{"id":4868,"date":"2013-07-05T16:21:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T16:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2013-07-05T16:49:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T16:49:48","slug":"3807-miles-in-a-mercedes-benz-citan-6-tanks-of-diesel-14-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4868","title":{"rendered":"3,807 Miles In A Mercedes-Benz Citan: 6 Tanks of Diesel &#038; 14 Takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4869\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4869\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4869\" alt=\"Mercedes-Benz Citan at Mercedes Brentford\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mercedes-citan-10-sm.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mercedes-citan-10-sm.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mercedes-citan-10-sm-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mercedes-Benz Citan at Mercedes&#8217; Brentford dealership.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Mercedes-Benz Citan and two drivers have completed a mission to visit every Mercedes-Benz dealer in the UK. The 3,807 miles journey took nine days and included locations from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/aberdeen\">Aberdeen<\/a> to \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/truro\">Truro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Mercedes&#8217; commercial vehicle dealer network includes 98 locations in the UK, it was quite a trip. Amongst the locations visited were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/london-brentford\">Brentford<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/norwich\">Norwich<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/southampton\">Southampton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/stoke-on-trent\">Stoke-on-Trent<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/warrington\">Warrington<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/york\">York<\/a>, as well as the two most far flung dealerships in Aberdeen and Truro.<\/p>\n<p>Many of Mercedes&#8217; commercial dealers are open 24 hours a day, to allow out of hours servicing and repairs, and to demonstrate that good service never sleeps, a staff member at each dealer signed the bonnet of the Citan as it made its way around the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Citan managed to complete the trip using a modest six tanks of diesel, its occupants had larger appetites and consumed\u00a0eight packets of biscuits,14 takeaways, 16 sandwiches, 18 cups of coffee and 21 bottles of water along the way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The new Mercedes Citan, which is now available to order, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4666\">recently won the HonestJohn.co.uk Most Popular Van Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz sent a Citan and two drivers to visit every Mercedes commercial vehicle dealer in the UK, a tour that covered 3.807 miles and involved 98 dealer stops and six tanks of diesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1324,1738],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868"}],"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=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4881,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}