{"id":1337,"date":"2010-04-13T15:36:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2010-04-13T15:36:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:36:54","slug":"buying-a-new-van-consider-a-euro-5-model-to-reduce-ved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/1337","title":{"rendered":"Buying A New Van? Consider A Euro 5 Model To Reduce VED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are considering buying a new van this year, you might want to look for a Euro 5 model. New 2010\/11 rates of road tax for vans mean that new vans that aren&#8217;t Euro 5 compliant will cost nearly twice as much to tax as Euro 5 models.<\/p>\n<p>Euro 5-compliant vans will cost \u00a3125 to tax for a year in 2010\/11, against a standard rate of \u00a3200 for other new vans. Although it&#8217;s not a huge amount when set against the cost of a new van, the lower rate is guaranted for the lifetime of the van and non-Euro 5 vans may be penalised further in years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Owners of Euro 4 vans registered between 01\/03\/2003 and 31\/12\/2006 will also benefit from the \u00a3125 rate in 2010\/11 &#8211; although owners of Euro 4 vans registered since this period have to pay the standard \u00a3200 rate of tax.<\/p>\n<p>Owners of most other vans will pay around \u00a3200 for a year&#8217;s road tax if their van was registered after 01\/03\/2001 and \u00a3205 if it was registered before this date and has an engine larger than 1549cc.<\/p>\n<p>For full details of current rates, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.direct.gov.uk\/prod_consum_dg\/groups\/dg_digitalassets\/@dg\/@en\/@motor\/documents\/digitalasset\/dg_067081.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click here for the 2010\/11 DVLA fact sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Euro 5 Vans Are Available?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that the range of Euro 5 vans available is limited at present. As far as I know, these are the only current models available with Euro 5 engines at present (remember that not all versions of each model may be Euro 5):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mercedes-Benz Sprinter<\/li>\n<li>Volkswagen Crafter<\/li>\n<li>Volkswagen Caddy &amp; Caddy Maxi<\/li>\n<li>Volkswagen Transporter<\/li>\n<li>Ford Transit ECOnetic<\/li>\n<li>New Fiat Doblo Cargo<\/li>\n<li>New Renault Master<\/li>\n<li>New Vauxhall Movano<\/li>\n<li>Iveco Daily<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What this list shows is that several major manufacturers have launched new versions of their largest vans recently, and that these larger models have been the first to get Euro 5 engines &#8211; although their heavier HGV cousins have had Euro 5 models available for some time now.<\/p>\n<p>The choice of smaller vans with Euro 5 engines is pretty limited and Ford&#8217;s Transit currently seems to be lagging behind in the larger van category, too, with only the ECOnetic available in Euro 5 spec. The ECOnetic only comes in FWD\/SWB\/low roof spec so is not suitable for all Transit owners. The popular Renault Trafic\/Vauxhall Vivaro is only available with Euro 4 engines at present, too &#8211; although I suspect this will be remedied fairly soon, given Renault&#8217;s excellent reputation for modern diesels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are considering buying a new van this year, choosing a Euro 5-compliant model could (nearly) halve the road tax you have to pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[782,783,496,781,780,102,13,101,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"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=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}