Will we be getting the new sixth-gen Transit?
Ford may be busy getting ready for its big party at KLIMS13, but here's some other news about the brand on the local front. The Ford Transit is set to go on sale in Malaysia next year, and it will be locally assembled - the company has announced that production of the vehicle is slated to begin early 2014 at Sime Darby's Inokom facility in Kedah.
The Transit, in its fourth-gen guise, was sold here for a short period in the earlier part of the last decade - the upcoming introduction heralds a return to the light commercial segment in Malaysia for the Blue Oval.
Or the fifth-gen one?
Two variants of the Transit will be available locally, the 13-seat Window Van 370L and the Panel Van 350L, both in high roof form, powered by a 2.2 litre Duratorq TDCi engine, with the turbodiesel paired to a six-speed manual transmission, the VMT6 if the van comes in its front-wheel drive configuration. The oil burner has different states of output tune - we're unlikely to get the 85 PS version, which leaves the 115 PS or high output 140 PS form.
No mention either of whether the Transit we'll be getting is the outgoing fifth-gen V347, which has the more wedge-like face and is seen in the first two pix in the photoset here, or the new sixth-generation one - with no accompanying photos, it's very much anyone's guess. As for pricing, indicators should come about as production gets closer to being underway.
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