{"id":3440,"date":"2012-07-06T06:33:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T06:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2012-07-06T06:33:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T06:33:45","slug":"van-news-in-brief-06072012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3440","title":{"rendered":"Van News In Brief: 06\/07\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bicycle deliveries for Europcar, new dealers for Isuzu Truck and and old Mitsubishi favourite returns.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mitsubishi Brings Back L200 Trojan<\/h3>\n
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Mitsubishi L200 Trojan Double Cab<\/p><\/div>\n

The Mitsubishi L200 is probably the car that defines the modern pick-up trend. Hugely popular, its double cab was one of the first to offer car-like levels of comfort with genuine off-road, load-carrying ability.<\/p>\n

Mitsubishi<\/a>\u00a0has capitalised on the popularity of this model with lifestyle buyers by introducing a steady stream of special editions, such as the\u00a0recent Barbarian Black<\/a>. Its now brought back another popular edition, the L200 Trojan Double Cab.<\/p>\n

The Trojan comes loaded with accessories and the new model is far more powerful than the old one, delivering\u00a030% more power (up from 136bhp to 175bhp) and 27% more torque (up from 314Nm to 400Nm). In addition to this, the 12MY Trojan is also Euro 5 compliant.<\/p>\n

Europcar Staff Take To Two Wheels<\/h3>\n

Traffic in London is bad enough at the best of times, but it’s about to get much worse<\/a>, as the London Olympics and Paralympics bring thousands of extra visitors and vehicles to the cities streets.<\/p>\n

In addition, the Olympic Route Network means that ordinary road users, like delivery drivers and private motorists, won’t even be able to use half the roads in London<\/a> (click here<\/a> for a handy Olympic Route Network delivery planner).<\/p>\n

If all of this wasn’t enough, demand for car and van rental is likely to soar during the Olympic period, with many of these customers needing to have vehicles delivered and collected from their premises. This means that rental companies are faced with the prospect of having their delivery drivers stuck in traffic and unable to move around as quickly as usual.<\/p>\n

Europcar has taken a novel approach to solving this problem and is equipping its delivery drivers with electric bikes to help them get around as fast as possible. The bikes are folding models that fit into the boot of a car, enabling drivers to combine the best of both worlds and get around London as fast as possible — without adding to traffic congestion themselves.<\/p>\n

4 New Isuzu Truck Dealers For Thames Valley<\/h3>\n
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The Isuzu Truck range<\/p><\/div>\n

Isuzu Truck has added The Cordwallis Group<\/a> to its dealer roster, providing the brand with four new dealers covering the Thames Valley.<\/p>\n

The long-established, family-owned Cordwallis Group opened its doors as an Isuzu Truck dealer in Reading<\/a> and Heathrow<\/a> on Monday 25th<\/sup> June, whilst the remaining 2 branches at Maidenhead<\/a> and Eynsham near Oxford<\/a> will become full dealers 1 month later on Monday 23rd<\/sup> July.<\/p>\n

As Keith Child, marketing director at Isuzu Truck explains:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Thames Valley region represents a significant geographical area for Isuzu Truck and we are extremely pleased to welcome The Cordwallis Group into the Isuzu Truck dealer network. The group has a vast experience of commercial vehicles from lights to heavy weights through four established locations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Europcar uses bikes to beat London Olympic traffic, Mitsubishi brings back a popular favourite and Isuzu adds 4 new dealers to its expanding Truck network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[63,1478,1499,473,18,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440"}],"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=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3448,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}