Thursday, Oct 01, 2015 at 00:03
Any of the erro style transits .
We have seen a trend right across the board to lower ground clearance on vans and light busses, both to lower the load bed and for apearance.
in the past vans where built ontop of a chassis or subframe that sat over the
suspension.
pretty much all the modern vans are lower to the ground all round because the expactation is they will run on sealed roads,
look underneath start at the front bumper/ skirt ....... the aproach angle and front clearance is not fantastic......
look in the engine bay .... most modern cars have various auxiluaries alternators, ps pumps, ac compressors mounted low on the motor and the motor low in the engine bay.
Look at just about everything under the vehicle it is lower than older models.
The original transit had pretty good clearnace ...... back in the 70's and even into the 80;s 4wds where relativly more expensive and not as common on the road ..... the early transits where favoured because they had pretty decent road clearance and did not do too badly on rough roads and off road.
But the above goes for just about every road vehicle currently sold.
cheers
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