{"id":37,"date":"2007-11-29T16:47:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T15:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/37"},"modified":"2007-11-29T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T16:16:26","slug":"best-value-used-van-buys-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/37","title":{"rendered":"Best Value Used Van Buys Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to used vans, there&#8217;s probably no one that knows the market better than British Car Auctions (BCA). BCA auctions thousands of used vans every year &#8211; meaning that it has a very good idea of the level of demand for each type of van.<img src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ford-transit-connect.jpg\" title=\"Ford Transit Connect SWB\" alt=\"Ford Transit Connect SWB\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnn.co.uk\/IndustryNews\/plonearticle.2007-11-27.1257097645\" target=\"_blank\">Transport News article<\/a>, Ford Transits are still one of the very biggest sellers in the used marketplace. Available in a vast array of sizes, shapes and payloads, the Transit offers a truly flexible van platform, combined with the reliability and value traditionally associated with the Ford marque.<\/p>\n<p>Other popular choices in the van sector include Mercedes Sprinters and Vitos &#8211; favoured by <img src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mercedes-sprinter-xlwb.jpg\" title=\"Mercedes Sprinter XLWB\" alt=\"Mercedes Sprinter XLWB\" align=\"left\" \/>couriers for their reliability and by all buyers for their quality and &#8220;rock solid residuals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>At the small end of the market, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/25\">I&#8217;ve written before<\/a> about the outstanding success of the Peugeot Partner\/Citroen Berlingo and good examples of these continue to sell well.<\/p>\n<p>Other strong contenders are the Renault Trafic\/Vauxhall Vivaro and Fiat Scudo, Peugeot Expert or Citroen Dispatch  &#8211; all of which share useful load capacity with refined, car-like driving qualities. This combination has made them very popular with self-employed van operators who may also use their vans for private use.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the van hire companies know all this too &#8211; and you will find that the vast majority of hire vans fall into BCA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnn.co.uk\/IndustryNews\/plonearticle.2007-11-27.1257097645\" target=\"_blank\">best-selling list<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to used vans, there&#8217;s probably no one that knows the market better than British Car Auctions (BCA). BCA auctions thousands of used vans every year &#8211; meaning that it has a very good idea of the level of demand for each type of van.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}