{"id":7728,"date":"2015-08-20T08:37:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T08:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7728"},"modified":"2015-08-20T06:04:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T06:04:55","slug":"ford-transit-supervan-3-will-star-at-carfest-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7728","title":{"rendered":"Ford Transit Supervan 3 Will Star At CarFest South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford&#8217;s legendary Transit Supervan 3 will make an appearance at CarFest South over the August Bank Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The 1994 Supervan is a reliable crowd pleaser thanks to its outrageous\u00a0styling and\u00a0to the presence of a 295 horsepower supercharged Ford Cosworth Pro Sports 3000 engine, which can propel the vehicle to more than 150mph.<\/p>\n<p><em>(You can find out more about the Supervans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/296\">here<\/a> and see a video of the Supervan 3 in action at Goodwood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4930\">here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7729\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7729\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ford-transit-supervan3-2-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Ford Transit Supervan 3\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ford-transit-supervan3-2-sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ford-transit-supervan3-2-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ford-transit-supervan3-2-sm-50x38.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ford Transit Supervan 3 is powered by a supercharged 295hp Cosworth engine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To mark the 50th anniversary of the Transit, the Supervan will be followed by Ford&#8217;s 50th anniversary special &#8216;Gold&#8217; Transit Custom Sport Van,\u00a0similar to the model in the picture below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ford-transit-golden-convoy-50-2015-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Ford Transit Golden Convoy\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ford-transit-golden-convoy-50-2015-sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ford-transit-golden-convoy-50-2015-sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ford-transit-golden-convoy-50-2015-sm-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Among the other Ford highlights\u00a0at CarFest\u00a0South will be the\u00a0Ford Mustang, which has recently become available in right-hand drive for the first time ever.\u00a0A convertible version of the classic American muscle car will lead out the Ford vans at the head of the Ford parade:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ford-mustang-1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Ford Mustang\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ford-mustang-1-sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ford-mustang-1-sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ford-mustang-1-sm-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ford Transit Owners Club will also be in at the show with a big display\u00a0of <em>&#8220;significant&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0Transits to celebrate the start of Transit production in\u00a0August 1965.<\/p>\n<p>CarFest South should be a great weekend, especially for Transit fans &#8212; but unfortunately it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carfest.org\/content\/carfest-south-landing-page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">already sold out!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re lucky enough to be heading to CarFest South then you will have a chance to see the legendary Transit Supervan 3 in action!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1938,1694,548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728"}],"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=7728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7733,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions\/7733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}