{"id":10189,"date":"2017-09-06T16:13:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=10189"},"modified":"2017-09-06T16:14:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:14:40","slug":"small-vans-give-lift-new-lcv-registrations-by1-5-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/10189","title":{"rendered":"Small vans lift new LCV registrations by 1.5% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UK van registrations rose by 1.5% to 15,619 units in August, as a 40% rise in small van (2.0-2.5t) registrations offset falls in most other segments.<\/p>\n<p>The latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) show that registrations of vans with a maximum gross weight of 2.0t-2.5t rose by 39.9% to 3,049 units last month. The most common cause of a large surge in registrations in this class is the delivery of a large fleet order, so I&#8217;d imagine this was the explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, registrations were flat or lower, as these figures show:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10190\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10190\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/smmt-lcv-reg-0817-sm.jpg\" alt=\"SMMT LCV registrations August 2017\" width=\"650\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/smmt-lcv-reg-0817-sm.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/smmt-lcv-reg-0817-sm-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/smmt-lcv-reg-0817-sm-624x431.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/smmt-lcv-reg-0817-sm-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LCV registrations August 2017 (source: SMMT)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Commenting on the figures,\u00a0<strong>Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive,<\/strong>\u00a0said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAugust is traditionally one of the quietest months of the year, ahead of September\u2019s plate change, so the moderate increase in the new van market is welcome news. While year-to-date figures show demand easing, this is in line with market expectations and overall registration volumes remain at a very high level. This stabilising of the market is indicative of what we can expect for the remainder of the year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Ford maintains stranglehold<\/h2>\n<p>Moving over to look at the mix of vans sold, it&#8217;s clear that Ford&#8217;s comprehensive and excellent range of vans continue to have a stranglehold on the UK market.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, more than one in every four vans sold so far this year has been a Ford. The manufacturer blocked out the top three slots in the best sellers table last month, as sales of the Transit Connect picked up:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10191\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10191\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/smmt-lcv-sellers-0817-sm.jpg\" alt=\"LCV best sellers August 2017\" width=\"650\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/smmt-lcv-sellers-0817-sm.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/smmt-lcv-sellers-0817-sm-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/smmt-lcv-sellers-0817-sm-624x286.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/smmt-lcv-sellers-0817-sm-50x23.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UK&#8217;s best-selling vans in August 2017 (source: SMMT)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ford has always been the dominant van manufacturer in the UK, but I&#8217;d guess that the firm&#8217;s French and German rivals (plus Vauxhall) may be starting to wonder what they have to do to make in-roads into the Blue Oval&#8217;s market share.<\/p>\n<p>More next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK van registrations were broadly flat in August. Ford continued to dominate new van sales, registering 27% of all vans sold last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1694,310,1885],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189"}],"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=10189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10194,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions\/10194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}