{"id":2579,"date":"2011-11-11T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2011-11-10T10:53:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T10:53:57","slug":"van-registrations-up-6-7-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2579","title":{"rendered":"Van Registrations Up 6.7% In October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New van registrations were 6.7% higher in October than in October 2010, bringing the year-to-date increase in the sub-3.5t sector to 17.3%, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smmt.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">SMMT<\/a>). A total of 19,370 commercial vehicles under 3.5t were registered in October.<\/p>\n<p>Growth was particularly strong in the 2.0t-2.5t van sector (vans like the Ford Transit Connect and Volkswagen Caddy), where sales were 38% higher than in October 2010. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vansize.php\">2.5t-3.5t van<\/a> sector (e.g. Ford Transit, Mercedes Sprinter) actually experienced a 3% fall compared to the same month in 2010, with sales dropping from 11,716 last year to 11,370 in October 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the figures, Paul Everitt, SMMT Chief Executive, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe commercial vehicle market remains buoyant with October registrations up by more than 10% and year to date up by nearly 20%. Efficiency is a key driver as operators are investing in the latest models across almost every market sector to reap the rewards of greater load carrying ability and fuel economy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Truck sales did even better, rising by 33.3% in October alone, bring the year-to-date increase to 22.7%. In total, commercial vehicle registrations rose by 10.7% in October alone and have risen by 18.0% so far this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van registrations rose by 6.7% in October compared to the same month last year, according to the latest figures from the SMMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1212,1213,310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579"}],"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=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}