Ford Cargo

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The Ford Cargo is a service offered on the European market 1981-1992 trucks manufacturer Ford in Asia, Oceania and Venezuela the model as Ford Trader is known. There refined models of the Ford Cargo will be offered as well as in South America today. The Cargo is also produced by Otosan in Turkey and models are also exported to the Middle East and Eastern Europe next to the Asian and Oceanic market.

Model introduction in 1981

The Ford Cargo 1981 as a successor to current models of Ford D-Serie/Ford N series and in the area of the lighter models and the Ford A- series had come to the already introduced the Ford Transit. The total weight was initially 6-15 tonnes, mainly models the 7.5 - ton class and the area were sold anything about it to 9 tons total weight.

The cargo was compared with the predecessor a complete redesign as a front handlebar with standing under the cab diesel engine. The cab was designed modern, fell from relatively square and had a steeply rising front of the vehicle with only little backwards inclined windscreen. The doors appear alongside a normal side window on a front auxiliary window that was pulled down for better sight on smaller road users next to the vehicle on both sides up to the waistline above the fender. Depending on a rectangular, horizontal headlights and turn signals per side was mounted on the bumper next to the radiator grille usually held in matt black plastic. The cab was not carried out following on the basis of earlier American design and the stylistically also American taste predecessors of the N series full width of the vehicle, but the fenders were a bit wider designed to cover the full width of the vehicle. On offer were a near- and a long-haul cab for the larger versions; However, the latter also had only the reduced width and only the fenders were exhibited correspondingly wider.

Engines

For the drive, water-cooled Ford diesel engines were 63-110 kW ( 85 and 150 hp). The motors 63 to 88 kW (85 to 120 hp ) were the vehicles reserved with 7 and 8 tons total weight. For the smallest model, there was only the smallest machine, for the 9 - to 15 -ton versions handed the engine range 88-110 kW ( 120-150 hp).

Heavy versions

With decline of manufacturing and the foreseeable end of production of long-distance truck Ford Transcontinental also models were offered for heavy long-haul operations from 1982, which are also obtained despite large chassis received the relatively small cab. In these variants, air-cooled diesel engines by Klöckner- Humboldt -Deutz and Cummins water-cooled units were due to lack of their offerings are used.

The Ford Cargo was designed from the outset as transport and distribution trucks and little suited both the equipment operator's cab as well as motorization for long haul and inferior to the competitors from the outset. The distribution transport him to get established in Germany, the biggest drawback was the very thin dealership and service network, as only a few Ford dealers were willing to build or vorzuhalten sales and above all workshop capacity for a marginal product in their range temporarily thoroughly. The Ford Cargo trucks were manufactured during the entire production period for the European market in the British Ford plant in Langley in Berkshire. In Germany the Cargo achieved at least a moderate success in the UK, he was for a time leader in the field of light distribution trucks.

Production end of the UK

With the cessation of production of the Cargo in the UK in 1992, Ford withdrew from the European truck industry. The British factory was sold to a competitor IVECO before the end of production of the Ford Cargo. Unofficial sequel to the Ford Cargo was thus the IVECO Euro - Cargo, for the heavy rare models of Iveco Eurotech. Both models wore in the British Isles transitional even the Ford brand logo in addition to the vehicle front. From the streets of Central Europe, the Ford Cargo is due to his age now largely disappeared.

Ford Cargo and derivatives world

The Cargo is a world car and some of its offshoots are or have been built in various countries. So he continues to be offered in a revised version in South America, as a trader in Venezuela. In the North American market the vehicle was sold as Freightliner Cargo and replaced by the Ford LCF 2004. In India, it is produced by the manufacturer Ashok Leyland as Ecomet, as well as in Sri Lanka in Lanka Ashok Leyland.

In Turkey, Ford Otosan Cargo is built in, there are now since 2012 a completely new revised model, which also still has serious long-distance transport models and is also exported to various countries. From there, the cargo is exported to the Middle East and Eastern Europe. When Ford Trader is it exported to Oceania and Asia. Panhard built a military version of the Cargo as Panhard TC54.

Ford Cargo / Trader South America version to 2012

Ford Cargo / Ford Trader of Otosan to 2012

Ford Cargo / Trader South America version since 2012