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By Jonathan Crouch

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Ford's E-Tourneo Courier brings the market for small van-based electric MPVs right up to date. It's practical affordable to run and surprisingly stylish. Put this one down as surprisingly likeable.

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Ford has been slow off the mark bringing electric cars to market. Even this one, the E-Tourneo Courier, arguably isn't really a car but a passenger-carrying MPV version of the E-Transit Courier van. Still, it's undeniably a very thoroughly engineered product and is far more practical for family use than most sensibly-sized EVs. Considering its origins, it also looks surprisingly un-LCV-like. The Tourneo Courier also comes with a 1.0-litre EcoBoost petrol engine, but even that fossil fuelled version is based on the all-electric platform that undergirds this BEV variant. Ford wants us to see this new model line as 'fun and fuelled by a restless need for adventure'. You might merely see it as an alternative to the small van-based MPVs produced by Stellantis Group brands like Vauxhall, Citroen and Peugeot.