Peugeot knows a thing or two about vans, the brand having built around 2 million LCVs since 1950. This Partner model is the company's biggest seller and it's been revitalised in this third generation guise. The Partner is the kind of model you choose if your business needs a compact LCV that isn't quite as small as a modern cityvan-sector model would be - something like Peugeot's own Bipper. Vehicles like that are based on superminis: Partner-type models, in contrast, sit upon the more spacious platforms originally developed for family hatchbacks or small MPVs.

There are certainly plenty of vans of that type - most notably perhaps, this Peugeot's near-identical design stablemates, Citroen's Berlingo, Fiat's Doblo, Toyota's Proace City and Vauxhall's Combo. Beyond these rivals, this Partner must also directly take on strong-selling contenders like Ford's Transit Connect and Volkswagen's Caddy, along with three further brand-shared designs, the one we know as either the Renault Kangoo, the Nissan Townstar or the Mercedes Citan.