Ford Transit

Could White Van Man be getting a facelift? Blink and you might miss it, but Ford’s insistence on camouflaging the front of its ubiquitous Transit load-lugger forced our spies to look closer.

Yet they didn’t find very much, prompting us to question why Ford would disguise an unchanged car, and a relatively young one at that? The current model hit showrooms in 2006.

So what we have here is a testing mule for a new engine in the current Transit, which explains the disguised front bumper. Most obvious would be the addition of the 2.2-litre Duratorq TDCi engine from the current Mondeo, which with 400Nm of torque will give the latest Transit unmatched pulling power.

Expect subtle revisions around the body to separate this new flagship Transit from lesser variants when it appears next year.