Citroen Ready to Run programme - more models, greater innovation and low cost

Citroen has just launched its new, expanded and innovative 2007 Ready to Run one-stop vehicle programme, which now includes the recently launched, all-new Citroen Dispatch and Relay ranges.

The award-winning Citroen Ready to Run programme, which was already the most extensive of its type offered in the UK, has not only been extended but all products have also benefited from an on-going improvement process. In addition to a wider range of specialist bodies/conversions, the new Ready to Run programme is the only one of its type to include van racking packages, a panel van tail lift and a Berlingo Dual Fuel (petrol/lpg) conversion.

All Ready to Run bodies, conversions and add-on packages are covered by each converter with two year unlimited mileage/three year 100,000 mile warranties, to match the cover provided with the standard Citroen vehicle. Also, all Citroen Ready to Run vehicles with Euro IV diesel engines can run, without modification, on up to 30 per cent bio-diesel.

Robert Handyside, Citroen’s commercial vehicle operations manager, comments, “The 2007 Citroen Ready to Run programme is unique in that it offers all the customer benefits of high quality, innovative design and shorter delivery times. Thanks to Citroen’s unique pricing proposition, it also offers customers the benefits of exceptional value for money, delivering cost savings of up to many thousands of pounds over comparable, competitor offers.”

“Not only is the latest Citroen Ready to Run programme the most comprehensive of its type, it is also unique in a number of other important aspects. All of the products are exceptionally well priced and we have been careful to ensure uncompromised conversion standards - any Ready to Run product is of the highest specification and supplied by the leading converter in its field. Furthermore, these converters have not been constrained by working to a given price. Instead, each converter has been encouraged to produce the optimum specification product for the programme without focussing on cost.”

The 2007 Citroen Ready to Run programme now includes:-

- NEW, EXPANDED range of Advanced Vehicle Builders’ 12, 15 and 17 seat minibuses and wheelchair accessible minibuses
- NEW, EXPANDED range of Buckstone Motor Bodies’ Relay Luton vans
- NEW range of Ingimex Relay dropside trucks
- NEW range of KFS Relay car transporters
- NEW Nicholson McLaren Engineering Dual Fuel Berlingo conversions
- NEW Qi Van Systems panel van racking packages
- NEW, EXPANDED range of Somers Refrigeration Berlingo, Dispatch and Relay temperature controlled panel vans
- NEW, EXPANDED range of Supertrucks Berlingo, Dispatch and Relay glass carrying vans
- NEW range of Tipmaster Relay tippers
- Tipmaster tail lifts for Dispatch and Relay panel vans

New Ready to Run Relay minibuses
Based on the newly launched Relay range, Advanced Vehicle Builders has now adopted bonded flush fit direct glazing. This, combined with the modern styling of the new Relay range, results in an extremely attractive minibus.

Priced from just £14,495 + VAT + delivery, the Ready to Run Relay minibus range includes 12 and 15 seat models. In addition, for the first time, there are two types of 17 seat Relay minibus in the programme. Advanced Vehicle Builders is also offering wheelchair accessible Relay minibuses, which are available through the Ready to Run programme.

The latest Relay minibuses incorporate all the established safety and operational benefits of the previous models. Thus they all have M1 tested seats, seat belts, mountings and under frame structure. With the introduction of the new Relay minibuses Advanced Vehicle Builders’ continuous product improvement process has seen the interior fit and finish quality raised to even higher levels, thanks to the introduction of all-new moulded interior panels.

Advanced Vehicle Builders has made full use of the new Relay’s wider body design to improve passenger accessibility with wider gangways. One model, based on the Relay 35 L3H2 is aimed at the schools market and this is now joined by a new and larger Relay 35 L4H2 based 17 seat model for non-school sectors.

A further new enhancement to the Ready to Run Relay minibuses is the adoption, as standard, of three individual slide and release rear seats. This enables operators to adjust passenger and luggage capacity to suit individual requirements and makes the Relay Ready to Run minibus an even more attractive proposition. The new slide and release rear seats are standard on all 12, 15 and 17 seat Ready to Run minibuses.

A wide range of options is available for the Relay Ready to Run minibus range, including power access steps, overhead hat racks and other comfort/convenience options to enhance an already very high level of standard specification.

New Ready to Run Relay Luton Van.
Buckstone Motor Bodies has an unrivalled reputation for producing exceptionally well engineered, but light weight Luton van bodywork. The new, expanded range of Ready to Run Relay Luton vans are based on Relay 35 L3 long wheelbase and L4 extra long chassis cabs to provide interior load volumes of up to 20cu.m and load deck lengths of up to 4.0m.

Like all other Ready to Run models, the Relay Luton van has a very high level of standard specification. All Ready to Run Relay Luton vans are constructed from anodised aluminium body sections with very high quality 11mm GRP panelling. In addition these Luton vans also have reverse parking sensors with audible/visual warning, full height tie rails, high quality, light weight, colour impregnated rear shutter and a full width under run bumper/rear step.

Dependent on model, Ready to Run Relay Luton vans offer payload capability of up to 1,180kg.
Priced from just £14,495 + VAT + delivery, Ready to Run Relay Luton vans are available with a range of options including tail lifts, heavy duty rub rails and an aerodynamic Luton head cover.

New Ready to Run Relay dropside
For the new Relay chassis cab, Ingimex is introducing an all-new dropside body, which provides a number of significant improvements. These include a new, larger ladder frame with galvanised wire mesh cab protection, easy action heavy duty aluminium dropsides with recessed fasteners and a non slip phenol resin bonded one piece ply floor with recessed load tie down points.

