{"id":4666,"date":"2013-05-17T13:52:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2013-05-17T13:52:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:52:38","slug":"mercedes-benz-citan-scoops-honestjohn-co-uk-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4666","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz Citan Scoops HonestJohn.co.uk Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4667\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4667\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4667\" alt=\"Mercedes-Benz Citan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mercedes-citan-9-sm.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mercedes-citan-9-sm.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mercedes-citan-9-sm-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mercedes-Benz Citan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3699\">Mercedes-Benz Citan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/info.php?inforef=small-van\">small van<\/a> has won its first award, the <a href=\"http:\/\/vans.honestjohn.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">honestjohn.co.uk<\/a> Most Popular Van award, at the website&#8217;s 2013 awards ceremony, which took place in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/london\">London<\/a> recently.<\/p>\n<p>The Citan went on sale in March, and Dan Harrison, who is the editor of honestjohn.co.uk, says that the website&#8217;s review of the new Citan has been the most popular van review it has published so far:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The review which has stood head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to our users is the new Citan.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first ever small van from Mercedes-Benz and it feels a cut above the competition in terms of quality and refinement.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Citan is based on the current Renault Kangoo, and is built by Renault in the same factory in France.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is trimmed and specified to Mercedes&#8217; levels, it has disappointed in one area where Mercedes cars and commercial vehicles usually excel &#8212; safety. As I reported in April, the Citan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4557\">only managed a three-star Euro NCAP crash test score<\/a> when the MPV variant was tested earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mercedes-Benz Citan has won the honestjohn.co.uk Most Popular Van Award for 2013, just weeks after its UK launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1324,1711,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666"}],"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=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}