NEW MK8 TRANSIT UNVEILED AT MOTORSHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Honey monster]

Seems like they are all going the same way, Just seen the new nissan van today and the looks are quite close.

[mealic]

A MK5 family earlier...

and not a homemade peg in site

[Altransit]

A MK5 family earlier...

Not a speck of rust in sight there

[barabas]

A MK5 family earlier...

Loving those wheels! Will they fit on my Mk5?

[transitandy]

as fickle as it sounds the more i look at this mk8 the more dated the mk7 looks , just like the mk2 to mk3

I might have to change my mk7 sooner than I'd hoped now

I wish i could

[stevo]

I'd agree, its about time ford brought their vans inline with all the other manafacturers and made a van that doesn't look like a box on wheels

Thats what a van basically is though, all the french do is make that box slighlty smaller, rounded at the top and then put doors and other bits on it that fall off. The Transit is the best at being a van mainly because of its size and versatility, why change it when its worked for nearly 50 years?
And i think some of you need to go to spec savers if you like the look of that. Its a Fiat with a Ford badge on. Its not a Transit anymore.
No longer backbone of britain. Bullshit of Britain maybe.

[Mike]

And i think some of you need to go to spec savers if you like the look of that. Its a Fiat with a Ford badge on. Its not a Transit anymore..

LOL, are you living in the dark ages? Things move on, designers are designers because they have a view that plumbers, chippies, sparkies and even pool turd scrapers don't have. Every time a new Transit is launched people bitch about it for a while because they have no foresight. The MK6 looked radical when it was launched, same with the MK7, the MK8 makes them look dated.


As for the Fiat comment, that just makes you look stupid, but I know that you don't actually think that. At the end of the day it was designed by Ford, will be built by Ford and will have a Transit badge on the back, but you can always buy a Fiat, it'll be cheaper in the first instance.

[ake]

And i think some of you need to go to spec savers if you like the look of that. Its a Fiat with a Ford badge on. Its not a Transit anymore..

LOL, are you living in the dark ages? Things move on, designers are designers because they have a view that plumbers, chippies, sparkies and even pool turd scrapers don't have. Every time a new Transit is launched people bitch about it for a while because they have no foresight. The MK6 looked radical when it was launched, same with the MK7, the MK8 makes them look dated.


As for the Fiat comment, that just makes you look stupid, but I know that you don't actually think that. At the end of the day it was designed by Ford, will be built by Ford and will have a Transit badge on the back, but you can always buy a Fiat, it'll be cheaper in the first instance.

He must be confusing the Transit with the Ka and the Fiat 500

[Mike]

He must be confusing the Transit with the Ka and the Fiat 500

Nah, he's got 20:20 vision

[AndyJ2506]

I'd agree, its about time ford brought their vans inline with all the other manafacturers and made a van that doesn't look like a box on wheels

Thats what a van basically is though, all the french do is make that box slighlty smaller, rounded at the top and then put doors and other bits on it that fall off. The Transit is the best at being a van mainly because of its size and versatility, why change it when its worked for nearly 50 years?
And i think some of you need to go to spec savers if you like the look of that. Its a Fiat with a Ford badge on. Its not a Transit anymore.
No longer backbone of britain. Bullshit of Britain maybe.

well i like it and i would personally rather have a van that was more car like as i don't need a box on wheels. You could always buy a luton i suppose

[Gavin]

no mwb version then?

apart from that, so long as you can get an 8x4 sheet in between the arches who cares if its a bit smaller, more euro spec car type van?


the inderior does look like it was designed by someone who played with too many transformers as a kid but all makes are heading this way so it makes no difference.

[Mike]

It's not that clear which sizes will be available in this model, but one way or another there will be various sizes, but not at launch.

[V184]

I'd agree, its about time ford brought their vans inline with all the other manafacturers and made a van that doesn't look like a box on wheels

Thats what a van basically is though, all the french do is make that box slighlty smaller, rounded at the top and then put doors and other bits on it that fall off. The Transit is the best at being a van mainly because of its size and versatility, why change it when its worked for nearly 50 years?

probably because times change x

[bigjohnthomas]

New models are made to increase sales who wants a dirty old mk7 when all the chicks want a guy with a mk8
Whitemice was right it all started when you could only have 2 pleats in your skirt in the 1940s

[soprano1982]

LOL, are you living in the dark ages? Things move on, designers are designers because they have a view that plumbers, chippies, sparkies and even pool turd scrapers don't have. Every time a new Transit is launched people bitch about it for a while because they have no foresight. The MK6 looked radical when it was launched, same with the MK7, the MK8 makes them look dated. .

more like its because the designers are finally listening to the lot above