Woooo! It's got a 9 speed now!

 

And the same front end. They still won't give Ram the updated look on front.

 

It's a big huge deal despite the lack of body panel changes. Look through it. Nine-speed, upgraded V6 (more power), all sorts of safety gear included, digital rearview mirror (that might have already been there), forward sensors with all the stuff that entails, 10-inch center screen and 7-inch driver screen (low end is 7 and 3.5 inches), and most of all no freakin’ Fiat-Microsoft junk in the telematics.

 

MS is not on board for quite some time now. Ever since the debut of Uconnect 4.

European products have switched to Uconnect 4 long time ago. Every 7" unit is Uconnect 4. Of course if it's not Uconnect 5. But 7" can't be Uconnect 3.

What can confuse you is choice of services like navigation. Uconnect 4 was made both with Garmin and TomTom.

 

How does the "Drowsiness Detection" work?

 

There are various ways this is implemented by different manufacturers. I could not find any information on this from legacy FCA brands, so I have no idea on their implementation.

 

still think it's a pity they would not combine all these updates with the fresher look. The design unfortunately does look dated

 

All those changes seem likely to be attractive to business buyers, if the price is right, though they aren't going to gain many who care about looks.

 

True.
But on the other hand driver do.
People like being behind the wheel of something that looks good. It may seem childish but if they think their vehicle looks like crap they treat it as such.
If they don't take care of the vehicles then the business owner incurs greater costs in the long run.

 

I hope then its smaller brother, the City Promaster will get some upgrades as well. I guess the next-gen City Promaster/Doblo will be based in the Citroen Berlingo/Peugeot Rifter/Opel-Vauxhall Combo/Toyota Pro Ace.

Citroën Berlingo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

The Citroën Jumpy Is bigger then the city and a good replacement.

 

arent all of these going to be replaced by Stella Large/Frame Later on? why bother with a Cosmetic update.

 

No, they are FWD vans.

 

when will the window van version comming out? And a passenger ready van...insulated walls and cieling with 'pods" in the floor for seats.

 

The STLA family are for passenger vehicles. The smaller Light Commercial vehicles are built off car platforms, but Ducato is its own front-drive architecture (Ducato is the lead product in the Ducato, ProMaster, Boxer, Jumper/Relay, Movano family of vans).

STLA Frame will not be used for any future Ducato. Unibody construction is essential to this kind of product, and switching to BoF would add weight and cost, while removing usable cargo space.