{"id":11235,"date":"2018-06-06T04:45:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T04:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=11235"},"modified":"2018-06-06T04:45:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T04:45:38","slug":"uk-van-market-steady-in-may-as-registrations-climb-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/11235","title":{"rendered":"UK van market steady in May as registrations climb 2.4%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Van hire companies are among the biggest buyers of new vans each year in the UK. They&#8217;re particularly big buyers of vans in the 2.5-3.5t weight category, such as the Ford Transit Custom and Mercedes-Benz Sprinter.<\/p>\n<p>New registrations of models in this segment rose by 2% to 17,349 in May, according to figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) this week.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a strong surge in demand for vans in the 2.0-2.5t weight category, where registrations rose by 21% to 4,269. This segment includes the popular Citroen Berlingo. I suspect that such a large increase was caused by a major fleet order being delivered &#8212; perhaps Royal Mail or another large user of this model.<\/p>\n<p>Offsetting these gains was a 21% fall in registrations of vans with a maximum gross weight of under 2.0t. Models in this segment include car-derived vans like the Fiesta Van and compact models like the Citroen Nemo.<\/p>\n<p>The overall results was that van registrations rose by 2.4% in May, providing some stability after a period of declines:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11237\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11237\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smmt-lcv-reg-0512-0518-sm.jpg\" alt=\"UK van registrations May 2012-May2018\" width=\"650\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smmt-lcv-reg-0512-0518-sm.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smmt-lcv-reg-0512-0518-sm-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smmt-lcv-reg-0512-0518-sm-624x485.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smmt-lcv-reg-0512-0518-sm-50x39.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK van registrations May 2012 &#8211; May2018 (source: SMMT)<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Ford is still the top seller<\/h2>\n<p>None of these changes had any impact on the best seller lists, where Ford continues to dominate. The Transit Custom was the UK&#8217;s best-selling van in May with 4,237 new models hitting the road &#8212; 57% more than the second-placed Ford Transit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11236\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11236\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smmt-lcv-sellers-0518-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Best sellers UK LCV market May 2018\" width=\"650\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smmt-lcv-sellers-0518-sm.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smmt-lcv-sellers-0518-sm-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smmt-lcv-sellers-0518-sm-624x288.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smmt-lcv-sellers-0518-sm-50x23.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UK&#8217;s best-selling vans in May 2018 (source: SMMT)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK van registrations rose by 2.4% in May, helped by gains in sales of 2.5-3.5t vans, the mainstay of the van rental sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11237,"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\/11235"}],"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=11235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11239,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions\/11239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}