{"id":7051,"date":"2015-01-27T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T12:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7051"},"modified":"2015-01-27T12:02:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T12:02:36","slug":"citroen-polishes-off-competition-with-morelli-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7051","title":{"rendered":"Citro\u00ebn polishes off competition with Morelli order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/morelli-citroen-dispatch-nemo-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Morelli Group Citro\u00ebn vans\" width=\"350\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/morelli-citroen-dispatch-nemo-sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/morelli-citroen-dispatch-nemo-sm-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/morelli-citroen-dispatch-nemo-sm-50x29.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Hot on the heels of\u00a0Citro\u00ebn&#8217;s dominating performance in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7040\">Business Van awards last week<\/a>\u00a0comes news of a new fleet renewal and expansion deal for the firm.<\/p>\n<p>Automotive refinishing products specialist, the Morelli Group, has taken delivery of 15 new\u00a0Citro\u00ebn\u00a0Dispatch L2H1 HDi 125 6-speed manual Enterprise vans.<\/p>\n<p>The new vehicles\u00a0have been ordered to meet growing demand and to replace\u00a0older vans being de-fleeted, and the Enfield-based firm\u00a0will base the new vans at depots throughout the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the Morelli Group fleet are DS and Citro\u00ebn models, totalling 48 Citro\u00ebn vans and 27 cars, and Robert Cohen, the group&#8217;s\u00a0financial director, says\u00a0that this isn&#8217;t a coincidence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe like the way Citro\u00ebn offers its vans with defined trim levels, rather than a large number of options, which makes ordering vehicles easier. Citro\u00ebn\u2019s LCVs are ideal for our intensive, high-mileage operation, providing excellent driver comfort and safety, along with reliability and low cost of operation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 1200kg payload Dispatch L2H1 Enterprise models are powered by an HDi 125 engine, which has excellent combined cycle fuel economy of 44.1mpg and low CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions of just 168g\/km. Standard specification includes air conditioning, rear parking sensors, a Connecting Box (including Bluetooth\u00ae hands free and a USB socket), electrically folding heated door mirrors and a full steel bulkhead. In addition, the Dispatch also comes with Teletrac intelligent satellite navigation and Trackstar stolen vehicle tracking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time Citroen customer the Morelli Group has just added 15 new Dispatch vans to its fleet, confirming the appeal of the French vans to SME customers in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[120,1336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051"}],"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=7051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7053,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions\/7053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}