Ford Transit

My partner owns a transit with is actually a g reg tipper pick up transit. It is old but it has proven itself time and time again and is a great working vehicle. The cab itself is not that comfortable, being a work vehicle it has been fitted to be quick basic and has your simple gadgets, glove box, interior light and heaters however the seats themselves are not comfortable as the padding is not brilliant so I would not reccomend it for long journeys. However it is farily spacious inside with a good three seats in the cab which allow for movement. I have been in other vans which leave the middle person squashed up against the gear stick the transit does not do this. ...  Read the complete review

A few months ago I had my first chance to drive a van “in anger” – something I always wanted to do, ever since, at the age of 5, I rode in the cab of a late 70’s Transit Luton van driven by my dad when we moved house. Then, a few years ago the band I played in had transport in the shape of an H-reg Transit LWB minibus, but this one had somehow sneaked out of the factory games with a Granada 2.9-litre V6 engine. This thing absolutely flew (although it was limited to 88mph because the tyres couldn’t take anything faster) and sounded like, of all things, a VW Beetle on steroids. So, when I moved to Guernsey in August 2002, I decided to hire a ...  Read the complete review

I drive a new, front wheel drive, short wheel base transit. The front wheel drive format increases space in the rear significantly, by lowering the floor approximately 100mm over rear wheel drive variants. The space in the back is, of course, enormous - it's a van, after all. What surprised me most when I first drove it was how quiet it is, though this is improved by the bulkhead seperating the cab from the loadspace. On variants without the bulkhead, the noise reverberates around, but it's still not bad; you can talk comfortably at 70mph. Another thing which is not usually associated with vans is driving pleasure, but the transit provides it, ...  Read the complete review