In 2020, Ford and Volkswagen announced the birth of a light commercial vehicle partnership. This provides synergies for the development and marketing of multiple models by 2025. Thus, from 2021 the new Tourneo Connect/Caddy duo came out of the ground and laid the first stone of this cooperation. In 2022 it is pickup Volkswagen Amarok which was introduced a few months after the new generation Ford Ranger. But alsoThe e-Tourneo Custom, based on the same platform as the upcoming electric Transporter, represents… Two more new electric models, based on the Volkswagen MEB platform, will arrive in the coming months. Until then, let’s take a closer look at this new electric, connected and pretty cool van…

Several names of Ford utilities

We remind you that this can be a mess, This is how Ford’s range of commercial vehicles is organized. Name Transit means versions dedicated to cargo transportationwhile Tourneo stands for those designed to transport people. For this, four suffixes indicate the corresponding model. From the smallest to the largest, thus there are CourierTHE connectTHE Custom and at last 2T (Transit transport only, called Minicar in VP). Today is a transit courier which turned out to mean the new smallest utilities at Ford.

This newbie has compact dimensions, with a length of only 4.16 meters and a limited width of 1.76 meters. This place in competition with Fiat Fiorino and Renault Express. An endangered category, the Peugeot Bipper and Citroën Nemo, for example, are long gone. Its design is very geometric : impressive front grille, triangular headlights, vertical taillights. The same observation on board, with a smooth instrument panel that can accommodate two screens of 12 inches each. The transition to the high market is there, and it is successful.

Made for professionals

Its increased dimensions were made possible by the cargo space in the rear. Now he can holds two euro pallets, against two in the current generation, for a cargo volume of 2.9 m3. He offers a payload of 700 kilograms and a maximum towing weight of 750 kilograms. The ingenious partition behind the seat can be opened to accommodate items up to 2.5 meters long. under the hood it maintains its petrol and diesel engines. The 1.0 Ecoboost develops a choice of 100 or 125 horsepower, and the 1.5 Ecoblue diesel 100 horsepower. There electric versionnamed e-Transit Courier is developing 136 horsepower. We don’t know about its autonomy yet, but Ford is already warning about it charging time from 10 to 80% in less than 35 minutes. With a charging capacity of up to 100 kW on direct current, it should cover 87 kilometers in ten minutes. Thermal versions can be ordered from this summer due at the end of the yearwhile an electric version will arrive in 2024.