{"id":1443,"date":"2010-07-01T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2010-06-17T14:07:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T14:07:56","slug":"automatic-van-hire-is-it-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/1443","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Van Hire &#8211; Is It Possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We often get asked if there are any companies that offer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/automaticvanhire.php\" target=\"_self\">automatic vans for hire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is that there are a few &#8211; but not many.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Would You Want To Hire An Automatic Van Anyway?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are two main reasons that demand for automatic van hire is growing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some people have automatic-only car licences &#8211; so they can only drive automatic vans<\/li>\n<li>Automatics are easier to drive &#8211; you don&#8217;t have to think about changing gear. When you&#8217;re not used to driving a van and are concentrating on manoeuvring it, this can be a big help<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why Aren&#8217;t Automatic Vans More Popular, Then?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historically, the types of automatic gearboxes used in cars have not been very well suited to vans. They have offered poor performance and poor fuel economy &#8211; not good if you are running a business that uses vans.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all starting to change, however. Newer types of automatic transmission don&#8217;t have these disadvantages &#8211; in fact, the latest automatics can offer fuel economy and performance that is the equal of a well-driven manual. They also don&#8217;t have the higher emissions that old-style automatics have.<\/p>\n<p>For these reasons, automatic vans are becoming more common, but they do still have one disadvantage for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\" target=\"_self\">van hire<\/a> companies &#8211; they cost more to buy in the first place!<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, expect to see more automatic cars and vans in the next few years &#8211; the new automated gearboxes that are in use have too many advantages to ignore and are steadily gaining ground on traditional manuals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/automaticvanhire.php\" target=\"_self\"><em>Click here to visit out automatic van hire page and learn more about automatic vans<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sometimes get asked if automatic van hire is available. The short answer is &#8211; not always, but it is getting more popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[432,825,18,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443"}],"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=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}