{"id":5808,"date":"2014-02-04T17:23:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5808"},"modified":"2014-02-04T17:23:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:23:27","slug":"first-pics-new-renault-trafic-vauxhall-vivaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5808","title":{"rendered":"First Pics: New Renault Trafic &#038; Vauxhall Vivaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer will see the long-awaited replacement for the Vauxhall Vivaro hit the UK&#8217;s roads. Naturally, this will also mean a brand-new Renault Trafic, as the two manufacturers have been long-time collaborators in the light commercial vehicle market.<\/p>\n<p>Today saw both companies release teaser illustrations showing what the new van will look like, which I&#8217;ve reproduced below. My first impression is how similar the new Trafic\/Vivaro looks to the Ford Transit Custom, but I&#8217;m sure that it will have its own character &#8212; past and current model Vivaros have always been quite distinct in look and feel from the Transit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5809\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5809\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5809\" alt=\"The all-new Vauxhall Vivaro.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/vauxhall-vivaro-new14-sm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/vauxhall-vivaro-new14-sm.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/vauxhall-vivaro-new14-sm-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The all-new Vauxhall Vivaro will go on sale in summer 2014.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5810\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5810\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5810\" alt=\"The all-new Renault Trafic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/renault-trafic-new14-sm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/renault-trafic-new14-sm.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/renault-trafic-new14-sm-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The all-new Renault Trafic (based on the same vehicle) will also go on sale this summer.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Both companies say that the new vans will bring car-like sophistication, more efficient engines and new technology to the LCV sector, as you&#8217;d expect.<\/p>\n<p>The new Vivaro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5765\">will be built at Luton<\/a>, like the outgoing model, and I suspect we won&#8217;t have to wait more than another month or two for a more detailed and photographic unveiling of the new model &#8212; watch this space for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vauxhall and Renault have released the first illustrations showing what the new Trafic \/ Vivaro medium van will look like when it goes on sale in summer 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[121,582,119,1288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808"}],"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=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5811,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions\/5811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}