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As far as mercantile vehicles go, this monster is like an apparition; like the delusional fantasy of a drug crazed van driver. It shouldn’t exist. It has utterly no practical use. However, it looms, on the horizon, like a white spectre with a blue go quicker stripe, hurtling towards us at a speed a Ford Transit merely will have to not be capable to achieve. And guess what? This van driver’s fantasy has come true. (Hopefully it’s the only van driver’s fantasy which does in truth come true. One fears the others may be rather tasteless. Sausage and mash draped all over scantily clad women; or worse – Little Chef restaurants.) This ladies and gentlemen is the Ford Transit SuperSportVan. And guess what, it isn’t even for sale, making this article (or novelette) a finish waste of time. So, why is it that couriers, electricians, builders and anybody else who could perhaps have reason to drive a van would wake up hot and sweaty if they dared to dream of this four-wheeled, exhaustively anti-social mercantile vehicle. Well, how does a 200 horsepower, 3.2 litre turbo diesel engine sound? Van drivers of the UK give me a ‘Hell Yeah!’. And what when it comes to a six speed automati gearbox, with an upgraded aero package, rolling stock and classic blue strips over white? Everyone say, “Oooh! What a van!” Right, now you’ve all been whipped into a frenzy it is time to fetch you back down to world with an unaided, 9,000 ft, bone shattering bump. Sadly, this working class delight is a mere conception vehicle which was knocked together for the recent Commercial Vehicle Show at the NEC in Birmingham, just so Ford may show us what their expert engineers are genuinely capable of when given a free reign. That’s what I thought the Ford KA was for. Anyway, the Ford Transit SuperSportVan was not just put together on a whim; apparently this van has inheritance with a lot of predecessors and everything. The long line of hot panel wagons may be traced back to the 1971 GT40-based Transit Supervan; then followed a Cosworth V8-powered version in 1984 and a foolish supervan in 1995 which packed a 650hp Formula One engine. Now I’m no mechanical engineer, far from it, but surely with all the aerodynamics of a Ford Transit Van (essentially none, I’ve a more aerodynamic fridge freezer in my garage at home) strapping a 650hp engine to a Ford Transit is akin to attempting to squeeze a actually fat man through a actually little cat flap – I’m gorgeous sure that’s how aerodynamics work. Anyway, that’s sufficient rubbish, have a look at this page, showing more details and a picture of the aforementioned monster, and see what you think. And remember, it’s not for sale so don’t get yourself all worked up.
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