{"id":2807,"date":"2012-01-25T12:03:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T12:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2017-06-23T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T09:42:26","slug":"citroen-berlingo-wins-itm-best-lcv-2012-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2807","title":{"rendered":"Citroen Berlingo Wins ITM ‘Best LCV 2012’ Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CitroenThe Citroen<\/a> Berlingo has won the Institute of Transport Management’s<\/a> ‘Best LCV [Light Commercial Vehicle] 2012’ award.<\/p>\n

The ITM’s criteria for the award said that the winner had to \u201cembody perennially important qualities such as reliability, cost-effectiveness and durability.”<\/p>\n

The ITM judges were particularly impressed by the Berlingo’s environmental credentials:<\/p>\n

\u201cBusinesses are looking for LCVs that are lighter, with lower emissions and better fuel efficiency, qualities that the Citro\u00ebn Berlingo range has in spades. \u00a0In particular, the Citro\u00ebn Berlingo e-HDI Airdream* models are equipped with e-HDi micro-hybrid Stop & Start technology.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition, they also noted that the Berlingo “has all the equipment and space of a light commercial van” but “drives like a car”. It is the latest in a series of awards for the current Berlingo model<\/a>, which has now been updated to include a range of Euro 5 engines and is also available as a chassis cab with Citroen’s Ready To Run body conversions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Citroen Berlingo is a popular choice with van rental<\/a> companies in the small van category<\/a> and has also been very successful with fleets.<\/p>\n

*Citroen’s Airdream system is a combined regenerative power and start-stop system that is available on selected van models. Berlingo Airdream vans have Stop & Start with an advanced micro-hybrid starter\/generator to restart the engine quickly and smoothly and incorporate regenerative braking to recover and store energy that would otherwise be lost.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Euro Citroen Berlingo has one the ITM’s ‘Best LCV 2012’ award for its combination of practicality, comfort and low emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1300,190,120,496,1299,1298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807"}],"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=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9963,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/9963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}