Vauxhall Movano conversion

Gowrings Mobility, the UK’s leading manufacturer and supplier of wheelchair accessible vehicles, has just launched its latest conversion, the Vauxhall Movano. This now joins the Renault Master in providing another option to the accessible minibus market.

The short wheelbase Movano has been fully converted to provide flexible seating configurations of up to three wheelchair users, three seated passengers and the driver, or seven seated passengers and the driver.

The three wheelchair positions are located for best access,vision and space and access is via a Ricon inboard lift.  The lift has been cleverly offset so that carers do not have to twist and turn to manoeuvre the wheelchair passenges into the vehicles and so that they can also sit alongside the wheelchair user if required.

Citroen and GM Coachwork have worked together to create the new Citroen Blaze, which is a new version of the Berlingo Multispace MPV. This advanced, compact wheelchair accessible vehicle (WAV) has been developed to set new standards of convenience in the sector and is available in two formats.

Citroen Blaze

The new Citroen Blaze is available in either driver, plus wheelchair passenger and two other passengers, or driver plus wheelchair passenger and three other other passengers. The vehicles are based on the Citroen Berlingo Multispace VT or XTR and offer generous headroom, plus easy and safe access for any wheelchair passenger, due to a very shallow angle for the fold-out, non-slip surfaced light alloy ramp.

GM Coachwork is one of the UK’s largest specialist converters in the Motability sector and was awarded “Motability Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle Partner of the Year 2009″, by Motability.