Most people who land here are stuck between two vans. More often than you would expect there is no difference worth arguing about, because several of the most-compared pairs in the UK are the same vehicle wearing different badges — the Vivaro and the Trafic were one van for years, so were the Movano and the Master, and the Combo, Berlingo and Partner still are. On a badge-shared pair you are choosing between two adverts, not two vans: compare mileage, history and condition, and let the badge decide nothing. Where there is a genuine difference, it is usually size rather than quality. Each pairing below has a full comparison behind it, and they all sit under our Van Guides hub.
In this guide
- Vauxhall Combo vs Peugeot Partner — the small-van trio, Combo, Berlingo and Partner, where the van is the same and only the trim and the price move.
- Renault Master vs Vauxhall Movano — the large pair, and how to tell which era of Movano you are standing in front of.
- Renault Trafic vs Vauxhall Vivaro — both generations, the engines, the load areas and the running costs.
- Transit vs Transit Custom vs Connect — a size question in badge clothing: the small one, the medium one and the full-size one.
- Transit Custom vs Vauxhall Vivaro — the most common dilemma on our own forecourt, and a real choice rather than a badge one.
- Transit Custom vs Renault Trafic — two genuinely different medium vans: one holds its money better, the other costs less to get into.
- Vauxhall Vivaro vs Citroën Dispatch — twins on the newer plates, so this one comes down to condition and price.
This is not a random selection: the Vivaro and the Transit Custom are the two vans we sell most of, so most of our own customers are weighing up one of them against something else on this list.
Where to go next
Condition beats model every time, so once you have picked a side, see what we have in stock now — and ring us if you are still torn, because we will tell you which one we would keep. Then buying a van covers the checks that separate a good one from a tidy-looking one.
