{"id":7535,"date":"2015-06-10T14:59:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T14:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7535"},"modified":"2015-06-10T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T14:59:20","slug":"updated-ford-transit-connect-will-cut-fuel-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7535","title":{"rendered":"Updated Ford Transit Connect will cut fuel bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7536\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7536\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ford-transit-connect-9-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Ford Transit Connect\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ford-transit-connect-9-sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ford-transit-connect-9-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ford-transit-connect-9-sm-50x37.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ford Transit Connect will be available with a new Euro VI 1.5-litre diesel engine this summer.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ford has released details of the\u00a0latest updates to its Transit Connect small van model, which will go on sale this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The changes revolve around making the van Euro VI compliant and to this end,\u00a0Transit Connects will get a new 1.5-litre TDCi diesel engine to replace the outgoing 1.6l model.<\/p>\n<p>Ford promises a 6%\u00a0reduction in fuel consumption with\u00a0an official fuel consumption figure of 74.3mpg for the\u00a0eco-friendly ECOnetic model.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Transit Connect will also gain\u00a0some new gadgets, including Traffic Sign Recognition and Lane Keeping Aid, while Ford&#8217;s SYNC2 smartphone integration technology will make its debut in the European van market.<\/p>\n<p>The Transit Connect is available in van and crew cab\u00a0bodystyles with L1 and L2 (short and long wheelbase) variants. Payloads of up to 1,000kg are available.\u00a0Ford says that so far this year,\u00a0sales are up\u00a0by 93% compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The updated Transit Connect will go on sale this summer.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">There&#8217;ll also be an updated version of the smaller Transit Courier. Good news here &#8212; Ford has seen sense and will now offer this compact van with its fantastic 1.0-litre\u00a0EcoBoost petrol engine. Fuel consumption of up to 55mpg should be possible, according to the firm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In such a small van, especially in urban use, petrol makes far more sense than diesel, but few manufacturers seem willing to embrace this logic and sell it to their customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An updated Ford Transit Connect will go on sale in the UK this summer, with a new Euro VI 1.5-litre TDCi diesel engine and some new safett gadgets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1702,123,548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535"}],"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=7535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7537,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions\/7537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}