Ford Transit Officially Turns 60 This Week

As Ford Authority reported back in April, the Ford Transit is turning 60 years old in 2025, which is quite an achievement in the automotive world. The Transit is a true global phenomenon as well, routinely topping the sales charts everywhere it’s sold. In fact, the Transit family ranked second behind only the Ford F-Series in terms of global sales last year, and its lineup continues to expand. Now, the Ford Transit is officially ready to celebrate its 60 years of existence this week, which is precisely when production of the popular van began.

Tomorrow, August 9^th, 2025, is the official 60^th birthday of the Ford Transit, and over the past six decades, that lineup has expanded and evolved in a major way – now consisting of the full-size Transit, as well as the Courier, Connect, and Custom, each of which is offered with electrified powertrain options and the full suite of Ford Pro software. In the UK, the Ford Transit has remained that country’s best-selling commercial vehicle for 59 of its 60 years in existence, with overall nameplate sales reaching 96,000 units last year – more than 25 percent of light-commercial vehicle sales, overall.

Globally speaking, Ford has built over 13 million Transit vans over its 60 years of existence – meaning that one rolls off the assembly line every two-and-a-half minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Line them all up, and those vans would circle both the earth and the moon, amazingly enough. Interestingly, the vast majority of those units have been assembled in Europe – 10.1 million – and the Transit Custom has ranked as the UK’s best-selling van for 11 consecutive years, to boot.

Perhaps more notable is the fact that the bulk of U.S.-built Transit vans are still on the road today – 98 percent, in fact, which is a pretty amazing statistic for any sort of vehicle, let alone one that’s largely focused on the commercial vehicle market. U.S. Production of the Ford Transit began at the Kansas City Assembly plant in 2014, which – since then – has churned out more than 1.5 million examples of that model on its own accord.