Mercedes-Benz Citan Fails to Impress in Euro NCAP Safety Tests

Questions are being asked after the Mercedes-Benz Citan, a small commercial and passenger van that is based on the Renault Kangoo, only managed to achieve an unimpressive three-star safety rating at Euro NCAP's standard set of tests. Read more »

Hartmann Releases MetroStream and MetroProtect Tunes for Mercedes-Benz Citan

Perhaps it's a German thing, but while the Renault Kangoo never really caught up with the tuning industry, its re-badged and slightly more premium Mercedes-Benz Citan-offspring has, with a second company releasing a styling and performance kit for the van since it launched at the end of last year. Read more »

New Mercedes-Benz Citan Van Receives One of its First Tuning Jobs

The new Citan urban delivery van is the fruit of the partnership between Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler and the Renault-Nissan Alliance. It is based on the French firm's successful Kangoo series and is available in three different body variants.

While it hasn't been on the market that long since European sales began in October, the Citan has already caught the attention of tuners, with German aftermarket company KTW Tuning presenting, if not the first, one of the first programs for Mercedes' smallest commercial vehicle.

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MacGyver Returns, Drops the Mullet Gains a Mercedes-Benz Citan [w/Video]

From 1985 to 1992, secret agent MacGyver was able to save the world some 139 times (that's the number of the TV series' episodes) using nothing more than everyday materials and of course, his trusty Swiss Army knife and duct tape.

Two decades after the action-adventure television series ended, Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson, may have lost his famous blonde mullet but his skills remain in demand.

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New Photos and Video of the 2013 Mercedes-Benz Citan Van Series

At the Beurs van Berlage, a prominent building on the Damrak in the center of Amsterdam, Mercedes-Benz hosted the world premiere of its new Citan compact van series before the public gets a first look at the vehicle at the IAA Commercial Vehicle Show in Hanover in September.

Mercedes-Benz's entry in the lucrative and growing sector of urban delivery and passenger vans is the result of Daimler's strategic partnership with the Renault-Nissan Alliance as the Citan is based on the Renault Kangoo series.

The Citan will eventually be sold in three different body variants including a panel van, a crew bus and the Mixto. The commercial version of the Citan will offer buyers a choice of three different lengths (3.94 m, 4.32 m and 4.71m).

The five-seater Mixto passenger van is based on the longest platform (4.71m) and features folding rear seat bench, a wire mesh partition separating the load compartment, and two sliding doors.

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New Mercedes-Benz Citan Van is a Renault Kangoo in Disguise

Mercedes-Benz has lifted the curtains off its new Renault Kangoo-based Citan delivery van several months ahead of its first public outing at the 2012 IAA Commercial Vehicle Show in Hanover this September.

The Citan is the first project to come out of the partnership between Mercedes-Benz's parent company Daimler and the Renault-Nissan Alliance, which was formed in 2010. The new Mercedes van will be produced at Renault's factory in Maubeuge, France, where the automaker assembles the Kangoo.

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