{"id":2802,"date":"2012-01-26T04:48:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T04:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2012-01-22T17:02:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T17:02:02","slug":"vauxhall-tops-uk-van-production-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2802","title":{"rendered":"Vauxhall Tops UK Van Production League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2803\" title=\"Vauxhall Vivaro at Vauxhall's Luton plant\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/vauxhall-luton-plant-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Vauxhall Vivaro at Vauxhall's Luton factory\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>Vauxhall produces more vans in the UK than any other manufacturer, making 60% of the commercial vehicles which are built in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of these (57%) are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vauxhall.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vauxhall<\/a> Vivaro vans, which are built at the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/luton\">Luton<\/a> plant. The remainder of Vauxhall&#8217;s UK van production takes place at its Ellesmere Port plant (near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/liverpool\">Liverpool<\/a>), where Astravans are built on the Astra production line.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, 64% of UK-built Vivaros were exported to Europe, highlighting the fact that despite public perception, Britain has a thriving motor industry that exports a substantial number of vehicles every year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ford<\/a> is probably the next largest producer of light commercial vehicles in the UK, with many Transit models continuing to be made at its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/southampton\">Southampton<\/a> plant, despite the fact that some Transit models are now made in Turkey. Both Transit and Vivaro have always been popular choices with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">van hire<\/a> companies and this trend looks set to continue, with the latest Transit update <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vansa2z.com\/Ford-Transit-2011-European-Launch\" target=\"_blank\">receiving excellent reviews<\/a> and a new model Vivaro due\u00a0to go into production in less than two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vauxhall produces 60% of all commercial vehicles built in the UK &#8211; and 57% of these are Vivaro vans, made at the company&#8217;s Luton plant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[123,386,548,1297,18,34,119,1288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802"}],"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=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}