Van Guard News

An impressive fleet of commercial vehicles, displaying the breadth and depth of Fiat Professional products, is on display at this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show in Birmingham’s NEC.

The stunning new Fiat Fiorino light van is the star of the show on the Fiat Professional stand (no. 210, Hall 11), and is joined by two Doblo Cargos, three Scudos, four Ducatos and a Grande Punto van.

Nissan is continuing its drive into the LCV market with the re-introduction of its legendary workhorse pickup model, re-named NP300. Making its debut at the Commercial Vehicle Show on April 15th, the NP300 will be available in three bodystyles; Single Cab, King Cab and Double Cab, with the latter being available from late summer.

Hummer dropped their H1 in 2006. The big passenger SUV that was based on the famous military Humvee was deemed to be too environmentally unfriendly for the modern US market. However, another H1 name has been revived here in Ireland.

Here’s an MPV with attitude! This is Citroen’s rugged Berlingo Multi­space XTR.

We’ve already brought you pictures of the standard car, which will be launched at Geneva this week, but this model has a more adventurous look.

Citroen showed three new models at Geneva – the estate version of the C5, and the Berlingo and Nemo van-based mini-MPVs. But perhaps a more significant change was harder to spot.