{"id":7040,"date":"2015-01-23T15:13:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T15:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2015-01-23T15:13:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T15:13:08","slug":"citroen-takes-top-spot-in-business-van-of-the-year-awards-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7040","title":{"rendered":"Citroen takes top spot in Business Van Of The Year Awards 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5468\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5468\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/citroen-berlingo-my2014-1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Updated 2014 Citro\u00ebn Berlingo\" width=\"350\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/citroen-berlingo-my2014-1-sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/citroen-berlingo-my2014-1-sm-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Citroen Berlingo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Citroen Berlingo bagged the top prize at the recent Business Van Of The Year awards,\u00a0thanks to its ubiquitous popularity, durability, generous specification and deceptive\u00a0load-lugging ability.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0model specified by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessvans.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Business Van<\/a> judges was the\u00a0Berlingo HDi 75 manual L1 625 Enterprise &#8212; broadly speaking an entry level standard wheelbase model that&#8217;s probably the most popular choice among Berlingo buyers.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a run-down of all\u00a0the\u00a0winners from this year&#8217;s awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Van of the Year: Citroen\u00a0Berlingo HDi 75 manual L1 625 Enterprise<\/li>\n<li>Best Small Trades Van:\u00a0Citroen\u00a0Berlingo HDi 75 manual L1 625 Enterprise<\/li>\n<li>Best Large Trades Van: Vauxhall Vivaro 1.6CDTi 16v bi-turbo 120bhp L1H1 Sportive<\/li>\n<li>Best Heavy Panel Van: Citroen Relay 35 L3 H2 130bhp Enterprise<\/li>\n<li>Best Crew Van: Volksagen Transporter Kombi T30 Highline 180<\/li>\n<li>Best City Van: Fiat Fiorino Cargo 1.3 MultiJet 75 Tecnico Start Stop<\/li>\n<li>Best Local Delivery Van: Volkswagen Caddy 1.6TDI Highline 102PS C20<\/li>\n<li>Best Green Van: Nissan e-NV200\u00a0Electric<\/li>\n<li>Best Double Cab: Volkswagen Amarok 2.0 Trendline 180PS 4Motion<\/li>\n<li>Best Utility Pick-Up: Volkswagen Amarok 2.0 Trendline 180PS 4Motion<\/li>\n<li>Best Servicing Package: Volkswagen<\/li>\n<li>Best Financing Package: Volkswagen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In terms of numbers,\u00a0Volkswagen pipped Citroen to the post, with the German marque taking six awards compared to the French firm&#8217;s three. However,\u00a0perhaps the most remarkable exclusion was Ford &#8212; this must be the first time for a couple\u00a0of years that Ford has managed to avoid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6936\">winning anything<\/a> at\u00a0an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6006\">industry<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6434\">awards ceremony<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen bags six gongs at the Business Van Of The Year Awards 2015, but French rival Citroen takes top spot with the  overall Van Of The Year award.<\/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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040"}],"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=7040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7042,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions\/7042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}