Archive for December, 2010
Friday, December 17th, 2010
Bristish Car Auctions has told us that the levels of interest in 4×4 pick ups sold at it’s network of auction sites acrosshas shot up. T company puts this down to the winter weather getting worse and worse. If you live in the sticks, chances are you will have to have a four wheel drive.
BCA’s Tim Naylor comments: “As the temperature drops, we have seen 4×4 values rise quite sharply. Values for some models climbed by around 5% in November, compared to similar vehicles bought in the previous month.”
“However, even accounting for the rising prices following the early onset of winter, buyers should still be able to find a good deal on a 4×4 at auction.”
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
The Fiat Ducato has won the ‘Which’ award for base vehicles for the fifth time. Popular amongst converters and drivers, the introduction of Fiat’s automatic gearbox, called the Comfort-Matic helped to sway the judges votes. The choice of the three litre engine gives the Ducato the power it needs to carry the heavy conversions across the most demanding terrain.
Fiat leads the market for base vehicles for conversion tot the campervan industry. “We are delighted that the award-winning Ducato continues to be recognised as the best base vehicle in one of the most important industry awards around,” says Gerry Clarke, director, Fiat Professional UK. “The Ducato range keeps on proving it is first choice among motorhome users, and I’m pleased that these awards have again highlighted the advantages of the new Comfort-Matic gearbox.”
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
In addition to a standard fleet order of more than 340 Transit vans, British gas has added sixty four wheel drive versions of the popular panel van to the fleet – no doubt thanks to the shocking weather we have been experiencing.
This means that BG will now be operating more than 1,000 Ford Transits, working right the way across Britain and be able to get out to stranded residents even in the worst of conditions.
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
After brining the Enterprise range to the Citroen Commercial vehicle lineup with added extras fitted as standard, Citroen went on to standardise the fitment of the Trafficmaster Satnav system across their panel vans the Berlingo, Dispatch and Relay. The remainder of the range can get access to the excellent traffic avoidance and stolen vehicle tracking system at a discounted price.
To top off the year, the company has ended up with registrations 15% higher than in 2009 and a cabinet full of awards.
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
There are now nearly 150 Citroen Berlingos advertised for sale at vanlocator.co.uk – a record for the site. Add to this plenty of Citroen Berlingo First vans and the average Joe looking for a new or used Berlingo, one of the most popular vans of its size in the UK, then it will come as no surprise that there are rgeat deals to be found – especially at this time of year, when there are plenty of used vans in the market and not many buyers.
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Monday, December 13th, 2010
The changes to the revised Corsa, including a mild facelift will be included in the Corsavan.
Available in the first quarter of this year, the revised Corsavan will be offered in two trim levels – Standard and Sportive and will get an all new front end fincluding a new grille with Vauxhall’s new badge. It also gets a re-styled front bumper and eagle-eye headlamps. It will be near identical to the car with new colours and interior treatment. The 1.3CDTI ecoFlex model currently has CO2 emissions of 105g/km.
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles believe that their new Transporter Rockton – first seen at this year’s show in Hanover – is the answer to forestry workers, builders and others who need to tackle tricky terrain.
The Rockton is based on a standard Volkswagen Transporter Kombi but comes with a four wheel drive system, unlike the Citroen Dispatch XTR+ which uses a traction control system on their two wheel drive system.
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
A huge 750-vehicle order for the Renault Kangoo has been placed by Unipart Automotive to operate its car parts service.
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
2010 saw the facelift of the Renault Trafic – called the phase 3. Prices start at £16,400 and increase to £21,650 for panel van versions, with crew vans demanding an £800 premium.
There are now a massive 42 different versions in the Renault Trafic range, low and short, low and long, high and short and high and long – giving a choice of load areas from 5m³ to 8.36m³.
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Renault and Vauxhall have agreed to continue making their joint vans, the Trafic/Vivaro and are working together on the next version of the successful van.
The cooperation started back in 1996 – in 2010 we saw the latest facelift for the van range – for the first time including rear wheel drive variants.
The renewed agreement covers [...]
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