What do you want from a Transit? What is your ideal Transit?

[GBBiker]

The MK6 and Di engine thread has given me a few laughs. It's also made me think "What do I really want in an ideal van?"


1. I want a van that looks good in standard form. For me, this is the MK6 body.

2. I want an engine that is cheap to maintain, reliable and will happily cruise at 70-80 on the motorway. The MK5 Di Turbo is my choice.

3. I want 'creature comforts'. Not really specific to any Transit model, but I like leccy windows, heated seats, PAS, HID headlights, CL and decent ICE.


So, I guess my ideal van would be a MK6 Jumbo with a Di Turbo lump. The rest can be added as modifications as and when.


Anyone selling a MK6 Jumbo with a fooked engine or a Di Turbo lump?



How about you guys?

[ake]

My van is my ideal van Till I can afford a 200ps mwb/mr 350 for work, a sportvan double cab in van for play and a swb low roof MK5 smiley turbo for tinkering

Dream on

[ginsters]

sport style crewcab pick up,with seats removed for my tools to slide out on shelfs,iroko or teak flatbed with caulked and pitched joints like a boat deck with my company logo routed and veenerd in

[Luke]

my ideal transit is what i'm building mk2 (best looking) shape cossy engine i suppose ione day i'll swap the engine for something quicker (V8 TT mabe) but i want the van as an everyday usable vehicle so i have to have 'reasonable' mpg the back i'll be fitting 3 more seats so i'll have a 6 seater with a nice load area to keep the practicality

i can honesly say if i won the lottery i wouldn't get rid of it - it'd recieve a lot of mods and the engine and box would be on here in free to good home but the van will always be mine

[sidspop]

Something that doesn't start rusting before it leaves the producion line would be good

[vandaft1980]

I have got mine I have just got too finish it for next saturday for truckfest got as much too do so can see a few late nights ahead

[Campertess]

Small,caracteristic,go any where,extendable/expandable.
Interior layout to allow multiple uses.
Reliable and easily fixed when on the rd.
Free rd tax

TESSIE ,Mk1 pop top camper.
I miss her so much

I bought a Mk 3,liked driving it power steering n all that , but it had no caracter.
So i bought a big coachbuilt mk2 with a mk1 interior,hopeing it might feel like my Tessie,cos in the cab it looks the same but no.
A year down the rd i am about to sell the big beast as my circumstances have changed.
need to downsize.
I dream to have Tessie back and up n running nicely as shes my ideal vehicle.
Ive tried the rest n the first was the best ..definatly !

[Brains_transit]

non rusting mk6 swb would be perfect for me.

[ake]

Something that doesn't start rusting before it leaves the producion line would be good

non rusting mk6 swb would be perfect for me.

I know we're allowed to dream, but you guys are just bein silly

[madmark_50484]

Def MK5 its like a balance of modern but still rough hardman stuff the newer ones look more like toys.

I personally like the big steering wheel and the noisy engine I do like the power steering but the other comforts just make it girly like

[belly]

A 200 ps glx air conned drw jumbo with 5m load area just pipping the ivecos and new sphincters.

Also made from a carbon monocoque giving a higher payload

[Scotty86]

Work - White sportvan
Play - none as I have my ideal transit but if I was to get another one then it would be a 200ps limited MWB DCIV with all the extras

[Daveyboy]

A 200 ps glx air conned drw jumbo with 5m load area just pipping the ivecos and new sphincters.

Also made from a carbon monocoque giving a higher payload

A 200ps drw LWB HR 460 Transit, so I didn't have to drive MWB 515 Sprinter.

[martynx]

My TDCI Mk6 but with a proper auto box .. & a fat leather steering wheel like on the Mk7.... & a pair of electric recaro's... & softer springs .

[ake]

My TDCI Mk6 but with a proper auto box .. & a fat leather steering wheel like on the Mk7.... & a pair of electric recaro's... & softer springs .

What about a remap