The Mercedes-Benz Citan

The new Mercedes-Benz Citan small van has won its first award, the honestjohn.co.uk Most Popular Van award, at the website’s 2013 awards ceremony, which took place in London recently.

The Citan went on sale in March, and Dan Harrison, who is the editor of honestjohn.co.uk, says that the website’s review of the new Citan has been the most popular van review it has published so far:

“The review which has stood head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to our users is the new Citan.

This is the first ever small van from Mercedes-Benz and it feels a cut above the competition in terms of quality and refinement.”

The Citan is based on the current Renault Kangoo, and is built by Renault in the same factory in France.

Although it is trimmed and specified to Mercedes’ levels, it has disappointed in one area where Mercedes cars and commercial vehicles usually excel — safety. As I reported in April, the Citan only managed a three-star Euro NCAP crash test score when the MPV variant was tested earlier this year.