{"id":5620,"date":"2013-12-03T16:59:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T16:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5620"},"modified":"2013-12-03T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T16:59:20","slug":"ford-transit-custom-passes-10000-mark-in-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5620","title":{"rendered":"Ford Transit Custom Passes 10,000 Mark In First Year`"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ford Transit Custom has proved popular with fleets and SME buyers and sold 10,000 units within 12 months of its launch.<\/p><\/div>\n

There are now 10,000 Ford Transit Customs circulating on the UK’s roads, despite the fact that one year ago, there were none.<\/p>\n

Ford says it sold 10,000 Transit Customs during the first 12 months of launch, one month earlier than expected. Ford sells around 65,000 vans in the UK every year — more than in any other EU country — meaning that the Transit Custom now accounts for nearly 1-in-6 of Ford’s UK van sales.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the figures, Andy Barratt, Ford of Britain sales director, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t be happier that we\u2019ve reached our target to sell 10,000 Transit Customs a whole month earlier than planned. Ford is in a strong position, offering customers more choice by selling previous generation Transit alongside new Transit Custom, helping to maintain our firm grip on the UK\u2019s medium van segment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Ford continues its product onslaught, it is also investing to meet the precise needs of its business customers by introducing 100 specialist Transit Centres across the UK<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The ‘product onslaught’ referred to by Andy Barratt is the company’s plan — now nearly complete — to completely replace its commercial vehicle range by 2014. According to Ford, all\u00a0four new models \u2013 Transit Courier, Transit Connect, Transit Custom and next generation two-tonne Transit \u2013 will be launched by 2014.<\/p>\n

The quality and modernity of the Transit Custom — whose people carrier variant recently became the first vehicle in its class to earn a five-star Euro NCAP crash test rating<\/a> — means that it’s a natural premium alternative to the Volkswagen Transporter and Mercedes-Benz Vito, and although the van itself isn’t built in the UK, buyers can feel confident that they are supporting British manufacturing jobs, as the Transit Custom’s 2.2-litre diesel engine is built at Ford’s plant at Dagenham, whereas the German vans are entirely built abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ford of Britain has sold 10,000 Transit Custom vans in the 12 months since the model was launched, beating expectations and accounting for nearly 1-in-6 of Ford’s UK commercial vehicle sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620"}],"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=5620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5623,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions\/5623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}