Ford Transit Connect awesomeness

This is the most awesome TC I've ever seen…at my house:

If anyone has a better TC card, play it.

I must be missing something?

What's awesome about this Transit Connect?

If that is a mail slot to the left of your front door, you win the cool thing prize of the day!

Well....Zooming in shows Google Fiber.

you shiny happy person. you suck.

FTW BTW

You'll have to let us know how Google Fiber is. It will be a while until it is even a competitor in our market, so I don't have to deal with customers bullE36 M3.

In reply to pinchvalve:

If Ford made that with a back seat and a manual transmission, I'd be on it like white on rice..

TC you say?

Google Fiber will get to my town.... never.

92dxman wrote: In reply to pinchvalve: If Ford made that with a back seat and a manual transmission, I'd be on it like white on rice..

You and me both.

92dxman wrote: In reply to pinchvalve: If Ford made that with a back seat and a manual transmission, I'd be on it like white on rice..

Back seat check, manual trans, sorry, I don't belive we even do a manual in Europe.

Always thought this would be a good useful car for me. And I have wondered if the third row seat from an expedition could be made to fit.

I still want to see one in old school Ford Racin' Blue, lowered on black steelies (or Cragar Soft 8's!). I have a hunch it would work really well.

Google Fiber...is that like Metamucil???

92dxman wrote: In reply to pinchvalve: If Ford made that with a back seat and a manual transmission, I'd be on it like white on rice..

Mine has a back seat but if you want third row seating you will have to wait until the 2014 models arrive.

@ Adrian: They do have manuals in the UK. And they come with diesel engines. Most of them over there are that configuration.

If they were available with a stick, I'd be driving one right now.

petegossett wrote: Google Fiber...is that like Metamucil???

you could Bing it to find out..

alex wrote: I still want to see one in old school Ford Racin' Blue, lowered on black steelies (or Cragar Soft 8's!). I have a hunch it would work *really* well.

I'd rock that on the steelies (I'm such a scene whore )

Hal wrote:

92dxman wrote: @ Adrian: They do have manuals in the UK. And they come with diesel engines. Most of them over there are that configuration.

Damn, I had no idea!

Google Fiber? Helps you take a Google dump to become Google regular?

Before the first year the TC came out, there was a prototype of it at the Philly Auto Show and it had a manual trans. I'd be okay with no third row. As long as it has a second row back seat, i'm game. Maybe Mazda should take the TC, rebadge it and put one of the Skyactiv motors in it. If the Cx-5 can get the mileage that it does, I bet a Skyactiv TC would pull pretty good mileage.

Shouldn't you be able to swap manual transmission stuff from a similar year focus for a bolt in operation?

pinchvalve wrote: FTW BTW

Interestingly enough the Google Fiber trucks have racing stripes.

pinchvalve wrote: If that is a mail slot to the left of your front door, you win the cool thing prize of the day!

That is indeed a mail slot. My house was built in the late 1930s. Several houses nearby have special doors & compartments for milk delivery.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: You'll have to let us know how Google Fiber is. It will be a while until it is even a competitor in our market, so I don't have to deal with customers bullE36 M3.

So far, it's been great. I did a sped test on a desktop using ethernet, and saw 654 Mbps download and 639 Mbps upload. I haven't noticed much that I would label mind blowing, but Netflix and Huku videos start instantly, and skipping around is like watching a DVD.

RossD wrote: Shouldn't you be able to swap manual transmission stuff from a similar year focus for a bolt in operation?

Transmission - Yes, but final drive ratio will hurt load capacity
Shifter - Probably Pedals - No, you would have to get them from Germany ECU - The big problem, you would have to use a manual trans ECU and do some rewiring.

In reply to BAMF:

Cost?

Nevermind, only in Kansas City right now. Guess I'll stick with Verizon fiber optic.