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Written by Tom Ford
This might be over-sharing, but I"ve always had a slight fetish for vans. Specifically hatchvans. Why? Not sure, really. Maybe it was the bloke I used to know who did up his mk2 Fiesta van in a pseudo-rally style. Maybe it was too much exposure to Custom RS Turbo Escort vans as a teen, or overspill from my obsession for 70s American kidnap-special vans with porthole windows and dragons/mermaids/wild horses muralled up the sides. Who knows? But there"s definitely something there. Which is why the new Ford Fiesta Sport Van made me smile. Not sure why I think it"s so good, either. Other than it"s a Fiesta (good news), with all the things that make Fiestas good, and with the rear windows replaced with metal. I"m going with the fact that the van is therefore more structurally rigid than the one with glass (pure conjecture). From a practical point of view, there"s a rubber-floored cubic metre of loadspace, 1.3 metres of load-length and a carrying capacity of 500kg, annexed from the driver by a composite/mesh bulkhead. Up front there"s either a 1.0-litre turbo EcoBoost petrol with 123bhp or a frugal 1.5-litre TDCi diesel with 118PS, both front-wheel drive and six-speed manual.
Date written: 24 Apr 2018
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ID: 11609
This might be over-sharing, but I"ve always had a slight fetish for vans. Specifically hatchvans. Why? Not sure, really. Maybe it was the bloke I used to know who did up his mk2 Fiesta van in a pseudo-rally style. Maybe it was too much exposure to Custom RS Turbo Escort vans as a teen, or overspill from my obsession for 70s American kidnap-special vans with porthole windows and dragons/mermaids/wild horses muralled up the sides. Who knows? But there"s definitely something there. Which is why the new Ford Fiesta Sport Van made me smile. Not sure why I think it"s so good, either. Other than it"s a Fiesta (good news), with all the things that make Fiestas good, and with the rear windows replaced with metal. I"m going with the fact that the van is therefore more structurally rigid than the one with glass (pure conjecture). From a practical point of view, there"s a rubber-floored cubic metre of loadspace, 1.3 metres of load-length and a carrying capacity of 500kg, annexed from the driver by a composite/mesh bulkhead. Up front there"s either a 1.0-litre turbo EcoBoost petrol with 123bhp or a frugal 1.5-litre TDCi diesel with 118PS, both front-wheel drive and six-speed manual.
Date written: 24 Apr 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 11609