Volkswagen focuses on the future Operators hoping to feast their eyes on VW’s Transporter at the brand’s home town show had to be content with a taster in the form of the Tristar conc...
Have a safe trip Electronic Stability Control (ESC) or Electronic Stability Programme (ESP) as it is also called has been widely hailed as the most important advance i...
15 Sep 14
Mercedes broadens medium van horizons Mercedes-Benz is confident the introduction of front-wheel drive to its new generation Vito, which arrives in the UK in the first quarter of 2015, wil...
02 Sep 14
New Mercedes-Benz Vito: here in 2015 Mercedes-Benz has revealed the first details and pictures of its new Vito medium van, which will make its public debut at the Hanover Commercial Vehic...
01 Sep 14
Transported through the years Volkswagen unveiled its now legendary Transporter (T1) in right-hand drive mode in 1954 at the Earls Court Motor Show, and six decades on a VW spokesm...
01 Jul 14
Trial leads to big British Gas EV order With the car and LCV industry in the learning phase when it comes to electric vehicles, British Gas took a bold step last year in setting up a six-mon...
11 Jun 14
Rolling with the punches Philosopher Thomas Hobbs is not someone who regularly gets quoted in What Van? but his description of life as “nasty, brutish and short” might apply t...
Heavy van hat-trick Citroen, Peugeot and Fiat have revealed details of their respective revised Relay, Boxer and Ducato large vans ahead of their arrival later this year.
28 Apr 14
Renault and Vauxhall set to steal the show This year’s Commercial Vehicle Show promises to be the biggest and most successful yet with almost all the exhibition space sold out two months in adv...
28 Apr 14
New Isuzu UK boss plans to stick with party line To say 2013 was a big year for isuzu Truck UK would be something of an understatement. Having operated as an independent company since 2004 following ...
02 Apr 14
Five-year high for LCV registrations Generally seen as a decent indicator of the UK’s economic health, the success of the light commercial vehicle market last year was a welcome return to...
01 Apr 14
Vans by numbers The number of light commercial vehicles in the UK rocketed by almost 30% to 3.28 million in the last decade and vans now account for one-in-10 vehicle...
28 Feb 14
What Van? rewards the best in the business The great and the good of the light commercial vehicle industry gathered at an exclusive central London venue before Christmas to salute the best prod...
03 Feb 14
Vauxhall prepares to move centre stage Vauxhall’s Luton plant is gearing up to begin production of the second generation Vivaro in 2014 and the plan, according to CV brand manager Steve Bry...
31 Jan 14
Nissan shapes up for the future Every now and then a new van comes along that has the potential to change the face of the light commercial vehicle market.
Hitting the sweet spot Ford is the big winner in the 2014 What Van? Awards, with the medium-sized Transit Custom becoming the first model to scoop the overall Van of the Yea...