{"id":46,"date":"2008-01-09T12:19:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T11:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/46"},"modified":"2008-01-10T14:28:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T13:28:03","slug":"vauxhall-vans-increase-market-share-with-uk-built-vans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/46","title":{"rendered":"Vauxhall Vans Increase Market Share with UK-Built Vans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/2.jpg\" title=\"Vauxhall Vivaro, Renault Trafic or Nissan Primastar white panel van\"><\/a><img align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Vauxhall Vivaro, Renault Trafic or Nissan Primastar white panel van\" \/>While Vauxhall and parent company GM have always had a strong presence in the fleet market &#8211; their retail success has been slightly less consistent, at least in the van market. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/2.jpg\" title=\"Vauxhall Vivaro, Renault Trafic or Nissan Primastar white panel van\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems that the market-leading Vauxhall Vivaro (also Renault Trafic and Nissan Primastar) have put<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/2.jpg\" title=\"Vauxhall Vivaro, Renault Trafic or Nissan Primastar white panel van\"><\/a> paid to that weakness, however. 2007 saw Vauxhall sell more than 30,000 UK-built vans to British buyers &#8211; of which more than 18,000 were Luton-made Vivaros.<\/p>\n<p>Vauxhall&#8217;s overall share of the van market was up 1.1% to 15.7%, with its share of the retail market reached 12.2% &#8211; translating to an impressive 13,323 vans sold to non-fleet buyers &#8211; typically small businesses and tradesmen.<\/p>\n<p>2007 saw Vauxhall&#8217;s 500,000th Vivaro roll off their Luton production line and the company remains the UK&#8217;s largest producer of commercial vehicles, producing more than 100,000 light commerical vehicles in the UK every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vauxhall&#8217;s overall share of the van market was up 1.1% to 15.7%, with its share of the retail market reached 12.2% &#8211; translating to an impressive 13,323 vans sold to non-fleet buyers &#8211; typically small businesses and tradesmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}