{"id":3784,"date":"2012-09-20T19:29:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T19:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2018-03-07T11:42:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T11:42:45","slug":"ford-to-launch-new-courier-van-a-nemo-beater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3784","title":{"rendered":"Ford To Launch New Courier Van &#8211; A Nemo Beater?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford is to resurrect the Courier name when it launches the Transit Courier in 2014, to fill the size gap in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vansize.php\">commercial vehicle range<\/a> between the Fiesta van and the Transit Connect.<\/p>\n<p>This small van sector of the market is hotly contested and extremely popular these days &#8212; think how many Citroen Nemo, Peugeot Bipper and Fiat Fiorino vans you see around, especially in town.<\/p>\n<p>Full details haven&#8217;t been released yet but the press have been given a taster preview, which you can see in this video:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cCSTJajFzjI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Courier will be produced in Tourneo Courier and Transit Courier versions &#8212; i.e. people carrier and van models.<\/p>\n<p>More to come at some point in the future &#8212; unfortunately the Transit Courier won&#8217;t hit UK showrooms until 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vansa2z.com\/Courier-fills-gap-in-all-new-Ford-Transit-range\" target=\"_blank\">VansA2Z.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford is planning to launch a new Transit Courier to fill the size gap between its Fiesta van and Transit Connect models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[123,1568,1567],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784"}],"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=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10956,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions\/10956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}