{"id":7951,"date":"2015-10-28T13:45:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T13:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7951"},"modified":"2015-10-28T13:47:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T13:47:01","slug":"mercedes-benz-citan-sport-has-all-the-right-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7951","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz Citan Sport has all the right moves"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mercedes-Benz Citan wasn’t an obvious match for Adam Hetherington, who’s a director of Starlight Dance Floors, an Ipswich-based dance floor hire firm.<\/p>\n

Prior to his first drive in a Citan, Mr Hetherington’s view on small vans was that “every small van I’ve ever driven has been rubbish”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

However, a spell driving a Citan while one of his firm’s Sprinters was in for service changed his view, with the result that Mr Hetherington has now added a Citan Sport to his firm’s fleet, which he uses for site visits and customer meetings.<\/p>\n

\"Starlight<\/p>\n

The Citan Sport is based on the long-bodied variant of the small van and is specified to provide a premium feel. Standard features include colour-coded bumpers and door mirrors, daytime driving lights, a chrome front-grille, sidebars and tailgate trim, and 16-inch, multi-spoke alloy wheels.<\/p>\n

Inside, Citan Sport customers enjoy standard air-conditioning and also get a leather-trimmed steering wheel, along with Sports mats and badging.<\/p>\n

Like<\/a> so<\/a> many<\/a> Mercedes owners, Adam Hetherington is a firm fan of the Sprinter:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sprinters have proved exceptionally reliable, which is crucial in our business \u2013 you can\u2019t fail to show up for someone\u2019s wedding \u2013 while at the same time helping to reinforce the image of quality that we have built up over the last five years.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His firm, Starlight Dance Floors, serves a upmarket corporate clients such as the Savoy Hotel as well as private customers planning parties and balls. The 3.5t Sprinters often need to shift a fair amount of kit, but Mr Hetherington says the long-bodied Citan Sport is big enough for smaller hires, freeing up a larger vehicle and cutting transport costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The driver appeal and quality spec of the Citan Sport quickly won over Starlight Dance Floors boss Adam Hetherington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951"}],"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=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7956,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions\/7956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}