Priced from only £12,495 + VAT + delivery, the new Relay 35 L3 120 chassis cab based dropside has a near 1,500kg payload capacity.

New Ready to Run Relay car transporter
Ready to Run is the only ready bodied specialist vehicle programme to include car transporter vehicles. KFS, one of the UK’s leading specialists in this sector, has developed a new all-alloy body for the Ready to Run programme, based on a unique Citroen concept, the new Relay back to back cab.

This provides KFS with just the Relay cab complete with all mechanical units, to allow an AL-KO drop frame chassis to be attached. On this, KFS builds a light weight alloy car transporter body, which provides the dual benefit of easy loading and low transit height together with up to 1,600kg payload capacity, the highest available in class.

The rear deck length of the Ready to Run car transporter is suitable for carrying many sizes of passenger car and many light commercial vehicles. Priced from £14,995 + VAT + delivery, the Ready to Run Relay car transporter is supplied with light alloy load ramps and can be specified with optional Drive Away Packages, which include light bars, winches, tool lockers and the like.

New Ready to Run Flexi-Raxvan racking packages
New to the Ready to Run programme is Qi Van Systems. This leading racking specialist has produced no less than nine different Flexi-Rax packages for the Ready to Run programme, with prices ranging from just £39 + VAT to £1,195 + VAT.

These include packages for small parts storage, shelving and lockers, “Envirowash” (a warm water hand washing system) and a “Gentilli” ground loading roof rack system. In addition, Qi also offers first aid equipment, shelving, trays and other packages which are all available to fit Berlingo, Dispatch and Relay panel vans. Packages can be issued direct to the dealer for fitting and short lead times are assured for these UK manufactured kits. All these packages are designed to improve vehicle productivity and operator safety.

New Ready to Run temperature controlled panel vans
Another unique feature of Citroen’s Ready to Run programme is its exceptional choice of over 40 temperature controlled panel vans. These are built to tough, internationally recognised ATP standards by Somers Refrigeration, one of the most technologically innovative specialists in its field in the country. The range is available from just £9,495 + VAT + delivery for the Berlingo chiller van, and the temperature controlled panel van range also includes virtually any Dispatch or Relay panel van model.

All Somers Ready to Run temperature controlled conversions use advanced, light weight, efficient insulating material which gives the highest payloads available in class. Somers also includes moulded bulkheads in the new Dispatch and Relay for maximum driver legroom and comfort, as well as the latest door seal technology, coupled with new rear door mouldings on freezer vans, which also maximise the load area.

All Ready to Run temperature controlled panel vans use GAH chiller or freezer units as standard. The Ready to Run temperature controlled van range is available with a wide choice of options including a unique insulated, sliding side load door for Ready to Run Relay freezer vans.

New Ready to Run glass carrying vans
Another unique product in the Ready to Run range is glass carrying vans, which are produced by Supertrucks, the UK’s largest specialist in this field. This glass carrier range has now been expanded to include Berlingo, Dispatch and Relay glass carrying conversions. Ready to Run Relay glass carrying panel vans are priced from an extremely competitive £14,095 + VAT + delivery. Supertrucks has recently made a major investment in state-of-the-art computer numerically controlled production machinery for its racking, which has further raised the quality standards of its Ready to Run product.

As standard, the Ready to Run Relay glass carrying conversion includes a full length/full width anodised aluminium roof rack, a side carrying rack complete with fascia and two fixed internal racks, all complete with securing poles. Unique features of this range include inclinometer, reflective safety markers, a pole rest and full test certification to show maximum safe working load. In addition, the Ready to Run Relay glass carrier is optionally available with the new Supertrucks Glass-Glide slide-out internal rack, which makes loading and unloading glass products faster and safer.

New Ready to Run Relay tipper
The new Ready to Run Relay tipper is built by Tipmaster, the UK’s largest supplier of 3.5 tonne gvw tipper packages. Priced from just £12,995 + VAT + delivery, the Ready to Run Relay tipper has a payload of up to 1,280kg. This exceptionally well-priced package has the highest payload of any Tipmaster 3.5 tonne gvw tipper conversion.

As standard the Ready to Run Tipmaster tipper package, which is built on a 3.5 tonne gvw Relay 35 medium wheelbase chassis cab, includes a tipper body with an all-steel underframe, floor and headboard. The extruded alloy body dropsides and tailboard have recessed fasteners. Tipmaster’s own-make electro-hydraulic power pack, with its chromed under-floor scissor action ram, tips the body. A remote, wander lead mounted control for body tipping actuation is included as part of the package. The Tipmaster body has been upgraded for the new Ready to Run Relay package with a new, easier to use body prop and stronger, zinc plated body corner pillars with recessed locking fasteners.

The Citroen Ready to Run Relay 35 Tipmaster tipper package is also available with a comprehensive range of body options, including an all-alloy body, which increases payload by up to 130kg to further increase its operational capability.

New Ready to Run tail lift
The Citroen Ready to Run programme is the first of its type in the UK to include a tail lift for panel vans. To suit both new Dispatch and Relay panel vans, Tipmaster is offering a 300kg capacity tail lift for safer, faster and more efficient loading.

The Tipmaster tail lift offers a unique combination of benefits, including compact size and fold-away design, together with a low weight of just 145kg. It is also extremely competitively priced at just £1,995 + VAT. This price includes fitting to any Dispatch or Relay panel van, anywhere in the UK, with Tipmaster offering a nationwide fitting service.