{"id":2833,"date":"2012-01-30T06:35:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T06:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2012-01-28T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T12:05:07","slug":"toyota-abandoning-uk-lcv-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2833","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Abandoning UK LCV Market?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2834\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2834\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2834\" title=\"Toyota Hiace\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/toyota-hiace-1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Toyota Hiace\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toyota Hiace panel van - discontinued in the UK from 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2402\">I reported in September<\/a>, Toyota dropped the Hiace panel van from its range at the end of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was due to a lack of Euro 5 engines, but given that Toyota has plenty of Euro 5 diesels in other vehicles, this decision makes you wonder if the real reason was its failure to compete with vans like the VW Transporter.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Hiace benefits from Toyota&#8217;s usual excellent engineering and build quality, the cab lacks the car-like sophistication of the Transporter and even the latest Transit, and it has never been a big seller in the UK market.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota has also announced that it is reducing the range of Dyna models available in the UK in 2012.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2835\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2835\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2835\" title=\"Toyota Dyna with factory tipper body\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/toyota-dyna-tipper-1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Toyota Dyna with factory tipper body\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toyota Dyna - this factory fit tipper body will not longer be available in the UK in 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Dyna is a chassis cab based light truck: although its only available with gross weights from 3.0t &#8211; 3.5t, it is built like a small lorry, rather than a large van. This makes is rugged and ideal for demanding applications, such\u00a0as waste collection and construction use.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota is dropping the short wheelbase variant of the Dyna from its UK model range &#8211; only medium and long wheelbase models will be available and only one ready-bodied conversion will be offered; a long wheelbase dropside.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota&#8217;s primary focus seems to be its popular Hilux 4&#215;4 pick-up. The company has launched an updated model for 2012; an all-new model is expected in 2013\/4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota has discontinued its Hiace panel van and reduced the range of Dyna light truck models available in the UK for 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1150,1307,1151,1308,1955],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833"}],"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=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}