Inovev forecasts 75,000 units per year of the new Ford Transit Connect
- Ford has just unveiled the new generation of its Transit Connect van (segment N1-1) which is a rebadged version of the recent Volkswagen Caddy, following agreements between the two carmakers in the production of light utility vehicles.
- The new Transit Connect will therefore be assembled at the Poznan plant in Poland, alongside the Volkswagen Caddy, from the start of 2022, and no longer at the Ford plant in Valencia in Spain.
- Initially, the new Transit Connect was supposed to be made in the United States, but Ford changed its strategy after its agreements with Volkswagen. Following the scheduled end of the Mondeo and Galaxy / S-Max, the Valencia plant will only assemble one model, the Kuga SUV.
- The new Transit Connect uses the Volkswagen body (with its two wheelbases) and the Volkswagen 1.5 petrol engine with 114 hp and 2.0 diesel with 102 hp and 122 hp fitted to the Caddy. No battery electric is planned at this time.
- The career of the Ford Transit Connect has evolved up and down since its launch in 2003, with sales drops in 2009 (75,000 units) and in 2013 (50,000 units), while peak of production was reached in 2011 (130,000 units). Since 2016, the Transit Connect, undoubtedly competing with the Transit Courier launched in 2014, has been declining steadily, dropping from 100,000 units in 2016 to 75,000 in 2018, 70,000 in 2020 and 55,000 in 2021. The model launched in 2003 and updated in 2013 is therefore replaced at the right time, with the advantage of inexpensive investments. Inovev forecasts75,000 units per year of the new Ford Transit Connect.
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