{"id":5783,"date":"2014-01-30T17:14:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T17:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2014-01-30T17:15:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T17:15:20","slug":"all-new-ford-transit-connect-is-a-hit-with-mears-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5783","title":{"rendered":"All-New Ford Transit Connect Is A Hit With Mears Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deliveries of the all-new Ford Transit Connect van have begun to Mears Group \u2013 a major building maintenance services provider \u2013 which is receiving its first 100 new Fords this month.<\/p>\n

The all-new Ford Transit Connect<\/a>, and its larger sibling the Ford Transit Custom, were key models helping to secure a five-year contract with Mears, with Ford supplying up to 1,000 light commercial vehicles a year. The Gloucester-based company expanded its fleet last year and now manages 4,300 vans and 700 cars nationwide.<\/p>\n

Mears Group asset manager, Jo Hammonds, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new Ford Transit Connect\u2019s fresh styling, greater load space, better economy, emissions and whole-life costs are the factors which make it a very attractive prospect for us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Deliveries of 100 all-new Ford Transit Connect have begun to Mears Group.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mears\u2019 vans are used by the company\u2019s 16,000-strong workforce to provide response and planned maintenance services to local authorities and registered social landlords, delivering 6,000 repairs a day to a portfolio of nearly one million properties.<\/p>\n

The all-new Ford Transit Connect offers practicality and flexibility as standard, providing up to 3.6m\u00b3 of load space in long wheelbase models, and can carry up to 1,000kg of cargo.<\/p>\n

An ingenious load-through bulkhead also accommodates long load items up to 3m, while the flexible dual front passenger seat means three occupants can sit comfortably in the front.<\/p>\n

Transit Connect is offered with a choice of advanced petrol and diesel engines, including the award-winning 1.0-litre three-cylinder EcoBoost petrol engine, which delivers 100PS and 170Nm of torque with a six-speed manual transmission.\u00a0Combined with other fuel-saving technologies, such as Auto-Start-Stop, it achieves fuel savings of up to 24%, and CO<\/span>2<\/sub> emissions that are up to 25% lower than the previous model.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Services provide Mears Group has taken delivery of the first 100 of its all-new Ford Transit Connect vans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1694,1826,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783"}],"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=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5787,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions\/5787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}