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Originally Posted by JamieGeek
I wonder if the geometry is all wrong for that: On the pickup chassis the driver sits behind the engine and low, on the van chassis the driver sits above the engine. How much engineering will Ford be willing to undertake to modify that.
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This question intrigued me enough to look a little into it. Obviously it's not possible to know what Ford may do or could do, but I did find that in older E-Series chassis specs it clearly shows that the driving position of the stripped chassis is different than on the vans or cutaways. This confirms they can move the driving position sometimes. Whether safety regulations allows it on lighter-duty chassis at present is a different question.
We already knew that on Axis/Vegas stripped chassis the driver sat higher with steering wheel at higher elevation, but on this sketch it shows the driver on cutaways further back and lower by use of an articulated steering column (similar to pickup trucks). On stripped chassis it shows steering column straight and more upright.
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