The plant currently produces 75, 000 transit vans a year but this will be reduced to 35, 000 a year.

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Yet it was in that very beachfront neighborhood, full of senior citizens in bikinis by day but seedier by night, that the two foreigners hailed one of the fleet of public transit vans often used as a speedier alternative to buses.

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These include the next-generation Fiesta compact, the new Mondeo mid-size sedan, three new SUVs the Kuga, EcoSport and Edge along with a new family of commercial vans, including a redesigned Transit full-size van, Transit Connect compact van and the even-smaller Transit Courier.

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