{"id":1656,"date":"2010-12-08T17:21:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T17:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2010-12-08T17:21:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T17:21:54","slug":"renault-bags-van-of-the-year-at-what-van-awards-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/1656","title":{"rendered":"Renault Bags Van of the Year At What Van? Awards 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1251\" title=\"renault-master-sm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/renault-master-sm.jpg\" alt=\"The new Renault Master\" width=\"350\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/renault-master-sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/renault-master-sm-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Renault has won four awards at the recent What Van? Awards 2011, including the prestigious Van of the Year and Large Panel Van of the Year awards for its all-new Renault Master model. This follows on from its Fleet World Best New Van award <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/1404\" target=\"_self\">earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Master is available in both front and rear-wheel drive and comes in a variety of payloads and lengths that mean it offers a realistic challenge to almost all the other large panel van models on the market.<\/p>\n<p>The new Master is also being rebadged and sold as the Vauxhall Movano, continuing the long-standing partnership arrangement between Vauxhall\/Opel and Renault.<\/p>\n<p>What Van? editor Paul Barker said that the new Master was &#8220;\u2026an excellent new addition to the light commercial vehicle market&#8221; and that the &#8220;increased breadth of range, including rear-wheel drive models for  the first time, and the industry-leading levels of interior  functionality and practicality in particular swayed the judges\u2019  decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read our thoughts on the Renault Master <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/1250\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> &#8211; suffice to say that if quality and reliability are up to scratch, it looks like a formidable market player that is a big improvement on the old model.<\/p>\n<p>Renault&#8217;s other What Van? awards were for the introduction of its latest customer service initiatives, Renault iCare and Renault Pro+ and for its forthcoming Renault Kangoo Van Z.E. electric van, the first all-electric van to be built completely by a mainstream vehicle manufacturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Renault Master has won Van of the Year and Large Panel Van of the Year at the recent What Van? Awards 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[547,121,685,546],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656"}],"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=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}