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Ford light commercials are Speedy fleet choice
Equipment rental specialist Speedy has placed an order for 400 Ford LCVs, worth in excess of £8.6m…
2013 used van auction values drop in May
Manheim Remarketing’s latest figures show that average used van values dropped by £78 in May compared to April…
Truckman hardtops bring versatility to fleet
Balfour Beatty has fitted Truckman hardtops to 150 of its fleet of Hilux 4x4 pick-ups…
Transporter features in national VW campaign
Volkswagen is rolling out out a nationwide Transporter billboard ad campaign depicting real owners…
Furmanite renews Citroën van fleet
Plant and pipeline maintenance firm Furmanite is sticking with Citroën to replace its 100-strong van fleet…
New Van Launches
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2013 - First Drive
New 2013 Sprinter is the first van to comply with Euro 6 and safety features are a high priority…
Ford Fiesta Van 2013 - First Drive
Launched at the beginning of 2013, the new Fiesta Van has been restyled inside and out and gets the new 1.5TDCi engine…
Ford Transit Custom - First Drive
Ford’s all-new one-tonne Transit, the Custom, is a very different proposition to its predecessor…
Show Report: CV Show 2012
What a cracking event the 2012 Commercial Vehicle Show turned out to be, thanks in no small part to Ford…
Mitsubishi L200 4x4 Long-Term Test 1
We have just taken delivery of a Mitsubishi L200 4x4 Club Cab for long-term appraisal…
All Van Reviews & Buyers' Guides
Aixam Mega Review & Buyers' Guide
Aixam’s odd-looking Mega Multitruck is busy carving itself a small, but useful niche in the van market…
Allied Electric Review & Buyers' Guide
One of the most interesting businesses active in the UK’s van market at present is Glasgow-based Allied Vehicles. Aside from producing taxi…
Ashwoods Review & Buyers' Guide
Ashwoods started life converting vehicles to run on LPG, and indeed it still does, but it is better known these days for its low-cost low…
Citroën Berlingo Review & Buyers' Guide
The highly successful original Berlingo — still sold as the Berlingo First — was replaced by a completely new model in the summer of 2008…
Citroën Dispatch Review & Buyers' Guide
Upgraded at the end of 2007, Citroën’s Dispatch now offers a much greater breadth of model options. It’s available with a choice of two…
Citroën Nemo Review & Buyers' Guide
This little van created a new category of LCV — the sub compact — when it was introduced in 2008…
Citroën Relay Review & Buyers' Guide
The result of a long-standing joint-development deal between PSA Peugeot Citroën and Fiat. There is a wide selection of van models,…
DFSK Loadhopper Review & Buyers' Guide
A range of microvans and mini trucks from Chinese manufacturer DFSK, including a van, single or double cab dropside pick-up and a three-way…
Fiat Doblò Cargo Review & Buyers' Guide
Fiat has redesigned the Doblò Cargo from top to bottom and it comes with a choice of two wheelbases and three impressive diesel engines…
Fiat Ducato Review & Buyers' Guide
The product of a long-established joint venture between Fiat and PSA Group, Fiat’s Ducato is almost identical to Peugeot’s Boxer and…
Fiat Fiorino Cargo Review & Buyers' Guide
Fiorino Cargo slots in neatly between the car-derived Punto van and the extensive high-cube Doblò Cargo range…
Fiat Punto Review & Buyers' Guide
Current generation Punto Van made its debut at the 2012 Commercial Vehicle Show and replaces the Grande Punto range…
Fiat Scudo Review & Buyers' Guide
With the widely applauded new Doblò Cargo now available, the compact Fiorino winning friends and Ducato and Punto van forming part of the…
Ford Fiesta Review & Buyers' Guide
Latest Fiesta Van gets a re-designed front-end, a restyled cab interior, a new 1.5-litre diesel and dynamically its a triumph…
Ford Ranger Review & Buyers' Guide
A significant advance on its predecessor, Ford’s all-new Ranger pick-up boasts new 2.2- and 3.2-litre Euro 5 Duratorq TDCi diesel engines…
Ford Transit Connect Review & Buyers' Guide
While it won’t win any prizes for styling, there’s no denying that Ford’s Transit Connect is a solidly-built workhorse that’s more than…
Ford Transit Courier Review & Buyers' Guide
Ford is resurrecting the Courier name when a range of small light vans joins the Transit range in 2014…
Ford Transit Custom Review & Buyers' Guide
Ford has really raised the small one-tonne panel van bar in terms of practicality, dynamics and safety with the launch of the front-wheel…
