In the motoring history, the UK has had its fair share and in that, the biggest chunk, unquestionably, goes to none other than Ford Transit. Who would have thought that a simple van \u2013 which left the production line on 9 August 1965 \u2013 would become a legend one day?<\/p>\n
Over a span of glorious 50 years, the range has expanded so much that it now encompasses four models, powered by some of the most efficient diesel engines<\/strong><\/a> of this time, and over eight million Transits have found their new home worldwide.<\/p>\n This was the birth of this famous name, but they didn\u2019t want to launch the Transit as of yet, they had to wait for the Ford Corsair to hit the market. The reason was that both of them \u2013 Transit and Corsair \u2013 were having the same engine and Ford wanted to give the impression that Transit is having the engine same as Corsair rather than the Corsair having the engine of Transit<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n At last, the Transit made it to the road and priced at \u00a3540, this worked out pretty well for Ford and Transit immediately became a huge success. Just in 1965, Ford produced around 100,000 vehicles and they all started giving huge competition.<\/p>\n Brian said: \u201cAt the start I was surprised by its success, but when the orders came in you could see it was taking off. Even in Germany sales rocketed and the biggest competitor sales suddenly dropped off.\u201d<\/p>\nBirth of famous name<\/h3>\n
Transit continued to boom<\/h3>\n