{"id":3214,"date":"2012-04-13T15:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T15:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2012-04-13T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T15:26:51","slug":"volkswagen-could-bring-4x4-crafter-to-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3214","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen Could Bring 4&#215;4 Crafter To UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2050\" title=\"Volkswagen Crafter van\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/vw-new-crafter-1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Volkswagen Crafter van\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/>Volkswagen is considering bringing the 4&#215;4 Crafter 4Motion to the UK, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatvan.co.uk\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1392&amp;Itemid=55\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatvan.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">What Van?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex Smith, who recently took over as head of VW&#8217;s UK commercial vehicle operations, told the magazine that while the Crafter would never approach the 20% market share of the Transporter and Caddy, they were looking at options for boosting Crafter sales in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>One possible option was the introduction of the 4&#215;4 Crafter, which would complement VW&#8217;s smaller Caddy 4Motion and Transporter 4Motion, both of which are already available in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is also interested in boosting the market for conversions, especially dropside and tipper models.<\/p>\n<p>However, he ruled out a major expansion of VW&#8217;s daily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">van rental<\/a> sales just to boost numbers, telling the magazine that they were focused on &#8220;profitable, sustainable growth&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen UK is looking at options to boost sales of the Crafter large van, which might include making a 4&#215;4 Crafter 4Motion available in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[826,34,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214"}],"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=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}