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2011 Ford Transit Connect XLT Wagon [V227]

2011 Ford Transit Connect [V227] in Motorweek, Non-fiction TV, 1981-2025 IMDB Ep. 29.17

Class: Cars, Van / MPV — Model origin: DE — Built in: TR — Made for: USA

2011 Ford Transit Connect XLT Wagon [V227]

[*][*][*] Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase 

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Kazimann IE

◊ 2010-02-24 17:49

 Made in Turkey, for USA (the amber sidelights).

Ingo DE

◊ 2010-02-24 20:08

 Is the Ford Transit available on the US-market? Or shall it be from now :??:

rjluna2 US

◊ 2010-02-24 20:13

 Yes, I have seen at the road.

I have read somewhere that Ford did something unusual to reduce tariff/tax by adding seats at the rear to be shipped to USA, then removed the seat once it arrives at USA. I may be wrong :/

Gag Halfrunt UK

◊ 2010-02-24 20:27

 Yes, it's called the "chicken tax" and the Wikipedia article already mentions the Transit Connect specifically.
Quote The Chicken Tax — actually a 25% tax on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks — was a 1963 response by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken.[1] The period from 1961-1964[2] of tensions and negotiations surrounding the issue, which took place at the height of Cold War politics, was known as the "Chicken War".[3]

Eventually, the tariffs on potato starch, dextrin, and brandy were lifted,[4] but over the next 46 years the light truck tax ossified, remaining in place to protect U.S. domestic automakers from foreign light truck production (e.g., from Japan, Thailand).[5] Though concern remains about its repeal,[6][7] a 2003 Cato Institute study called the tariff "a policy in search of a rationale."[4]

As an unintended consequence, several importers of light trucks have circumvented the tariff via loopholes — including Ford (ostensibly a company the tax was designed to protect), which currently imports light trucks as "passenger vehicles" to the U.S. from Turkey and immediately shreds portions of their interiors in a warehouse outside Baltimore.[1]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

chris40 UK

◊ 2010-02-24 21:10

 I seem to have read somewhere that a 'green' wagon version (hybrid? electric?) is being touted as a taxi in the USA.

Gag Halfrunt UK

◊ 2010-02-24 21:14

 There's an electric version made by Smiths Electric Vehicles in the UK and, separately, Ford has announced an electric model for the US in partnership with a company called Azure Dynamics Corporation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Transit_Connect

m.pfaffeneder DE

◊ 2014-02-21 19:13

 Transit Connect 2.0

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