New van registrations rose by 9.4% in September, according to new figures from the Society of Motor Manufacterers and Traders (SMMT).<\/p>\n
The rise is a contrast to the private car market, where sales fell, but continues a trend seen in commercial vehicle sales throughout 2011 – van sales are up 19.5% over the year to date and 254,045 vans have been sold so far this year.<\/p>\n
According to the SMMT figures, van sales in the 2.0t+ market have been particularly strong. One reason for this might be the impending LEZ rule change<\/a>, which will mean that any vans registered before 2002 will have to pay \u00a3100 to enter the London<\/a> Low Emissions Zone from the start of 2012.<\/p>\n Commenting on the figures, Paul Everitt, SMMT Chief Executive, said:<\/p>\n \u201cConfidence returned to the commercial vehicle market in 2011 and the September market continues the upward trend, growing 8.8% on last year. The future state of the economy is certainly a concern, but it\u2019s clear that owners and operators are currently investing in new, fuel-efficient vehicles to help weather the storm of high fuel prices.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New van sales are up 19.5% so far in 2011, perhaps due in part to the 2012 LEZ rule changes in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1174,625,310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444"}],"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=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}