Ford Shows Dallas Its Transit Connect, A Slimmed-Down Truck For Small Businesses

So what’s the next big thing in vehicles for small business? Ford contends it’s the new Transit Connect, a compact van/wagon the company’s bringing to the U.S. after seven years on the market in Europe. The automaker unveiled the light truck with the weird name to a group of Texas journalists today including a slimmed-down Jerry Reynolds, the ex-Ford mega-dealer turned radio car guy. (Jerry, who’s standing in the Transit Connect door in this photo, has lost 85 pounds thanks in part to Nutrisystem.) Ford even trotted out three local businesspeople who swear by its new little truck: Bronwen Weber of Frosted Art; Peter Ullrich of Freesia; and George Edwards of Four Seasons Decorations. Weber says she wants to replace her two Econoline vans with the 2010 Transit Connect, whose suspension is better suited to hauling around her high-end wedding cakes.