Ford Transit Review & Buyers' Guide
Introduced to the UK market at the end of 2011 the updated Transit, regardless of whether it is front-, rear- or all-wheel drive, is…
Great Wall Steed Review & Buyers' Guide
Great Wall may not be a well known brand in the UK, but it’s a hugely successful manufacturer in its home country of China…
Hyundai iLoad Review & Buyers' Guide
Pity poor Hyundai. It timed its return to the UK van market just as the economy plunged into recession; a recession which had a devastating…
Isuzu D-Max Review & Buyers' Guide
Available as a double, extended and single cab, it has a cracking diesel under the bonnet and tackles the rough stuff with aplomb …
Isuzu Truck Grafter Review & Buyers' Guide
First introduced to the UK in 1993 the N Series-based Grafter 3.5 tonne chassis cab range underwent a major overhaul in 2008 which…
Iveco Daily Review & Buyers' Guide
Revamped at the end of 2011 Daily features a restyled, rather stylish, front-end and a variety of well-judged modifications to the cab…
Land Rover Defender Review & Buyers' Guide
Land Rover’s go-anywhere Defender is a British icon, no question about it; even though the manufacturer is now owned by Indian industrial…
Land Rover Discovery 4 Review & Buyers' Guide
If you’re looking for a class act, then look no further. Settle yourself down behind the wheel of Land Rover’s Discovery 4 Commercial and…
Mercedes-Benz Citan Review & Buyers' Guide
On sale late 2012/early 2013, the Renault Kangoo-based Citan is going to ruffle some feathers in the light van market…
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Review & Buyers' Guide
W hat’s the fastest vehicle on the motorway? A Ferrari or a Porsche driven by a Premier League footballer maybe? Nope. It’s got to be a…
Mercedes-Benz Vito Review & Buyers' Guide
If you want to make a statement about your business and its aspirations, then opting for a van that bears the three-pointed star is not a…
MINI Clubvan Review & Buyers' Guide
Expensive compared to the competition, but makes a style statement, comes loaded with goodies as standard and drives like a dream; great…
Mitsubishi ASX Review & Buyers' Guide
An attractive, solidly-constructed, package that will not disappoint, but a little pricy. Residual values should be strong though.
Mitsubishi Fuso Canter Review & Buyers' Guide
In recent years a new breed of 7.5-tonner has appeared on British roads. Made by manufacturers such as Isuzu Truck and Mitsubishi Fuso,…
Mitsubishi L200 Review & Buyers' Guide
If Mitsubishi’s multi-award-winning L200 4x4 pick-up could be said to have had a fault, it was the length of the load bed. In four-door…
Mitsubishi Outlander Review & Buyers' Guide
New Outlander has smooth exterior styling, an attractive and functional cab interior and a fuel-efficient diesel…
Mitsubishi Shogun Review & Buyers' Guide
If you want a practical, stylish van that will more than hold its own both on- and off-road and will enhance your driveway rather than…
Nissan Cabstar Review & Buyers' Guide
An unglamorous, uncomplaining workhorse, Nissan’s Cabstar has been shouldering the burden for builders, roofers, landscape gardeners and…
Nissan Navara Review & Buyers' Guide
While Mitsubishi’s L200 has been awarded much of the credit for turning the humble workaday pick-up into a must-have style icon a few years…
Nissan NV200 Review & Buyers' Guide
In recent years much of Nissan’s light commercial line-up has consisted of Renaults with different badges on. The Japanese manufacturer has…
Nissan NV400 Review & Buyers' Guide
Previewed at this year's Commercial Vehicle Show, Nissan's replacement for the Interstar range of large panel vans and chassis cabs is due…
Nissan Pathfinder Review & Buyers' Guide
Operators who shed a quiet tear over the demise of the 4x4 Nissan Terrano van should weep no more. Its successor has arrived in the shape…
Nissan Primastar Review & Buyers' Guide
Primastar remains a good package worthy of consideration and the cab interior received a makeover in the summer of 2010…
Peugeot Bipper Review & Buyers' Guide
Anybody looking for a compact, highly manoeuvrable van that’s at home on the mean streets of Britain’s cities could do worse than opt for…
Peugeot Boxer Review & Buyers' Guide
Emanating from a long-standing joint venture between Fiat and the PSA Group, Peugeot and Citroën’s parent company, Peugeot’s Boxer is…
Peugeot Expert Review & Buyers' Guide
While the original Peugeot Expert was up for grabs with just one size of cargo area, its successor boasts a lot more choice.
