Mercedes-Benz Vito Wins 2025 Irish Van of the Year Award

The Mercedes-Benz Vito has been voted the Irish Van of the Year 2025, in 
association with Continental Tyres.  
 
Voted on by a jury of thirteen of Ireland’s most experienced commercial vehicle 
journalists drawn from the Motoring Media Association of Ireland (MMAI), the 
annual Irish Van of the Year Award acknowledges productivity, safety, comfort and 
fuel efficiency in the latest commercial vehicle technologies.  
 
Chairman of the MMAI, Daragh Keany, commented: “Congratulations to the 
Mercedes-Benz team on the win for the new Vito.  The Vito beat 31 other van models 
in what was a bumper year for new van launches and while all of those other models 
are great vehicles, the Vito just had the edge that got it over the line.  Our judges 
commended this new version of the Vito for its great on-board technologies, 
practicality, and its safety and driver assistance systems”. 
 
Presenting the award to Fergus Conheady of the Mercedes-Benz Ireland Commercial 
Vehicles team, Tom Dennigan of award sponsors, Continental Tyres, said: “!t is back 
to back wins for the Mercedes-Benz team as the Vito win comes on the back of the 
success of the Citan in last year’s Irish Van of the Year competition.  The 
recommendations of the MMAI Irish Van of the Year jury are always a great guide to 
fleet operators and van owners on the best vehicles for the particular requirements of 
the Irish market”.   
 
The field of eligible models for this year’s Irish Van of the Year award were broken 
down into five categories and then the overall winner was drawn from those five 
winning models. 
 
The Irish Van of the Year 2025 category winners: 
 Irish Car-Derived Van of the Year: Toyota Corolla Professional 
 Irish Small Panel Van of the Year: Ford Transit Courier 
 Irish Medium Panel Van of the Year: Mercedes-Benz Vito 
 Irish Large Panel Van of the Year: Renault Master 
 Irish Pick Up of the Year: INEOS Quartermaster 
 
Photo caption: 
Tom Dennigan of Continental Tyres; Fergus Conheady, Mercedes Benz Ireland; and Daragh Keany, 
Chairman of the Motoring Media Association of Ireland.