Ford commercial vehicles
At Ford -Nutzfahrzeugen is vans , trucks and buses . Listed here are the commercial vehicle series that were produced or sold by Ford in Germany.
overview
The truck and bus production in Germany, which began in Berlin in 1926 and was relocated to Cologne in 1931, was discontinued in 1961 due to chronically falling sales figures. In particular, the valveless two-stroke diesel engines newly developed by Ford Cologne in 1955 failed to convince customers, as they were not technically mature enough when they came onto the market, and as a result, they thoroughly ruined the good reputation of Ford trucks .
Since 1953, Ford has continuously offered a van under the name Transit .
From 1973 Ford tried to regain a foothold on the market for medium and heavy trucks, initially with the N and D series taken over from Great Britain . This was supplemented by the Ford Transcontinental long-distance truck from 1975 and replaced by the Ford Cargo in 1981 . While the Transcontinental ran out without replacement in 1984, the Cargo was offered in Germany until 1992. Ultimately, Ford withdrew from the truck market again when it was phased out. The British manufacturing plant had previously been sold to the competitor IVECO .
Type table
| Construction period Produced vehicles |
model series | annotation | image |
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Minibus / Minivan |
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| 1953-1965 | Ford FK 1000, 1250 and Ford Taunus Transit | Development of Ford Cologne, minibus and transporter |
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| 1965-1978 | Ford Transit II | British development, minibus or van |
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| 1978-1985 | Ford Transit III | Minibus or transporter |
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| 1985-1993 | Ford Econovan | Delivery van / bus |
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| 1986-2000 | Ford Transit IV | Minibus or transporter |
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| 2000-2006 | Ford Transit V. | Minibus or transporter |
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| since 2003 | Ford Transit Connect | Vans |
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| since 2006 | Ford Transit VI | Minibus or transporter |
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Trucks |
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| 1948-1958 | Ford Rhine / Ford Ruhr | Trucks ( long-nosed , 1.5-3 tons payload) |
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| 1951-1961 | Ford FK series | Development of Ford Cologne, 2-stroke diesel engines, trucks (2 to 4.5 tons payload) |
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| 1956-1961 | Ford G398 ("NATO goat") | Military truck (Hauber) |
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| 1973-1981 | Ford A series | British development, small trucks (up to 5.6 t gross vehicle weight) |
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| 1973-1981 | Ford N series | British development, medium-sized truck (up to 14.5 t gross vehicle weight) |
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| 1975-1984 | Ford Transcontinental (H-Series) | Heavy trucks (up to 38 t total weight) |
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| 1981-1992 | Ford Cargo | British development, partly with air-cooled Deutz diesel engines, medium-sized trucks (most recently up to 40 t total weight) |
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Minibus , omnibus |
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| 1948-1955 | Ford Rhine | The series was also offered as a bus | |
| 1951-1961 | Ford FK series | The FK series also served as the G798B and G199B bus chassis | |
| 1965-1981 | Ford D series | The D series (in the D N series) was also offered as a bus | |
| 1972-1982 | Ford A series | The A-series from British development was also offered as a minibus | |
| since 1965 | Ford Transit | Since the second generation, the Transit has also been offered ex works or as a minibus by suppliers |
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