Style, productivity and technology ‘custom made’
The Transit Custom was awarded the International Van of the Year title in 2012, confirming its status as a trend-setter in the one-ton commercial van market.
Ford’s new Transit Custom, the top-selling one-ton commercial van in Europe, is now available in South Africa, delivering a bold new design, interior enhancements and improved productivity for business.
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Sporting a bold new front-end design with three-bar Transit grille, Ford’s one-ton van provides drivers with the ideal mobile office environment, featuring a practical cabin that offers superb stowage, along with improved comfort and ergonomics.
Introduced in Europe late 2012, followed by its South African launch in early 2013, the Transit Custom was the first of Ford’s expanded all-new Transit line-up to go on sale – later joined by the Transit medium commercial vehicle (MCV) line-up – and was a key driver in Ford becoming Europe’s number one commercial vehicle brand in 2015, a leading position it has held ever since.
The Transit Custom was awarded the International Van of the Year title in 2012, confirming its status as a trend-setter in the one-ton commercial van market.
It has a dynamic and professional new front-end appearance that shares the same design DNA as Ford’s latest passenger cars, with a high-mounted trapezoidal grille and dynamic, slim headlamps.
The new Transit Custom introduces a range of advanced driver assistance features that share technologies found on Ford’s latest models.
It offers commercial vehicle operators an outstanding breadth of capabilities from a vehicle line-up that includes two wheelbase lengths, two body styles in the three-seater Panel Van or the Kombi Van that provides for seating up to six occupants, as well as three trim levels (Ambiente, Sport and Trend).
Load-carrying ability is a primary consideration for commercial customers, and this is where the award-winning Transit Custom Panel Van excels.
The new model offers a gross payload ranging from 1 155kg on the Sport SWB to a hefty 1 505kg on the 92 kW Ambiente LWB.
Innovative load space features enable owners to carry a wide variety of goods, such as the load-through hatch in the bulkhead for extra-long items up to a maximum length of 3 452mm.
Depending on model, the cabin boasts either partial or full rubber insulated floor covers designed for easy cleaning.
All derivatives are approved for towing a 750kg unbraked trailer, and between 1 300 and 1 800kg for a braked trailer, depending on model.
The new Transit Custom is powered by Ford’s proven range of Duratorq TDCi four-cylinder turbodiesel engines that employ common rail direct injection to deliver the ideal combination of performance, fuel economy and reliability.
Three versions of this engine are offered in the Panel Van line-up, starting off with a 74kW unit in the long wheelbase Ambiente that delivers 310Nm of torque from just 1 300 r/min.
A higher-output version is also available, credited with 92kW and 350Nm.
In the versatile Kombi Van range, two models are offered, comprising the Ambiente long wheelbase derivative and the higher-specification Trend short wheelbase variant. Both use the 92kW/350Nm Duratorq TDCi engine, with a six-speed manual transmission common to all models.
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