{"id":7220,"date":"2015-03-05T15:06:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T15:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2015-03-05T15:06:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T15:06:31","slug":"new-van-registrations-up-20-2-so-far-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7220","title":{"rendered":"New van registrations up 20.2% so far in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

New van and truck sales continued<\/a> to rise\u00a0during\u00a0February: new van registrations rose by 17.9% during the month, compared to the same period last year, while truck sales fared better with a 31.7% increase, according to the latest figures\u00a0from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).<\/p>\n

UK van and truck registrations: 2015 and % change on 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nFebruary<\/strong><\/td>\n% change<\/strong><\/td>\nYear-to-date<\/strong><\/td>\n% change<\/strong><\/td>\nRolling year<\/strong><\/td>\n% change<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vans<\/strong><\/td>\n13,832<\/td>\n17.9%<\/td>\n35,881<\/td>\n20.2%<\/td>\n327,714<\/td>\n18.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Trucks<\/strong><\/td>\n2,092<\/td>\n31.7%<\/td>\n4,610<\/td>\n35.3%<\/td>\n42,673<\/td>\n-21.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/strong><\/td>\n15,924<\/td>\n19.5%<\/td>\n40,491<\/td>\n21.7%<\/td>\n370,387<\/td>\n12.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source:\u00a0SMMT (www.smmt.co.uk)<\/em><\/p>\n

Commenting on the figures,\u00a0Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe van market continues to expand, posting a tenth consecutive month of increases as improving confidence among SMEs and consumers takes effect. The growing demand for both vans and trucks has delivered a month of impressive performance for the total commercial vehicle sector once again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To save me a thousand words, here’s a picture showing how truck and van sales have changed since January 2010:<\/p>\n

\"SMMT

Graph courtesy of SMMT<\/p><\/div>\n

As usual, it was the 2.5t to 3.5t category (e.g. Ford Transit, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter) that was driving the majority of sales growth. This is by far the largest section of the van market and\u00a0has accounted for 20,051 of the 35,881 vans registered so far this year. Interestingly, new registrations in this category\u00a0rose by 29.3%\u00a0in February, while sales of smaller vans were broadly flat.<\/p>\n

However, sales of smaller 2.0-2.5t vans (e.g. Citro\u00ebn\u00a0Berlingo<\/a>) have risen by\u00a040.5% over the last twelve months, so perhaps it was simply a case of no major fleet orders going through in\u00a0February?<\/p>\n

Finally, a word about the used market:\u00a0I’ve written at length\u00a0about my view of how the rise in new sales are beginning to\u00a0impact the used van market<\/a>, and\u00a0that’s a subject I’ll revisit later this month, when we get the\u00a0latest auction sales figures from BCA and Manheim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New van registrations rose by 17.9% in February and are up by 20.2% so far in 2015, 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":[310,1885],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220"}],"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=7220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7222,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions\/7222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}