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The Ford Transit is a van produced by the European division of the Ford Motor Company. The Transit's design is reflected in other manufacturers' designs, like the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter.
The current Transit was introduced in 2000 and borrows styling cues from Ford's "New Edge" designs like the Focus, and Ka. Developed by Ford in the United States, the main innovation is that it is available in either front or rear-wheel drive. This model features the Duratorq turbo diesel engine. The Durashift EST automatic transmission (optional on all rear-wheel drive and standard on the 2.4 L, 125 bhp (93 kW) Duratorq TDdi engines) features controls mounted on the dashboard, a specially adapted manual gearbox, tow-haul mode, economy mode and winter mode.
Two years later, Ford introduced the Transit Connect, a smaller panel van aimed at replacing the older Escort and Fiesta based models. It shares very little with the full-size Transit in terms of engineering, although is produced alongside the larger van in a new purpose built facility in Turkey.
The five-millionth Transit rolled off the Southampton line on Monday, 18 July 2005 and was donated to an English charity. The Transit has been the bestselling light commercial van in Europe for 40 years, and in some countries the name "Transit" has passed into common usage as a term applying to any light commercial van.
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