{"id":1829,"date":"2011-04-19T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T15:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2011-04-19T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T15:15:46","slug":"ford-launches-transit-supersportvan-at-nec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/1829","title":{"rendered":"Ford Launches Transit SuperSportVan At NEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford has a proud tradition of producing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/296\" target=\"_self\">one-off high performance versions of the Transit<\/a> &#8211; now it has done it again with the Transit SuperSportVan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1832\" title=\"ford-super-sport-van-sm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ford-super-sport-van-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Ford Transit SuperSportVan\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ford-super-sport-van-sm.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ford-super-sport-van-sm-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Transit SuperSportVan( SSV) is basically a production short wheelbase Transit Sport Van with the addition of the 200PS, 3.2 litre TDCi diesel engine that is usually only fitted to the largest, heaviest Transits. Add a custom paint job and pretty much all the extras on the option list, and you have the Transit SSV*.<\/p>\n<p>The SSV is on display at the Birmingham NEC this week, as part of Ford&#8217;s contribution to the Commercial Vehicle Show.<\/p>\n<p>The Transit SSV is the fourth such Transit that Ford has built over the years &#8211; the most recent was a Ford World Rally Transit, which came complete with a sub-8 second 0-60mph time, internal roll cage, rally-style data logger, lowered suspension and a Ford Martini World Rally livery:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Ford transit rally van by classic vehicles, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/old_motors\/3538625030\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2231\/3538625030_9808a4084a.jpg\" alt=\"Ford transit rally van\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see pictures of the first three Transit Supervans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/296\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*I have to admit that although it is pretty tasty, the Transit SSV does  seem just a little bit tame when compared to earlier Transit Supervans.  The original 1971 Transit Supervan, for example, was powered by a 400hp  V8 petrol engine taken from Ford&#8217;s Le Mans-winning GT40 supercar&#8230; Come on Ford &#8211; you know you want to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford has launched its latest Transit Supervan, the Transit SuperSportVan, which features a 3.2l, 200PS diesel engine on top of the usual Transit SportVan specification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[194,123,548,1000,999,998],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}