Peugeot Partner Review & Buyers' Guide
In the same way that certain cars seem destined to get bigger — look at today’s Volkswagen Golf compared with the Golf of 30 years ago, for…
Renault Kangoo Review & Buyers' Guide
Since its launch at the Amsterdam commercial vehicle show back in 2007 the latest version of Renault’s Kangoo has won lots of friends and,…
Renault Master Review & Buyers' Guide
The current generation Master — also sold as the Movano by Vauxhall — is a very different proposition to its predecessor. For starters it…
Renault Trafic Review & Buyers' Guide
Cutting-edge design can go one of two ways. It can either be accepted as a real classic of its kind and be as fresh in ten years time as it…
Renault Trucks Master Review & Buyers' Guide
Renault’s new Master isn’t solely available through the manufacturer’s car and van network or through the Vauxhall network badged as a…
Smith Electric Edison Review & Buyers' Guide
One of the big advantages of Smith’s battery-powered Edison is that it looks so conventional. It doesn’t have the sort of off-the-wall…
SsangYong Korando CSX Review & Buyers' Guide
European specification model was on display at the Geneva Motor Show 2012 and it goes on sale in the UK in October 2012…
SsangYong Korando Sports Review & Buyers' Guide
Surprisingly competent off-road, torquey diesel and independent rear suspension makes it a smooth-rider on-road …
SsangYong Rexton Review & Buyers' Guide
Anybody in search of a four-wheel drive van might be surprised at the suggestion that they should visit their nearest SsangYong dealership.…
Toyota Dyna Review & Buyers' Guide
Perhaps it is a consequence of a lack of promotional effort on Toyota’s part, but the forward-control Dyna is often overlooked by people in…
Toyota Hilux Review & Buyers' Guide
Toyota’s Hilux is one of the world’s few truly global light commercials. Brand-new examples laden with every conceivable extras grace the…
Toyota Proace Review & Buyers' Guide
Toyota returns to the panel van market following the demise of Hiace in 2011 thanks to a deal with PSA Peugeot Citroën…
Vauxhall Astravan Review & Buyers' Guide
On the face of it there’s no real reason for Astravan’s continued existence. With a 1.6m3 cargo area and no sliding side loading doors, the…
Vauxhall Combo Review & Buyers' Guide
What a difference a generation makes. Combo has been transformed into a sophisticated, versatile, multi-model light van contender…
Vauxhall Corsavan Review & Buyers' Guide
It just goes to show that some of the best things come in small packages and they don't come much better than this...
Vauxhall Movano Review & Buyers' Guide
Vauxhall’s all-new Movano has been well worth the wait. With new engines, the availability of both front- and rear-wheel drive and grossing…
Vauxhall Vivaro Review & Buyers' Guide
One of the most remarkable things about Vauxhall’s Vivaro is how well its styling has lasted since its launch at the end of 2001.
Volkswagen Amarok Review & Buyers' Guide
Volkswagen returns to the pick-up market with the Argentinian-built Amarok and it's available solely as a double cab.
Volkswagen Caddy Review & Buyers' Guide
Volkswagen’s Caddy reached its fourth generation landmark in November 2010. The design isn’t that different from the previous models, but…
Volkswagen Crafter Review & Buyers' Guide
Volkswagen’s large panel van contender, the Crafter, received a mid-generational revamp at the end of 2011…
Volkswagen Transporter Review & Buyers' Guide
Volkswagen’s Transporter received a revamp at the beginning of 2010, although you’d be hard put to spot the difference between the old…
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D-Max towing capacity raised to 3.5 tonne
Isuzu has announced a 500kg increase in D-Max’s towing weight, taking it to 3.5t…
On-the-spot fines for careless drivers
Middle/outside lane hogs and tailgaters to face on-the-spot fixed penalty fines for…
VOSA targetting light commercial operators
The warning came at the second Van Excellence conference organised by the Freight…
CV Show 2013 LCV Highlights
For those people who didn't manage to make it to the 2013 Commercial Vehicle Show here…
Vans of the Year Awards 2013
It's that time of the year again when we sit down to decide which, in our opinion, are…
