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Whilst not doubting others experience with their vans I have a Connect and it's pants. Bought second hand so it's previous history may be the reason for that, but based on this one I wouldn't get another. An 09 plate and it's rusted around the sills and driver floor pan. I don't care whether it was abused or not in a previous life, no modern vehicle should be rusting.
 
I've got an Ex-British Gas Caddy, I love it, it came with all the racking, internal LED lights everywhere and a security bolt on the doors and air con!
Well worth a look if you're watching the pennies.
 
Berlingos are fine too, had mine for 3 years [3 years old at the time] and had no problems, but it's important to change the oil and filter frequently and if you wanted to do your own maintenance I think it would be a pain,the 1.6hdi 90hp version I have averages close to 50mpg which I think is pretty good.
 
I used to have a connect. It went wrong a lot. It hadn't done a load of miles either, 110 when I sold it. It was an 07 and had some rust starting in a few places.

Security is pants like all ford's. Late last year someone got in and took all my hand tools, they did a load of transits in my area in one night, a master key is easily available. I tried a key from a 1997 escort and it opened my van.

I will never buy a Ford again.
 
I've got a berlingo, 13 plate, 1.6 A lucky find privately for 5.5k with only 21k on the clocks, I've had it 4 months now and can't fault it, it can be very economical and have had a steady 300mile round trip average at 60mpg. after 2000m on the trip my average is 47mpg and that's mainly short rural journeys. its a 3 seater and although a squeeeeze is handy if you need somewhere to park a third bum from time to time, the pass seats go totally flat to allow you 3m lengths in so you don't need a tube on the roof, (although I now carry 2m lengths of everything as they fit with the seats up)
 
50000 kellogs, thats 30000 real ones (miles), just about run in. my hiace has 186,000 miles on clock and not spent anything on it in the 2 years i've had it.
 
The Vauxhall Astravan suits my requirements perfectly. 141,000 on the clock of my 2007 van and still running great!
 

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