Failure inspires some to greatness and pushes others to surrender. Ford’s response to its previous failures in the minivan market has been a mix of the two. After watching sales dwindle for years, Ford surrendered the class in 2008. But then, a couple of years later, it plopped the Transit Connect into Americans’ laps. An unpolished niche urban commercial runabout with no real passenger-hauling ambitions, it nonetheless sold upward of 30,000 units annually. (While Chrysler sold almost eight times as many Town & Countries and Dodge Grand Caravans.) Now, though, we’re getting this redesigned Transit Connect that no longer suggests passengers were an afterthought. READ MORE ››
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