Mercedes-Benz UK has reached the milestone of having 100,000 vehicles on active Service Contracts, with vehicles from smart through to New Actros now covered. Since the start of 2012, Mercedes-Benz has already added more than 15,000 cars, vans and trucks to its service contracts. Mercedes-Benz Commercial Vehicle Complete Contracts cover the costs for servicing, inspections [...]
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Mercedes-Benz UK has launched a brand new Online Service Advisor for customers to book a vehicle service, MOT or repair. The new site, www.mercedes-benzvanservicing.co.uk enables Mercedes-Benz van owners to get a no-obligation quote and also complete an online booking 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The site uses the individual vehicle specification, age [...]
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Mercedes-Benz trucks will soon adding the Antos to its range. This is a truck that has been designed specifically for heavy-duty short-radius distribution transport use – a replacement for the Axor. The vehicles are currently being tested in camouflage, but the covers will come off for the Commercial Vehicle IAA in September and the start [...]
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Iveco and in-house finance arm Iveco Capital have jointly launched a new flexible hire product designed to give heavy truck operators greater flexibility on contract hire terms. Named ‘Flexi Hire’, it reduces the financial risk to a customer of acquiring a vehicle on long term contract hire, when their requirement for that vehicle might subsequently [...]
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Breaking with their well known UK policy of EGR only, MAN will have to alter their campaigns to just add diesel (and Adblue). The company has launched an SCR tractor unit at Euro 5. Les Bishop, MAN product marketing manager explains, “In a market where some operators have invest heavily in an Adblue infrastructure to [...]
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Vauxhall’s new British-built Vivaro ecoFLEX Euro 5 panel vans, with CO2 emissions of just 180g/km and combined fuel economy of 40.9mpg, are now at dealers. Based on the short wheelbase standard roof models, but with some subtle specification changes, the Vivaro ecoFLEX could save operators over £800 in three years versus the 198g/km/37.6mpg standard version. [...]
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We are likely to see new Avia trucks on the road again soon as a Stoke-based company is starting to import the vehicles under the ‘Longton Avia’ brand. The D75 has had a chequered history since 2002 when it originally surfaced as a Daewoo vehicle imported by a new company in North London created by [...]
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You know that there’s not much new news when you are reporting on headlights – but news it is…. All new trucks from August this year have to be fitted with daytime running lights. Scania trucks has chosen the 2012 RAI show to demonstrate their new H7 LED daytime running lights. They give the [...]
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It looks as though Ford are going to split up their current Transit range to make it more straightforward to compare the options available with the rest of the market. Vauxhall have a Vivaro and a Movano, Mercedes-Benz have the Sprinter and Vito, VW have the Crafter and Transporter etc. etc. It seems we will [...]
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The ‘pre teaser’ phase for the launch of the new Mercedes-Benz Citan – the Renault/Mercedes joint initiative, which will enable Mercedes-Benz in the small van category. Standing room only amongst journalists in a press-only event Journalists were shown the new van in the flesh in a press event on the eve of Amsterdam’s RAI show. [...]
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