{"id":5708,"date":"2014-01-06T15:39:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2014-01-06T15:39:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:39:30","slug":"skys-the-limit-as-vw-receives-order-for-930-caddy-vans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5708","title":{"rendered":"Sky’s The Limit As VW Receives Order For 930 Caddy Vans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VolkswagenVolkswagen Commercial Vehicles has strengthened its relationship with Sky in a deal that will see the van manufacturer supply an additional 1,120 vehicles to the broadcaster\u2019s fleet.<\/p>\n

The agreement is for 930 Caddy Maxi Startline BlueMotion Technology (BMT) and 190 Transporter Startline BMT vehicles.\u00a0 The vehicles, which will start to be delivered later this month, will boost Sky\u2019s Volkswagen fleet to 2,500.<\/p>\n

With more than 10 million TV and broadband customers across the country and thousands of Sky engineer home visits a day, the well-known Sky liveried Volkswagen vans have become a regular sight on British roads.<\/p>\n

Operational benefits for Sky include class-leading residual values, and a range of frugal, fuel-efficient engines that emit low levels of CO2<\/sub>, helping to save on fuel costs and reduce the fleet’s impact on the environment.<\/p>\n

Other reasons why the Sky team selected the Volkswagen Caddy Maxi include its generous load area \u2013 4.2 m\u00b3 and a load length of 2.25 m \u2013 and high level of standard equipment, while the Transporter was also selected for its practicality and impressive fuel consumption.\u00a0Sky was previously a\u00a0notable fleet customer for Vauxhall’s Vivaro van<\/a>, but judging from this order, the firm may be moving away from the due-for-replacement Vivaro towards the VW Transporter, for its UK fleet.<\/p>\n

All of the new vehicles, which will start to arrive from later this month, have had racking installed and will be wrapped in Sky\u2019s livery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sky has extended its relationship with Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles with an order for 1,120 Caddy and Transporter vans for its UK fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1211,1016,1723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708"}],"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=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5710,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}