Well the Trio that live in France and Italy have once again come up with another winning solution. They got together after the success brought about with the previous marriage, albeit a 3way one! To come up with a van that will take the market by storm when it is launched.

This van fills a gap in the market which lies between small and medium van, you could call it a semi-medium or a maxi-small if that makes sense. If you were looking at Berlingo, Partner or Doblo and thinking hmmmm just too small and wincing at the thought of going up to Dispatch, Expert or Scudo then fear no more.

The solution is here in the form of the Citroën Nemo, Peugeot Bipper and Fiat Fiorino, which will hit the UK in May, may look rather like the Berlingo, Partner and Doblo Cargo, but on closer inspection prove to be very different animals. These vans have been designed purely for around town use but give larger load volumes than their smaller cousins.

Built in Turkey on a budget that hopefully ensures the price will be right in the UK

All manufacturers have got it together and designed a cracking small/medium sized van. Each van can carry 610kg of kit including the driver, always allow 100kg for the driver and maybe a bit more if it's the Fiat you buy, you know what pasta does to the figure!

As far as security goes, these vans have a Thatcham 5 star rating against theft and 4 stars against breakins all in all it's a pretty secure van.

There will not be any petrol versions released by any of the trio, petrol vans could be seeing their end days with the introduction of bio-ethanol fuels. The only real reason we ever had petrol vans was to convert them to LPG, however this has turned out to be a damp squib due to filling stations being very few and far between that offered LPG.

Peugeot Vans continue to go into niches not explored before. Yes Ford and VW have dabbled but in my opinion it has been half hearted, especially on the Ford side as they favour the eastern European Marketplace rather than the UK, I guess this must be down to profit margins. There has now been a serious shortage of Ford Commercial Product for over a year in the UK.

Latest Fiat Vans will surprise us all. The new models en route and arriving in May will probably ruffle a few German feathers. Volkswagen will think hmmm yes but not same quality, Americans will think, we are not bothered, we make more profit in Eastern Europe so we will drip feed Transit and Transit Connect into the UK, just to keep them interested!

New Models Of Fiat vans will look at this as such an opportunity and they will exploit it.

Can you blame them?