DISRUPTERS SET TO FAIL

I hope Ford realises it has four loss making ventures on its hands — there is no way the significant resources deployed by Chariot over a limited geographic area, for only part of a day to one destination, will ever make money

INSIDE TRACK

It may look like a Transit delivery van, but beneath the allover contravision wrap of LF67 FVR is one of Ford’s Chariot minibuses challenging London’s bus and rail services.
ROGER FRENCH

ArrivaClick in Sittingbourne, RATP Dev’s Slide in Bristol, McGill’s Collect&Go in Wemyss Bay, CityMapper and Gett’s Black Bus and now the latest, Ford Motor Company’s Chariot in London, are nothing new. Just a techy reinvention of the 1970s craze for diala- ride bus services.

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