Citroën has announced that subtle modifications to the Berlingo will increase the popular small van’s fuel efficiency, with the changes taking place from November production onwards.

According to the French firm, the November changes will see the HDi 75 powered Berlingo vans’ combined cycle fuel consumption figure improve to 56.5mpg (previously 55.4mpg) and CO2 emissions reduced to 131g/km from 133g/km.

Similarly, the Berlingo LX e-HDi 90 manual micro-hybrid sees its CO2 emissions reduced to 120g/km from 125g/km and its combined cycle fuel consumption figure improve to 61.4mpg (previously 58.9mpg).

The Berlingo is Citroën’s best-selling van, and the firm is clearly keen to stay on top of the competition. Jeremy Smith, Citroën’s Head of Commercial Vehicles & Business Sector Operations, commented:

“These latest changes will help to maintain the Berlingo’s strong sales performance. In the first three quarters of this year, the Berlingo showed a year-on-year sales growth of 14% to 12,283. We expect that this popular model will deliver one of its best-ever sales results in 2014, reflecting its strong appeal to businesses both large and small.”

The Berlingo range includes a wide range of models and a full choice of drivetrain technologies — full-electric, petrol, diesel and diesel micro-hybrid (perhaps Chivas should have looked outside the Vauxhall stable, which is far more limited).

Berlingos are available with a factory built choice of L1 and L2 panel vans, 5-seat crew vans, enhanced traction vans and platform cabs for special bodywork. The Berlingo panel van is also the only model in its sector to be supplied as standard with Teletrac satellite navigation and Trackstar stolen vehicle tracking.