Van market continues to recover in March

Date: Friday, April 5, 2013

New van sales rose by 11.5% to 43,684 in the plate-change month of March and were up 11.7% to 68,882 during the first quarter of the year compared to the opening three months of 2012, according to the SMMT.
 

 Nigel base, the SMMT’s commercial vehicle boss, welcomed the “uplift in van demand” ahead of the 2013 Commercial Vehicle Show next week (9-11 April).

Apart from the niche 4x4 segment, all sectors of the LCV market improved year-on-year in March, with pick-ups, small and light vans and heavy vans performing particularly strongly.



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