{"id":6397,"date":"2014-07-07T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=6397"},"modified":"2014-07-07T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:42:08","slug":"van-registrations-top-1000-per-day-in-june-monthly-total-up-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6397","title":{"rendered":"Van registrations top 1,000 per day in June — monthly total up 33%"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 1,000 new vans were registered every day in June, according to the latest figures from the SMMT, leaving new registrations up by 33% on the same period last year, at 30,712.<\/p>\n

June’s strong performance means that year-to-date van registrations are up\u00a0by nearly 17% on last year, while rolling year registrations (the last twelve months compared the preceding twelve months) are up by 16%, continuing the strong\u00a0growth seen already this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Van and truck registrations rolling year January 2010 – June 2014. Vans are the dark blue line ( graph courtesy of SMMT)<\/p><\/div>\n

Mike Hawes, the\u00a0SMMT chief executive, says that the van market has outperformed expectations so far this year:<\/p>\n

“The van market has shown another strong performance in June, yielding higher-than-expected growth for the year so far. This has helped the total commercial vehicle market achieve half-year growth of more than 11%, despite a somewhat depressed truck sector.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Truck sales had their day in the sun last year, ahead of the introduction of Euro 6 legislation, but dealers have paid the price this year, with sales down by 23%\u00a0so far this year compared to the first six months of 2013.<\/p>\n

Which vans are\u00a0selling?<\/h3>\n

Drilling down further into the van results, it seems that sales are strongest in the 2.0t – 2.5t and 2.5t – 3.5t sectors,\u00a0which include models such as the Ford Transit Connect,\u00a0Ford Transit Custom\u00a0and Mercedes-Benz Sprinter — traditional fleet workhorses.<\/p>\n

Registrations\u00a0of vans between 2.0t and 2.5t have risen by 36.9% to 27,011 so far this year, while sales of larger models (2.5t – 3.5t) have risen by 19.4%, to 87,598 units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New van registrations rose to more than 1,000 per day in June, according to the latest figures from the SMMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[310,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397"}],"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=6397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6401,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions\/6401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}