Emergency vehicle centre for Luton Largest police car factory in Europe opens in Luton 2,500 vehicles per year converted for police, fire and ambulance 50 new jobs in Luton after production moved in-house UK supplier firms benefit with 90% material sourced locally EUROPE'S largest police car and van factory has opened in the UK with a new Vauxhall 999 plant dedicated to the [...]
THE roads are alive with new van and pick-up models, not to mention the new era of Euro 6 emissions regulations, so let's have a look at six of the best business vans. No better place to start than this year's Business Vans Awards 2016, dominated by the Luton-built Vauxhall Vivaro. What is Euro 6? The Euro 6 EU Legislation [...]
Jim Jakes' market area North, South, East and West Yorkshire Northumberland Tyne & Wear Humberside Derbyshire Lincolnshire & North Lincolnshire Cleveland County Durham Nottinghamshire Staffordshire SMILING van seller Jim Jakes is "top of the tree" - winning a top Vauxhall sales award for the 15th consecutive time. Yorkshire-based Jim, commercial sales manager at Bristol Street Motors Vauxhall Knaresborough, won the British manufacturer’s [...]
LUTON'S Vivaro van-building Vauxhall plant strikes gold for safety excellence in RoSPA's Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2016. This year marks the 60th year for the annual scheme run by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and the award joins Vauxhall's cluster of honours this year topped by Vivaro's Business Van of the Year 2016, Best Large Trades Van and [...]
Vauxhall Vivaro badged Made in Britain Luton-built Vivaro badged Made in Britain Up to 40 per cent of content sourced locally from British firms Vivaro designed by team led by Luton-born design director Malcolm Ward Vivaro is Business Vans Van of the Year Vauxhall joining Unipart, Naylor, Anglian Home Improvements and the National Gallery among 700 members VAUXHALL Commercial Vehicles has joined [...]
THE Children’s Trust, a charity that offers residential and community-based rehabilitation services for children and young people with a brain injury, has welcomed a new Brit-built Vauxhall Vivaro Combi minibus on to its fleet. The Vivaro Combi minibus, bought by the charity thanks to funding from The Presidents Club Charitable Trust, London, was converted by Gowrings and will be used to [...]
Vauxhall on top in retail van sales Vivaro best selling retail van Retail van sales of 13,000 for 16.2% market share Vivaro sales up 28% with more than 27,000 sold Total Vauxhall van sales up 28% with over 41,000 sold VAUXHALL leads retail van sales in the UK with more customers in 2015 than any other manufacturer, and the Luton-built Vivaro [...]
Vauxhall's Banham Group order Vauxhall supplying 55 Vivaro and Combo vans Banham runs a fleet of 200 vehicles, including Vauxhall Corsa, Astra and Insignia cars alongside Astravan and Vivaro vans. Fleet is on a four-year replacement cycle Around 70 per cent of fleet is Vauxhall, which will increase to 100 per cent in the near future VAUXHALL has secured a 55-van order [...]
VAUXHALL'S fleet order for 2,000 police and fire vehicles across 28 forces revealed this week includes 130 Vivaro vans in the deal worth more than £35 million at showroom prices. The vans, Vivaro L1H1 2900 1.6CDTi Bi Turbo 120ps, are not just "stickered up" but fitted out for their special role, including secure custody cells, in the conversion centre at Vauxhall's Luton plant [...]
Vauxhall celebrates Vivaro million One million Vivaro-type vans made at Vauxhall’s plant in Luton Landmark Vivaro handed over to BT Fleet Vauxhall’s biggest Vivaro customer is BT Fleet Vauxhall is UK’s number one van manufacturer VAUXHALL'S Luton plant is celebrating building its millionth Vivaro type van. The milestone Vivaro was handed over to BT Fleet, Vauxhall’s biggest Vivaro customer. Vauxhall is the UK’s number [...]
LET’S be honest, we’d all love a new van, but sometimes that’s just not possible – for example when you’re starting out on a new business venture and money is tight. This is where these bargain vans can offer an affordable, but still practical van solution. So, Business Vans has picked five of the best and cheapest vans on sale. [...]
VAUXHALL commercial vehicles have made strong gains across the entire van range this year, and Vivaro stars with sales up 50% making Vauxhall number one manufacturer for retail customers. Vauxhall van facts: Brit-built Vivaro accounts for more than one in ten of all retail vans sold YTD For January to September 2015, Vivaro sales up 50% over same period in 2014 Sibling [...]
VAUXHALL is kicking off its shoes and putting on the flipflops for the Frankfurt Motor Show to debut a new version of the Luton-built Vivaro: the Vivaro Surf Concept at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show. And it looks pretty cool to us. So when you’ve downed tools at the end of the week, the Vivaro Surf Concept will be ideal [...]
Hoover Candy must be Vauxhall Vivaro fans, as they’re hovering up 150 more onto their fleet, in addition to the 36 supplied a year ago. Chosen because of range-topping fuel consumption and improved fuel figures, Hoover Candy has ordered L1H1 variants, fitted with the 1.6 120PS BiTurbo engine for all its models. Rear parking sensors, bespoke internal racking and the [...]
LIKE car manufacturing, British commercial vehicle manufacturing is on the upward curve. According to figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) today, commercial vehicle production grew by more than a quarter in the first six months of this year. Almost 50,000 CVs were built between January and June – a 29.9% growth compared to the same [...]
