GearheadGrrrl

Not Cummins' 1st gas engine- They offered a "Giesel" gas spark ignited version of their small diesel V8 in the 1960s.

Problem is the automation, not the employees- USPS top management has closed lots of regional sorting centers so now a package going 5 miles between towns goes 500 miles to a massive sorting center and back. Get a misscan somewhere in there and the package can take a cross country detour. Worked for USPS for 15 years and the workers had to do a lot of workarounds to avoid these mail detours, for example we would manually route mail directly between those adjoining towns so time critical stuff like notices, church bulletins, and ads for local businesses made it to local mailboxes before the event.

Ford hasn't seriously pitched anything to militaries in years, and there's plenty of other competitors in that space. Heck, even GM is further along than Ford in military products!

Agreed- The "Chicken Tax" has stifled innovation and jacked prices for trucks in our country, extending that insane tax to all vehicles will result in maybe 4 manufacturers surviving and Ford, GM, and Harley probably won't be one of them.

Read through all of Ford's literature and especially the order guides, you've got a lot of options with the Transit that will determine your satisfaction with the van. Also helps to find a very helpful dealer and salesperson who has experience speccing Transits that can guide you through all the choices.

To be honest, if I were looking for a class 4, 5, or 6 medium duty work truck I'd probably buy an Isuzu- Compared to the Ford, GM, and Stellantis it's a real truck with a tilt cab, etc.. Isuzu's problem is lack of dealers, perhaps GM will push more dealers to carry rebadged Isuzus?

Cummins already has this covered with 7, 10, and 15 liter inline sixes suitable for just about any commonly available fuel and some fuels that ain't so common.

I've got a '22 Transit Connect with the 8 speed auto, in the manual it says 150K miles service interval but lowers that to 30K if you're towing or hauling tall stuff on the roof. There was also a TSB that noted some internal transmission upgrades around December 2021, unfortunately mine was built before that. I'd ask Ford or the previous owner for at least a contribution to the rebuild cost, also I remember someone on the fordtransitconnect.com forum that was able to revive these transmissions by doing some work on the solenoids.

We ain't that young...

With the potential of a 25% tariff in a few days, Ford may be dropping the Escape to make room to move Bronco Sport and Maverick from Mexico.

I was talking mostly about the GTP class, Toyota was competitive but did not enter. Toyota has also been competitive with the Supra in GT3 which is similar to IMSA's GTD class as well as with the Lexus RCF.

Standing tall is easier when Toyota doesn't show and Ford isn't competing in GTP. None the less, another great win for Penske!

Great to see Mustang and Corvette win despite the BMW teams's unsportsmanlike blocking! Proof again that America can deliver higher performance at lower cost, though the Euro brand's fanboys are probably kinda depressed now...

The question no one is asking is "Why are millions suffering with big pickups and SUVs when they could be enjoying sports cars that cost less?"

Retired Teamster here, I didn't work in Carhaul but got notice of an emergency Jack Cooper Teamsters meeting. I suspect Ford has decided to flirt with the "third rail" of U.S. automakers by going to non union carriers. That theoreticly could save a few $$$, but result in the Teamsters throwing up a picket line which the UAW will honor. At best, Ford's savings will be overwhelmed by inconsistent delivery times as there's a very limited supply of auto carrier trucks and qualified drivers- Heck, the plants may get shut down when they run out of places to park completed vehicles!