{"id":1516,"date":"2010-08-11T15:23:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2018-03-01T20:13:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:13:47","slug":"2010s-what-van-award-winners-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/1516","title":{"rendered":"2010’s What Van? Award Winners Are Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re thinking of buying a new van this year but are not sure where to start – or are simply looking for an alternative to the flexible and trustworthy Ford Transit – then the What Van? 2010 awards<\/a> might be a good place to start.<\/p>\n

Journalists are never happy to leave a good thing alone, and the What Van? judges have scoured the van market for all possible contenders, choosing a completely new van model as their Van of the Year 2010. The Nissan NV200 is based on the same platform as a Nissan Micra but manages to squeeze a load length of just over 2m into an overall length of only 4.4m – considerably shorter than most short wheelbase panel vans.<\/p>\n

Other interesting category winners include the little-known van versions of the Citroen C-Crosser\/Mitsubishi Outlander<\/a> in the 4×4 van category and the Ford Transit in the Minibus<\/a> category. The Iveco Daily won the Large Panel Van category, its larger range of engines and weight choices helping it to pip the Mercedes Sprinter to the post.<\/p>\n

Both large vans contenders offer some of the cleanest engines ever seen in this sector – all Sprinter models are now compliant with Euro 5 and some Daily engines go one further, complying with the voluntary EEV (Enhanced Environmentally-friendly Vehicle) standard, which is designed as an intermediate step between Euro 5 and Euro 6.<\/p>\n

For a full list of the What Van? 2010 Award winners and the judges’ thoughts on them, click here to visit the What Van? website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thinking of buying a new van this year but not sure how to choose? The winners of this year’s What Van? Awards might make a good starting point – full details here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[617,871,877,875,496,876,49,368,809,873,878,874,872,546],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516"}],"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=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10942,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/10942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}