{"id":513,"date":"2008-12-17T16:51:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2008-12-15T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:54:20","slug":"what-van-awards-the-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/513","title":{"rendered":"What Van? Awards – The Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recent What Van? Awards<\/a> provided an opportunity for the best light commercial vehicles available in the UK to be recognised and celebrated.<\/p>\n

So who came out on top? Here are some of the highlights.<\/p>\n

Overall ‘Van of the Year’ award went to the all-new, big-but-small, Citroen Nemo\/Fiat Fiorino\/Citroen Bipper<\/a>. Made by the PSA conglomerate, these are all the same van, just badged differently.<\/p>\n

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Citroen Nemo van<\/p><\/div>\n

Category winners included Ford, who gained the Security award in both the Light Van (Ford Transit Connect) and Panel Van (Ford Transit) categories.<\/p>\n

Iveco was given the Large Van award for the new Daily van – pipping Mercedes’ Sprinter to the post in what must have been a close competition.<\/p>\n

Vauxhall won the coveted small van award with the Corsavan, the latest in a long line of popular car-derived vans from Vauxhall, who seem to have the knack of turning a small or medium sized car into a thoroughly enjoyable (to drive) van:<\/p>\n

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Vauxhall Corsavan (\u00a9 GM Corp.)<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, the rapidly growing market for buying chassis vans with bodies – as opposed to sourcing the body seperately – is worth a mention.<\/p>\n

Citroen won the ‘One Stop Shop’ award with its ‘Ready To Run’ range, some of which are pictured below:<\/p>\n

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Citroen Relay Ready to Run models<\/p><\/div>\n

Ford were the runners-up in this category, as they were also in the small panel van category – with the ubiquitous Ford Transit, now in its 7th generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The What Van? awards provided an opportunity for the latest and greatest in the UK light commercial vehicle market to be recognised. We’ve got the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[547,284,193,366,49,368,546],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}