: ) i'm sharing as i pass through...
Whatever you choose i wish you many happy adventures.
I'll play the T or PM game.
I really, really tried to get myself wrapped around the Transit. Even had a Portland dealer having a Quigley T shipped from a Seattle dealer lot for me < < only to have the Seattle lot crew wreck the van trying to get it onto the flatbed. This latest Transit Fail got me to stop and take a breath.
Waaaay back in 2014 i was beginning to research for a replacement for our current Chevy AWD 1500 conversion (which we will put up for sale probably in December or January).
Part of the research included the new-to-US PM. There are as many peeps that dig the looks on both the T and PM that dislike them. For my wife and i we never liked the T looks, but were willing to live with it if need be. But we really dug the Euro look of the PM. And spent some time viewing the Euro YT videos of the conversions using the similar platform.
Since we are totally spoiled with the current rig's AWD it was the measure of road-handle-ability. We took two test drives in new Transits, but rear ends slipped on dry pavement (one was empty, the other had ~2K over rear axle). When we took the PM out in similar conditions and same course/roads it behaved like our AWD and was basically on rails. I've always been either a FWD or AWD guy from AWD Volvos to FWD Toyotas. The last RWD vehicle we had was a 2007 TACO 4x4. Before that? A 1980 Toyota Celica GT nearly 4 decades ago.
So it was the drive/handling that sold my wife and i on the PM. She never liked the T drive, even when we took the QT out and up a trail/forestry road with 4x4h engaged. Sure, it was cool to have the 4x4 on the side, but we had to admit that in all the driving of our TACO, we engaged the 4x4 twice. BUT FWD and AWD? We've had many instances when it was noticeable that it was working silently behind the curtain to keep us safe on the wet PNW roads.
The first thing i did was have BFG KO2s put all around on the PM to get it ready for winter driving.
Time will tell if all of this was a good move on our part. For any given vehicle (volvo and toy included) there are issues. For us, we were totally into the nice fit and finish of our PM and the ability to have dual swivels and other things. On ground clearance? The only way to get it is to honestly go bigger tires. The Transit and PM and even Ford e and GM/Chevy are all within an inch or so of each other stock, and we've never had clearance issues on the groomed forestry roads we travel (the lift and all the trail bling on the current AWD Chevy is way more for cool factor and looks than out of need... even though it is very functional off pavement on such dirt/gravel roads).
Just a ramble and food for thought.
: ) Thom