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The pick-up truck is no longer for work. And no longer is it considered a purely commercial vehicle. In fact, in more recent years, it’s become rather ‘cool’ to own one. And in that transition comes even higher levels of comfort, decent materia [...]

Developed from the Nissan Navara, yes. A Nissan Navara in a posh frock, no. Many people know that the Mercedes-Benz recent rendition of the X-Class was developed from the Nissan Navara – this is no secret – but the newest addition to the range, [...]

With manufacturers, tech' companies and others scrambling to develop increasingly impressive electric and hydrogen powertrains, swapple body-shells and autonomous vehicles with the aims of making motorways, cities and towns more pleasant places [...]

To say that the new Citroen Dispatch is an improvement over its predecessor would be an understatement: Danni Bagnall finds out why.The new Citroen Dispatch model features better carrying capability, higher payloads, improved specification and [...]

UK companies’ gravitation toward pickup trucks at the expense of good old vans isn’t something new, according to contract hire funder Arval’s LCV product manager, Eddie Parker, who believes that the rising popularity of pickups began more than [...]

The nature of Royal Mail’s activities has changed massively in recent years and is expected to continue shifting with a 4% annual increase in parcel deliveries and a 3% drop in good ol’ letters. Actually, those figures surprised us, sounding lo [...]

According to figures obtained from 45 police forces by the institution that is the BBC, a van is broken into every 23 minutes here in the UK. Basically, that’s two vans each and every hour. In 2014/15, 14,063 van thefts were recorded, a figure [...]

In the wake of the VW emissions ‘thing’ and all the talk about public health and air quality, the UK is already following many European countries and working towards banning diesel vehicles from in and around cities, and perhaps ultimately phas [...]

With vast stretches of the UK’s road network currently strangled by 50mph roadworks zones and general congestion, it can be miserable enough commuting to work if you drive a car, but what about all the poor van drivers who spend much longer beh [...]