{"id":3086,"date":"2012-03-21T06:15:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T06:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2012-03-20T19:36:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T19:36:15","slug":"transit-sprinter-score-five-times-at-vansa2z-awards-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3086","title":{"rendered":"Transit & Sprinter Score Five Times At VansA2Z Awards 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter was chosen as Best Large Panel Van and Best 4x4 Panel Van at the VansA2Z.com Awards 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

The VansA2Z.com annual awards are a chance for the van industry to see what one of the UK’s leading van news publications thinks of its products.<\/p>\n

We’ve already seen that the Renault Kangoo Van Z.E. collected the electric van award<\/a>, but who were the other big winners on awards night at Twickenham<\/a> Stadium??<\/p>\n

Transit Wins Overall<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ford Transit won the Van of the Year award. The decision is no surprise –\u00a0\u00a0VansA2Z.com raved about<\/a> the latest Euro 5 incarnation of the Transit when they drove it at the European launch.<\/p>\n

The Transit also collected the Best Small Van and Best Minibus awards, while Ford’s Fiesta Van was Highly Commended in the Small Van category, its second recent award mention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new Ford Ranger was chosen as the Best Pick-Up, rounding off a superb evening for the boys from Brentwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sprinter Takes Two<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Mercedes team didn’t go back to Milton Keynes<\/a> empty handed, either. The Sprinter earned two awards, thanks to its selection as Best Large Panel Van and Best 4×4 Panel Van.<\/p>\n

VansA2Z Editor, Neil McIntee said:<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year\u2019s winner, the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, retains its Large Panel Van of the Year crown. The van is beautifully put together and is available in a huge array of configurations and multiple wheelbases with load volumes going up to 17.0m3<\/sup>. There is also a wide selection of chassis cab variants ready and waiting to have appropriate bodywork fitted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have also had the opportunity to test the Sprinter 4×4 in some very demanding conditions and were quite amazed by how proficient the system is in action; even on normal road tyres \u2013 well done to Mercedes-Benz!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The VansA2Z.com awards saw the Transit take home a hat trick of awards, including overall van of the year, while the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter scored twice, in the Best Large Panel Van and Best 4×4 Panel Van categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[547,1404,1403,49,1405,809,1391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086"}],"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=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}