Ford Transit Custom UK’s Best Selling Van Of January 2025

In Europe and the UK, The Blue Oval has long dominated the light commercial vehicle (LCV) market, and no model in its lineup sells in larger quantities than the Ford Transit Custom. In fact, the Ford Transit Custom was the best-selling van and LCV in the UK in the entirety of 2023 and 2024, and it wasn’t even close. The Transit Custom closed out last year by posting strong results in December, more than doubling the sales total of the second-place Vauxhall Vivaro, and that success continued into the first month of the new year, too.

The Ford Transit Custom once again topped the LCV and van sales charts in the UK in January 2025, according to new data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), by moving 2,728 units, while the Ford Ranger actually overtook the Vivaro this time around – which was also the case with the third-place Ford Transit in a clean podium sweep for The Blue Oval, all while the Puma continued to rank among the top sellers among retail models.

As far as the overall LCV market in the UK goes, it actually posted a rather large year-over-year decrease of 20.5 percent to 19,050 units. In terms of individual segments, only small vans recorded an increase – 89.8 percent to 668 units – while vans were down 22.3 percent to 11,537 units, medium vans fell by 30.4 percent to 3,507 units, 4x4s dropped 27.2 percent to 531 units, and pickups declined by 6.5 percent to 2,807 units.

“The van market has enjoyed a bullish performance over the past two years but, amid a tough economic environment, businesses are under pressure,” said Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive. “It means action is needed to drive fleet renewal and back the industry which has invested massively to produce new EV models. The mandate review must, therefore, deliver workable regulation that reflects market realities, and ensure infrastructure rollout that makes fleet decarbonisation a commercially viable, compelling proposition.”