{"id":4307,"date":"2013-02-25T17:13:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=4307"},"modified":"2013-02-25T17:13:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T17:13:03","slug":"ford-to-display-new-transit-range-at-birmingham-cv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4307","title":{"rendered":"Ford To Display New Transit Range At Birmingham CV Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3723\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3723\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3723\" alt=\"All-new Ford Transit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ford-new-transit-1-sm-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ford-new-transit-1-sm-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ford-new-transit-1-sm.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Ford Transit, due to go on sale in 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ford will exhibit its widest and most high-tech line-up of commercial vehicles ever at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvshow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">International CV Show 2013<\/a> at the NEC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/birmingham\">Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New models on show will include the all-new Transit, a full-size <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/info.php?inforef=xlwb-van\">large van model<\/a> that will compete directly with the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, Renault Master and Fiat Ducato family and is due to be introduced late in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The 5,400sq ft Ford stand will have more than 15 vehicles on display, including the all-new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3232\">Ford Transit Custom<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3722\">all-new Ford Transit Connect and the all-new Ford Transit<\/a> \u2013 with more detail on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3784\">all-new Ford Transit Courier<\/a> to come at the show.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Ovenden, Ford Britain managing director, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFollowing the award recognition of the new Transit Custom at the IAA CV Show in Hannover, Ford is continuing the product story by introducing its most exciting range of commercial vehicles ever at this year\u2019s CV Show here in Britain.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Production versions of the all-new Ford Transit Custom Sport Van and ECOnetic models will also be on display, alongside new Ford Fiesta Van and the award-winning Ford Ranger models completing the picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.co.uk\/Commercialvehicles\" target=\"_blank\">Ford\u2019s largest-ever commercial vehicle family<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ford will also have representatives on hand to talk about its new Transit24 service offering, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4255\">I wrote about recently<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford will be making a big splash at the 2013 CV Show, with a total of 15 commercial vehicle models on display, including the all-new Transit and Transit Connect, as well as the Transit Custom and more hints about the forthcoming Transit Courier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1665,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307"}],"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=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4310,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions\/4310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}