{"id":8122,"date":"2015-12-09T17:11:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T17:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=8122"},"modified":"2015-12-09T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T17:14:13","slug":"how-many-manufacturers-are-happy-to-boast-about-their-18-year-old-vans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/8122","title":{"rendered":"How many manufacturers are happy to boast about their 18-year old vans?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You don’t often see a vehicle manufacturer boasting about the quality of one of their 18-year old vehicles. Yet that’s exactly what Mercedes-Benz did recently, when the firm’s press team decided to feature a company’s 18-year old car transporter alongside two of its new Mercedes vans.<\/p>\n

Father and son Mike and Rod Burrows operate Duckworths Salvage & Spares of Truro, in Cornwall. The pair recently treated themselves to two new vans, a Vito Sport Dualiner for son Rod and a long-bodied Citan Sport for his Dad.<\/p>\n

\"Duckworths<\/p>\n

One van they haven’t replaced is their 18-year old 3.5t Sprinter-based car transporter:<\/p>\n

\"Duckworths<\/p>\n

This workhorse is still going strong, says Rod Burrows:<\/p>\n

\u201cOur previous Mercedes-Benz Vans have been excellent \u2013 the Sprinter transporter was brand new when we bought it 1997 and it still has plenty of life left in it yet.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The incredible<\/a> loyalty<\/a> shown<\/a> towards Sprinters by a wide range of van operators is something I’ve often commented on before, but this is probably the oldest van I’ve ever seen in a manufacturer’s press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not often you find a vehicle manufacturer flagging up the benefits of an 18-year old van in an official press release!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1324,157,855],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122"}],"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=8122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8127,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions\/8127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}