Last December, Leon LaJeunesse decided to shop for a work van for his general contracting business. He figured he’d find plenty of year-end incentives, but he didn’t expect to be sorting through an explosion of several new, odd-looking models on dealers’ lots.
“I’ve already got two Econoline vans,” says LaJeunesse, referring to Ford’s body-on-frame E-Series van that it discontinued last year in favor of the European-style, unibody Ford Transit. “I was looking for a small van—almost a portable gang box for getting in and out of the city.”