The Number Of Classic Minis Still On The Road In UK?

[mab01uk]

The latest DVLA figures for the Mini have just been published in the July 2009 issue of Practical Classics Magazine:-

5,505,874 Total produced
1,581,887 UK sales (28.7%)
3,923,987 Rest of world (71.3%)

Latest UK Statistics:
55,318 Minis left on UK roads today
34,095 SORNed

5.66% of the 1,581,887 are now left in the UK, so around 94.34% have been scrapped/written off or exported to date.

Survivor Breakdown:
Austin Mini: 38.3%
Morris Mini: 6.2%
Rover Mini: 53.8%
Riley Elf: 0.9%
Wolseley Hornet: 0.8%

(Previously known numbers for 2002 were 117,504 Mini Saloons and Estates, and 1,771 Vans and Pick-ups left on UK roads = 119,275 total)

[Deano]

Must keep them all alive

[charlie_mini]

doin our bit, between me an moddinmad we've got 6 of them!
including 3 fairly rare ones!

[moddinmad]

im sure i could obtain a few more you can never have enough variety!

[ROADRUNNER]

I just cut one up last night a Mk 2 as well, God would have found it hard to restore that one, so its off for parts we go

[RSPop]

Fascinating facts. Lets keep doing our bit to keep them alive

[mab01uk]

Worked out some more statistics using the DVLA figures above...............

119,275 Minis were on UK roads in 2002.
87,413 Minis taxed/sorned in UK in 2009.
=31,862 Minis have been scrapped/gone missing since 2002 (7 years).

Averaged out = approx. 4500 Minis scrapped/missing each year between 2002 - 2009
(or 2 x London to Brighton Runs worth every year!)

1,492,352 UK Minis have been scrapped over the past 50 years (94.34%)

I think there are more Austin Minis (38.3%) than Morris (6.2%) surviving because many of the 1970's/80's British Leyland, etc, Minis were actually registered as Austin's.

[Deano]

oh dear wondewr how many ive been reponsible for

[moddinmad]

wel mine was an export to germany but was returned to its rightfull home!!