of an entire segment of vehicles.
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No more smaller - just big enough for the job fuel efficient compact cargo vans.
Now if you live in Europe, and if there wasn't that big earthquake in Turkey, you might be getting something interesting to drive.
May 09, 2022
2023 Ford E-Transit Custom Revealed With Up To 236 Miles Of Range
https://www.motor1.com/news/584597/2...custom-reveal/
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Although it's being revealed today, production of the E-Transit Custom won't commence until 2023. Assembly will take place at the Ford Otosan facility in Kocaeli, Turkey where an all-electric next-gen Volkswagen Transporter will also be built. This is the second out of a total of five EVs from Ford Pro to go on sale in Europe by 2024.
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If anyone has more current information on this segment of the market please post it.
I got into this topic initially because the pickup trucks are so huge, and the 5 to 6-foot beds are beyond useless, heck my old S10 has a 7-foot bed, maybe I should just fix the transmission.
I figure with the passenger seat out I can get much more utility out of a compact van than a compact pickup, and full weather protection too.