There have been substantial Fiat Ducato shortages for the last couple of years due, I understand, to shortages of the Iveco engines. Other Sevel vans have not been affected and many motorhome manufacturers who per-pandemic were Fiat only have had to start building on Peugeot, Citroen or Ford base vehicles instead.

The MH dealer I have had most of my vans from won't stock Citroen based vans after a bad experience with Citroen backup - basically non existant for the commercials. On one which went faulty he had to get it fixed via back door channels at a Peugeot dealer (the Peugeot & Citroen versions are basically the same vehicles with "badge engineering", where the Fiat version is a lot different) after the Citroen car dealer couldn't sort it out.

I don't think the Euro 6 PSA engine is anything to do with Ford - the earlier 2.2 litre lump was some form of joint venture between the two organisations, but with the 2 litre Euro 6 versions they went separate ways.

I disliked the Ford engine - supposedly 170 hp it had less useable performance that the 130 hp Fiat I p/xed for it, & used a lot more fuel in the process. It also had bizzarely high gearing and no real performance below 1750 rpm, which made setting off from standstill a toss-up between stalling & or wheelspin and 60mph was 1650 rpm in top, so 6th gear was only useable on the flat or down hill. First sign of a hill it was down to 4th, as it wouldn't pull in 5th either. Might have been OK in something lightweight like a Mondeo or Focus, but useless in a motorhome

Trying to get it fixed after it went into limp mode on the way home from picking it up (32 miles on the clock when it went in to the local Ford "Transit Centre" ! ) was a nightmare and took around 6 weeks due to lack of spares - and this was pre-pandemic. As supplied it had an outstanding recall to replace the cam drive assembly & the dealer wouldn't look at the limp mode problem until that was fixed because Ford wouldn't let them. Limp mode was eventually diagnosed as duff injectors, which were on back order. When they did come available, it took 3 weeks to get them from Cologne to Huddersfield - not very urgent for a new vahicle sat undriveable in the dealer. Ford's generous compensation for 6 weeks off the road on a new van ? - £100 service voucher that could not be used against buying oil ! I found out later from the MH dealer that the second owner had to have all 4 injectors replaced again less than a year after I had had them done

I would rather walk than buy another Ford !

Nigel B.