David Shuttleworth, product marketing manager for commercial vehicles, Ford Motor Company of Canada, points out features on the Transit Connect commercial van.

North American fleets owners looking for a wide variety of options for their light duty P&D or service vehicles will appreciate the way Ford is going to market with its new Transit line.

The Transit line of trucks is being brought to North America to replace the aging E-Series commercial vehicles that have been best sellers since 1961.

Available in three heights, two wheel bases, three lengths, with four body styles and three different engines, Transit can be configured in dozens of different ways.

“We’re going to have some 50-odd configurations available with the new Transit line,” said David Shuttleworth, the company’s product marketing manager for commercial vehicles.

In introducing the new line to Canadian journalists in Toronto yesterday, he said Transit will be “a whole range of solutions for different customers.”

Transit is now rolling off Ford assembly lines in Kansas City, Missouri. It is the big brother to the Transit Connect line of commercial vans, introduced in North America in 2009.

“Transit has almost the same heritage and legacy in Europe as the E-series does here,” Shuttleworth said. “And while Transit is a new vehicle for North America, this is not a new vehicle for us. We’ve been building and selling these around the world for decades and now they’ve come to North America.”