Enlarge / Everybody loves a very good van, and Supervan 4.2 is an excellent van. (credit score: Ford)
Concorde, NC—On Wednesday, Ford Efficiency held an official launch occasion for the 2024 season. The brand new GT3 model of the Mustang makes its competitors debut at subsequent weekend’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, marking the beginning of a brand new strategy to racing for the Blue Oval, one which entails promoting buyer race vehicles as a enterprise line, not only a manufacturing facility group. Whereas we had been there, we additionally rode in a brand new electrical racing truck demonstrator, however the primary motive I received on the quick flight right down to Charlotte was to take a look at some of the delightfully bizarre race vehicles of the previous few years, the Ford Transit Supervan 4.2.
It is the most recent in a line of untamed demonstrator automobiles primarily based on the venerable Transit van, Ford’s industrial workhorse in Europe and, more and more, the US. Ford began making an electrical model of the Transit a few years in the past, and once we drove that electrical van, I might need pushed a few the engineers and PR individuals to tears by repeatedly asking them, “So, are you going to make a Supervan model of this, too?”
The primary Supervan dates again to 1970 (or possibly 1971), when somebody had the intense thought to stay a Transit physique shell on a Ford GT40 race automobile chassis as a approach to promote the brand new van. The 1980s and 1990s noticed two new Supervans, this time utilizing Formulation 1 engines. Now that EVs are the brand new hotness, the attraction of an electrical Supervan most likely appeared apparent.
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