{"id":10114,"date":"2017-08-04T15:59:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=10114"},"modified":"2017-08-04T15:59:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:59:41","slug":"new-van-registrations-stack-up-with-1-1-gain-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/10114","title":{"rendered":"New van registrations stack up with 1.1% gain in July"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A grand total of 24,766 new vans hit British roads in July 2017, 1.1% more than during the same period last year.<\/p>\n

The new figures — from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) — suggest that the van market remains stable and is not yet suffering from the slowdown being seen in the new car market.<\/p>\n

So far this year, we’ve seen a 3.1% fall in the total number of new light commercial vehicles (LCVs) registered, compared to last year. Here’s how this looks compared to performance since 2011:<\/p>\n

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Van registrations for rolling years from July 2011 – July 2017 (courtesy of SMMT)<\/p><\/div>\n

The top-performing sectors have been the 2.0t-2.5t van market (+9.2% YTD) and the pickup market (+14.8% YTD).<\/p>\n

The highest-volume sector of the van market is the 2.5-3.5t segment. Sales here have declined in line with the market so far this year, falling 4.3% to 129,871 units.<\/p>\n

The weakest sector has been vans with a maximum laden weight of under two tonnes. Registrations have fallen by 19.6% to 17.817 so far this year. In fairness, I suspect that the main reason for this decline is simply that there are now very few new vans which fall into this category.<\/p>\n

July’s top sellers<\/h2>\n

There are few changes from last month<\/a> in July’s list of top-selling van models. Ford continues to reign supreme. The Transit Connect, Transit Custom and Transit accounted for 27% of all vans sold in July, and occupy the top three slots in the bestseller list.<\/p>\n

It’s a similar story for the year as a whole:<\/p>\n

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Best selling vans in July 2017 and for the year-to-date (courtesy of SMMT)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New van registrations rose by a modest 1.1% in July 2017, according to the latest figures from the SMMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[310,1885],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10118,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114\/revisions\/10118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}