{"id":9874,"date":"2017-05-24T14:15:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T14:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=9874"},"modified":"2017-05-24T14:15:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T14:15:11","slug":"falling-age-and-mileage-drive-used-van-prices-higher-manheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/9874","title":{"rendered":"Falling age and mileage drive used van prices higher &#8211; Manheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9810\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9810\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the-spy-van-1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the-spy-van-1-sm.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the-spy-van-1-sm-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the-spy-van-1-sm-624x564.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the-spy-van-1-sm-50x45.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Spy Van is a former HMRC undercover vehicle. Fitted with a range of high-tech kit (see below) it&#8217;s been restored by Manheim LCV expert James Davis and went under the hammer to raise funds for Alzheimers Society on 22 May 2017.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Used vans sold\u00a0by Manheim auctions in April fetched an average of \u00a35,154 &#8212; a whopping 13.8% more than during the same month last year, according to the latest figures from the auction group.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for buyers, the increase was largely due to\u00a0a significant fall in age and mileage, rather than a boom in demand.\u00a0The average age\u00a0among vans sold in April was 63 months, versus 70 in April 2016. Similarly, average mileage fell by more than 10,000 miles to 74,731.<\/p>\n<p>The company says that among the most popular models were\u00a0Ford Transt 280 SWB models and high spec Ford Transit Custom vans.\u00a0Long and extra-long wheelbase Sprinters were in demand, as were top spec VW Transporter models.<\/p>\n<p>Less popular were\u00a0base spec Transporters, older Transits, big\u00a0Citroen and Peugeot vans and &#8212; perhaps\u00a0unsurprisingly as we head into summer &#8212; several\u00a0of the leading pickup models.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it\u00a0remains confident about buyer demand\u00a0heading into the summer, despite April bringing\u00a0<em>&#8220;a slightly tougher atmosphere in the commercial vehicle market than we have seen so far this year&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if you&#8217;re wondering what the picture at the top is all about, I&#8217;d like to offer congratulations on behalf of vanrental.co.uk to Manheim&#8217;s James Davis.\u00a0James&#8217; painstakingly restored\u00a0ex-HMRC Spy Van Ford Transit fetched a record \u00a310,300\u00a0auction earlier this week. All proceeds are going to The Alzheimer&#8217;s Society.<\/p>\n<p>You can see photos of the Spy Van in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/9791\">CV Show 2017<\/a> write up, or\u00a0check out James&#8217; Facebook page at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Therestorationvanman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/Therestorationvanman\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manheim reported a sharp rise in used van prices in April, as average mileage and age fell compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1842,1740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874"}],"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=9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9876,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874\/revisions\/9876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}