Ford Trasnsit Connect

[Tommychu]

Throw a 6 spd standard in there and a huge turbo for extra powah. Get teh quarter mile times in the 12s.

Fixed your post.
You know someone's gonna do it.

[michael11]

I saw the test drive on TV last night. After searching everywhere, the tester had to look in the user manual to figure out how to open the hood. The front Ford logo swivelled up and a key lock was exposed. Cool.

http://www.fordvehicles.com/transitconnect/

The older Euro Ford Focus also had the swivel embleméhood lock..

[Gforcefd]

Tommy, that would be nice too, but I was thinking more about a fuel efficient daily driver with cargo room, then a tire shredding drag racer with cargo room

[deathegg]

Believe it or not, the biggest complaint I ever got about them, as well as my opinion, too, is the "new car" scent in them is the funkiest one ever. We attribute this smell to the fact they were assembled in Turkey. LOL

It can't be much worse than Hyundai's from a few years back. Don't know what they assembled the interior with, but sheeesh, those older Accents were smelly little cars!

[Tommychu]

Tommy, that would be nice too, but I was thinking more about a fuel efficient daily driver with cargo room, then a tire shredding drag racer with cargo room

Yeah, I know. I just have a bit of a one-track mind is all.
Upon a quick wiki-ing, I found out it's on the old Focus platform. Wouldn't take much to make one of these into a rocket. Or make it handle well.

And as for the new car smell, Mercedes M-class (and a few other models) still has the strangest. Especially the late '90s ones.

[Gforcefd]

Yeah I could see picking one of these up in a couple years for my cross country adventures, more power, tuning, and maybe a transmission swap would be in the works though.

Logan

[neanderpaul]

I'd rather have a sprinter any day. What's the mpg difference 2-4 mpg? And the sprinter is HUGE compared.

[neanderpaul]

This guy claims a best of 32.1!!!!!

http://www.gassavers.org/showthread.php?t=6438

[Grey Vw]

What surprises me about the Transit is that it is in old educational french videos that I have to watch at school.

And also I guess it would be called a crossover because the word wagon isn't COOL anymore. Dodge PowerWagon lol