{"id":579,"date":"2009-01-14T16:15:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T16:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2009-01-14T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T09:42:43","slug":"van-manufacturers-desert-2009-cv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/579","title":{"rendered":"Van Manufacturers Desert 2009 CV Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Commercial Vehicle Show at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/Birmingham\" target=\"_self\">Birmingham<\/a> NEC is likely to be a shadow of its former self, with almost every commerical vehicle manufacturer having withdrawn or declined to exhibit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleetnews.co.uk\/news\/story\/CV-Show-goes-ahead-despite-lack-of-manufacturer-support\/49145\" target=\"_blank\">According to Fleet News<\/a>, Volkswagen, Mercedes, Citroen, Isuzu and Vauxhall have all confirmed that they will not be exhibiting, as have lorry manufacturers Iveco Truck, Volvo, DAF and Scania.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few companies still to confirm &#8211; by my reckoning the biggest of these in van terms are Ford and then LDV.<\/p>\n<p>The CV Show&#8217;s organisers are keen to stress that they still have more than 300 exhibitors signed up and the show will be what it always has been &#8211; a transport engineering show.<\/p>\n<p>With (almost) no vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>To contrast this to last year&#8217;s show, take a look at my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/123\" target=\"_self\">write-ups<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/134\" target=\"_self\">from then<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Commercial Vehicle Show at the Birmingham NEC is going to be much smaller than last year&#8217;s &#8211; most vand and lorry manufacturers are not exhibiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[195,194,233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579"}],"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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}