Dear Ford,

A Transit Connect RS needs to happen. I want to see small delivery vans drifting about the street. Ken Block videos need more than stunts and this would provide the potential for plot development, such as needing to rush a transit connect full of Fiesta R5 parts back to the ship for the crew to repair the rally car that he crashed. Also criminals sometimes steal large items and need a fast indescript get away vehicle that they can use in a chase if need be. Plumbers needs them for service calls as when someone calls proclaiming that their E36M3er's backed up, they need you there already. Cable installation appointments would no longer need a 4 hour window. This vehicle if made would have the potential to change the world.

They also need to sawzall the Transit Connect into the Transit Connect Econoline Pickup. That low load floor.

Two words, Mustang Ute

In reply to captdownshift:

Do you use voice-to-text software? I ask for a pretty selfish reason: I find a lot of your posts quite entertaining, and I want to read more of your words.

No homo.

Four words: manual trans Transit Connect

All-wheel-drive Mustang Ecoboost diesel V8 Mustang convertible station wagon. With a six-speed manual, of course.

Make the Transit Connect RWD like the bigger Transit vans first please.

Or even a full size Transit

BrokenYugo wrote: They also need to sawzall the Transit Connect into the Transit Connect Econoline Pickup. That low load floor.

That would be amazing. Ford should hire you. Yesterday.

mazdeuce wrote:

BrokenYugo wrote: They also need to sawzall the Transit Connect into the Transit Connect Econoline Pickup. That low load floor.

That would be amazing. Ford should hire you. Yesterday.

They did try at one point in time, not for that though.

I did mention this to a somewhat high ranking Ford engineer friend at least once.

In reply to AngryCorvair:

I'll actually be getting a voice recognition setup this weekend. One of the domains that I have is going to become a mix of a blog and of webmining automotive news and the other is going to be devoted to the project car, budget rallycross and privateer stage rally advice and allow for teams to share press releases, bios and link to media content.

I'll copy and place relevant topics on here as thread starting points opposed to steering people to the sites to read about it. In fact, I'll actually be far less likely to rant or be overly opinionated on the sites.

Having just given up on getting one for this model year, I'd be satisfied if Ford would just up production of the Focus RS.

Would you believe someone has already done that?

Wait - more than one:

David S. Wallens wrote: All-wheel-drive Mustang Ecoboost diesel V8 Mustang convertible station wagon. With a six-speed manual, of course.

For an MSRP of $5995.

Then people on this board will bitch about how that's too much and wait 5 years to buy one after they depreciate.

David S. Wallens wrote: All-wheel-drive Mustang Ecoboost diesel V8 Mustang convertible station wagon. With a six-speed manual, of course.

In brown. With 10" wide steelies.

Dear Ford, Thank you for sweating the little stuff on your big vans. I could tell you had smart guys working there a couple of years ago when I rented an E250 and noticed the rear door latch wasn't square to the van... but WAS precisely aligned with the arc of the door as it closed. Everybody always slams that door, every single time; now it won't break the latch by hitting it off centre a couple of million times. Nice one. Then a couple of days ago I sat in a new big Transit at the Toronto auto show and did what everybody does: I reached for the armrest under my right elbow. Hey! It's adjustable to about 30 different positions, from 90 degrees to a lot less. This probably costs an extra 75 cents or something per unit, but somebody thought of it, somebody designed it, and somebody approved it. Good for them. People work hard in these vans, so it's nice to see people working hard ON them too.

I'm still waiting for the Mazdaspeed5.

Appleseed wrote: I'm still waiting for the Mazdaspeed5.

I came in here to say exactly this. In a half a heartbeat, I'd buy a Mazdaspeed5 or Transit Connect ST or something like it. Hell, I wish they still made the HHR SS. I like my FoST, but wish it were 10-20% larger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg6WdboK1nY

A reincarnation of this could be something I could get on board with as well.

Type Q wrote:

David S. Wallens wrote: All-wheel-drive Mustang Ecoboost diesel V8 Mustang convertible station wagon. With a six-speed manual, of course.

For an MSRP of $5995. Then people on this board will bitch about how that's too much and wait 5 years to buy one after they depreciate.

10 years.

After looking at Ford's site, looks like you can get the smallest version of the RWD transit with the 3.5 Ecoboost (sadly, de-rated to 310hp in these stock and no manual trans), a factory gutted interior, no rear glass and a 3.73 / LSD axle for under $35k... Sadly, the smallest version is still kinda long (130" wheelbase) and kinda tall (82" overall). 68" track width, although it looks like it wouldn't be too hard to widen it up a little. And it weighs ~5000 lbs

So it seems like it would almost be kinda fun, but it's not quite there.

aussiesmg wrote: Two words, Mustang Ute

Australian demand might make this happen.

kanaric wrote:

aussiesmg wrote: Two words, Mustang Ute

Australian demand might make this happen.

LOL. Australian demand has led to Ford stopping making cars there.