{"id":7314,"date":"2015-04-08T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7314"},"modified":"2015-04-08T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:33:00","slug":"van-demand-soars-as-registrations-climb-23-6-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7314","title":{"rendered":"Van demand soars as registrations climb 23.6% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"

New van registrations have continued the upward trend<\/a> seen for a number of months, rising by 23.6% during March, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).<\/p>\n

Van registrations have risen by 22.3% so far this year, compared to the same period last year, while truck registrations have overcome their Euro 6-induced slump and are up by 41% so far in 2015.<\/p>\n

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

“Demand for commercial vehicles remains buoyant in 2015, with both vans and trucks achieving a strong first quarter performance yet again.\u00a0This continued upturn, and the third month of consecutive growth, can be attributed to higher levels of consumer and business confidence.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As in previous months, rising van registrations are being driven by sales of larger vans, with gross weights between 2t and 3.5t:<\/p>\n

\"SMMT

March light commercial vehicle registrations:<\/p><\/div>\n

However, I’m not sure this trend is as informative as the SMMT suggests: there are very few sub-2t van models, anymore. Even some variants of so-called ‘small’ vans, like the Citroen Berlingo, now weigh more than 2t,\u00a0meaning that the number of vans sales in the 2t category is naturally dwindling.<\/p>\n

In fact, the fastest growing van segment in March was the sub-2t category, where registrations\u00a0rose by 24.6% to 8,353 units. However, running close behind was the 2.5-3.5t segment, where registrations\u00a0rose by 23.8% to a whopping 34,007 units — large vans are the highest volume area of the LCV market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New van registrations rose by 23% in March, 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":[1885],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314"}],"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=7314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7316,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314\/revisions\/7316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}