{"id":120,"date":"2008-04-20T20:24:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T19:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2008-04-28T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T11:25:04","slug":"vauxhall-astravan-wins-another-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/120","title":{"rendered":"Vauxhall Astravan Wins (Another) Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/new-astravan-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130 alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"new-astravan-sm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/new-astravan-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Vauxhall Astravan\" width=\"275\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>Vauxhall&#8217;s estate car sized Astravan has always been popular with builders, self-employed tradesmen and others who need the practicality of a small panel van but don&#8217;t want to trade up to a Transit or Citroen Despatch-sized van.<\/p>\n<p>The Vauxhall Astravan is consequently one of the most popular vehicles in the car-derived van class and has just won the award for best car-derived van at the Professional Van &amp; Light Truck Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The British-built Astravan is made at Vauxhall&#8217;s Ellesmere Port plant and also has another advantage over even small vans like the Transit Connect &#8211; its car-derived nature and maximum gross weight of under 2 tonnes means that it is subject to car speed limits, rather than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/105\">lower speed limits which apply to all vans with a plated weight of over 2 tonnes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture (C) GM Corp. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vauxhall Astravan is consequently one of the most popular vehicles in the car-derived van class and has just one the award for best car-derived van at the Professional Van &#038; Light Truck Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[218,217,215,216,119,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"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=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}