you see the white ones everywhere. basically every builder, plumper,  electrician, gardener, mechanic, etc... owns one.

one of the reasons for its sucess is the fact that it was designed around a ford escort chassis and scaled up. the back was specifically designed to fit standard sizes of shit wood perfectly. during the 70's and 80's police worked out that over 90% of all bank robberies involved a ford transit because of its car-like speed and handling, it could carry a lot of stuff and was cheap.