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Ford Transit Connect Will Live On In Europe As Rebadged Volkswagen

As Ford Authority reported earlier this week, the next-generation Ford Transit Connect has been canceled after FoMoCo previously planned to build that model at the Hermosillo Assembly plant in Mexico alongside the Ford Bronco Sport and Ford Maverick on the same Ford C2 platform as those models. Ford will also reportedly stop selling the van in the U.S. entirely by the end of next year. However, the Ford Transit Connect will live on in Europe as a rebadged Volkswagen model, and will be underpinned by that automaker’s MQB platform.

Back in June 2020, Ford and VW signed off on a landmark partnership agreement that will see the two automakers share resources and co-develop a handful of vehicles, including the next-gen Volkswagen Amarok, which is based on the new Ford Ranger, as well as a pair of future Ford EV crossovers built on VW’s MEB platform. However, the first fruit of this relationship was actually the 2022 Ford Tourneo Connect, which was revealed back in October.

The new Tourneo Connect is essentially a rebadged Volkswagen Caddy with the same drivetrain options and output, albeit renamed to fit within the Blue Oval family. That van features a few distinct styling cues to differentiate it from its VW counterpart, though it is basically the same, right down to the engines that power it, which are built by Volkswagen but bear the EcoBoost and EcoBlue names.

In the meantime, U.S. customers will still have a variety of full-size Ford Transit models to choose from, including the all-electric E-Transit and the forthcoming Transit Trail, which is an off-road-focused variant already on sale in Europe that’s expected to launch in the U.S. early next year.

We’ll have more on the next-gen Transit Connect soon, so be sure and subscribe to Ford Authority for more Transit Connect news and around-the-clock Ford news coverage.

Brett's lost track of all the Fords he's owned over the years and how much he's spent modifying them, but his current money pits include an S550 Mustang and 13th gen F-150.

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  1. Thanks a lot Ford … are you trying to run away customers ? I ordered a Transit Connect close to 2 months ago … today I read where my vehicle will be a ’23 model will be the last one to be built … I’m seriously considering canceling the order. You did this to me on the car i’m driving now (C-Max Hybrid) among other cars. Time for you to come to a understanding, not all of us give two schnitts about a SUV … you may have just lost my business forever.

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  2. I think Farley had been spending too much time in a van down by the river with his deceased cousin, Chris.
    VW is nothing but warmed over dog feces. How’s that fudging of emissions data going for ya, VW??

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    1. It’s not so much that as the repair costs because of typical over-complex and over-thought “superior” German engineering. 347 parts to do a 78 part job.

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  3. Please have someone call about turning my 2020 Ranger truck for a GAS POWERED, 2022 RANGER TRUCK XL OR A TRANSIT CONNECT XL.THE COLOR DOES NOT MATTER AS LONG AS IT IS NOT YELLOW, WHITE, OR GREEN. THANK YOU.

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