{"id":2336,"date":"2011-09-10T09:39:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T09:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2011-09-08T10:01:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T10:01:26","slug":"transit-retains-most-stolen-van-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2336","title":{"rendered":"Transit Retains &#8216;Most Stolen Van&#8217; Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2338\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2338\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2338\" title=\"Ford Transit Super Sport Van\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ford-super-sport-van-sm-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Ford Transit Super Sport Van - Transits are the most stolen van in Britain\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ford-super-sport-van-sm-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ford-super-sport-van-sm.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ford Transit is the most stolen van in Britain<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Ford Transit has retained its status has the most stolen van in the UK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/1410\">click here<\/a> for last year&#8217;s results).<\/p>\n<p>Coming in second was the Land Rover, followed by the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and then the Volkswagen Transporter.<\/p>\n<p>HPI&#8217;s hit rates for stolen vans tell the story &#8211; 17.6% of Ford Transits that undergo a HPI Check turn out to have been stolen, compared to 11.8% of Mercedes Sprinters and VW Transporters.<\/p>\n<p>The Ford Transit is also most likely to have been involved in an accident and written off, too.<\/p>\n<p>A whopping 15% of Transits that undergo a HPI Check are found to have been previously written-off as a total loss by an insurance company. This figure is much higher than for any other van &#8211; the next highest van on the list is the Volkswagen Transporter, with 8% of those checked having been written-off by an insurance company.<\/p>\n<p>It all adds up to a stark warning &#8211; if you are buying a used van, use the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpicheck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HPI Check<\/a>\u00a0service to make sure that the van is not stolen, has no outstanding finance (another common problem) and has not been written-off by an insurance company.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleetnews.co.uk\/news\/2011\/9\/5\/ford-transit-and-land-rover-top-the-most-stolen-van-list\/40503\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fleet News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ford Transit has retained its status has the most stolen van in the UK (click here for last year&#8217;s results). Coming in second was the Land Rover, followed by the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and then the Volkswagen Transporter. HPI&#8217;s hit rates for stolen vans tell the story &#8211; 17.6% of Ford Transits that undergo a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[49,373,808,807],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336"}],"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=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}