{"id":9624,"date":"2017-02-07T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=9624"},"modified":"2017-02-07T14:49:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:49:46","slug":"van-registrations-boosted-by-pickup-sales-in-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/9624","title":{"rendered":"Van registrations boosted by pickup sales in January 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for new vans remained solid in January,\u00a0according to the Society of Motor\u00a0Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The trade body&#8217;s latest figures show that van registrations rose by 1.2% to 21,363 in January 2017.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9627\" style=\"width: 607px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9627\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/smmt-lcv-reg-0111-0117-sm.jpg\" alt=\"UK van registrations Jan 2011 - Jan 2017\" width=\"597\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/smmt-lcv-reg-0111-0117-sm.jpg 597w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/smmt-lcv-reg-0111-0117-sm-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/smmt-lcv-reg-0111-0117-sm-50x37.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK van registrations Jan 2011 &#8211; Jan 2017 (source: SMMT)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A closer look at the figureA closer look at the figures shows that this growth was concentrated\u00a0at the top end of the van market. There was an increase of 5.6% in the number of vans between 2.5t and 3.5t hitting the road in\u00a0January, compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller vans appear out of favour. Registrations of sub-2.0t models fell by 16%, perhaps because\u00a0there are increasingly few such models to choose from, while 2.0-2.5t units rose by just 3.1%.<\/p>\n<h2>January&#8217;s top sellers<\/h2>\n<p>One thing that doesn&#8217;t change is the top seller list.<\/p>\n<p>Ford continued to wipe the floor with its competitors in January. The blue oval\u00a0bagged the top three places in the best seller table, leaving rivals such as Vauxhall, Renault and Mercedes-Benz lagging seriously behind:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9626\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9626\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/smmt-jan17-bestsellers-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Best sellers LCV &lt; 3.5t Jan '17\" width=\"534\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/smmt-jan17-bestsellers-sm.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/smmt-jan17-bestsellers-sm-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/smmt-jan17-bestsellers-sm-50x25.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LCV best sellers in January 2017 (source: SMMT)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK LCV registrations rose by eked out a 1.2% increase in January 2017, with 21,363 new vans and pickups hitting the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9627,"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\/9624"}],"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=9624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9630,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions\/9630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}