{"id":3334,"date":"2012-05-21T13:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2012-05-21T13:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:57:04","slug":"van-fleet-world-awards-2012-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3334","title":{"rendered":"Van Fleet World Awards 2012 Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3088\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3088\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3088\" title=\"Mercedes-Benz Sprinter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mercedes-sprinter-ecostart-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Mercedes-Benz Sprinter\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter has won the Van Fleet World Safety Award every year since 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 2012 Van Fleet World Awards took place in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/london\">London<\/a> last week. The winner list contains a mixture of the usual suspects and one or two surprises, so here&#8217;s a quick roundup to bring you up to date:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best New Van:<\/strong> Vauxhall Combo<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Light Van:<\/strong> Citro\u00ebn Nemo \/ Fiat Fiorino \/ Peugeot Bipper<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Small Van:<\/strong> Volkswagen Caddy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Medium Van:<\/strong> Volkswagen Transporter<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Large Van:<\/strong> Ford Transit<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Pick-Up:<\/strong> Ford Ranger<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Light Truck:<\/strong> Iveco Daily<\/li>\n<li><strong>Van Manufacturer of the Year: <\/strong>Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles<\/li>\n<li><strong>Environment Award: <\/strong>Nissan e-NV200<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editor&#8217;s Award:<\/strong>\u00a0Renault Kangoo Van Z.E.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Security Award:\u00a0 <\/strong>Citro\u00ebn LCVs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Safety Award:<\/strong>\u00a0Mercedes-Benz Sprinter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No big surprises, as many of these vans have won other awards over the last year, although it&#8217;s the first award for the Nissan e-NV200, which is not in production yet but has been trialled on-road by big companies including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3322\">BT<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2744\">FedEx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Ford Transit and VW Transporter could both face hot competition later this year when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3232\">new Ford Transit Custom<\/a> hits the roads &#8211; it will initially be built and sold alongside the regular Transit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mixture of familiar faces picked up most of the awards at the 2012 Van Fleet World Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334"}],"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=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}