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[daemonchild]

You'll note there are no BL or Austin Rover Minis listed, all the Minis I've owned from that era have been registered as Austin regardless of what it said on the badges.

I suppose the "scrapped" figure will be fairly accurate since Sorn came in, it will include exports and those that have migrated to the racetrack (unless they are just sorned?) but still a worryingly large number.

Thanks Ethel that makes more sense now.................all my BL/Austin-Rover era Minis badged only as "Mini" were Austin in the log book now you mention it..

Yes a worryingly large number still being scrapped each year, hopefully more Mini owners will make the effort to save accident damaged or MOT failure Minis but this scrappage listing on Ebay is not a good sign:-
http://cgi.ebay.co.u...T...93:1|294:50

I would not object to anyone saving it with a suitable donor V5 to beat this Government scrappage scheme!!

Someone buy it!

[MRA]

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

That's a lorra lorra minis!

What about older Minis that have been off the road for lots of years and are not Sorned ? I have two that DVLA told me couldn't be sorned because they hadn't been on the road for such a long time etc....

[mab01uk]

Update to this thread!
The latest DVLA figures for the Classic Mini have just been published in the November 2010 issue of Mini Magazine:-

Barely 30,000 Mini's left on the road 2010
Latest UK Statistics:
63,592 Classic Minis still registered in UK on October 1st 2010
of which:
32,847 were taxed,
30,745 on SORN

(Wolseley Hornet and Riley Elf derivatives were not included)

5,505,874 Total Mini's produced 1959-2000
1,581,887 = UK sales (28.7%)
3,923,987 = Rest of world (71.3%)

Edited by mab01uk, 18 October 2010 - 04:40 PM.

[tadleysimon]

nad news for the mini, good news for the current owners,

my car is getting rarer lol

[1984mini25]

Update to this thread!
The latest DVLA figures for the Classic Mini have just been published in the November 2010 issue of Mini Magazine:-

Barely 30,000 Mini's left on the road 2010
Latest UK Statistics:
63,592 Classic Minis still registered in UK on October 1st 2010
of which:
32,847 were taxed,
30,745 on SORN

(Wolseley Hornet and Riley Elf derivatives were not included)

5,505,874 Total Mini's produced 1959-2000
1,581,887 = UK sales (28.7%)
3,923,987 = Rest of world (71.3%)

So if that’s correct, 86.428 minis have been SCRAPPED in the last 8 years since 2002
Working out at an average of on 10.803 being scrapped each year!!

But if that’s right and it carries on, in the next 3 years there WON’T be any minis left on the roads.

I’m not counting the ones on sorn as there not technically on the road.

[newbambeeno]

I wonder how many of those 80,000 were because of the scrappage scheme? Scary stat though. Hopefully the 30,000 off the road are ALL projects and will be back on the room all restored!

[Blayney]

Mine's one of the SORN this year, sadly.

Still will be one of the taxed next year!

[Dolly 89]

mine is one of the sorn's one this year but hopefully next year she will be one of the taxed ones or maybe the year after lol

[Pending]

wow, didn't know information like this was available

sad news is that all 7 of mine are SORN

[minidream94]

WOW thats amazing, shame tho to see so little still on the roads of the UK

Wonder if there will be any left for when i have kids, and when there able to drive :S

[1984mini25]

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

That's a lorra lorra minis!

Update to this thread!
The latest DVLA figures for the Classic Mini have just been published in the November 2010 issue of Mini Magazine:-

Barely 30,000 Mini's left on the road 2010
Latest UK Statistics:
63,592 Classic Minis still registered in UK on October 1st 2010
of which:
32,847 were taxed,
30,745 on SORN

I wonder how many of those 80,000 were because of the scrappage scheme? Scary stat though. Hopefully the 30,000 off the road are ALL projects and will be back on the room all restored!

Well if you look above, that’s already over 22,000 less in one year alone.

Edited by 1984mini25, 19 October 2010 - 06:50 PM.

[xBR4DLEY]

Another SORN over here , should be on the road in another year-ish

[MRA]

I have 4 minis 2 of which are so old.... they can't be sorned.. in other words they have been off the road since before SORN started.

[1984mini25]

I’ve also got one that’s not been on the road for the last 3 or more years, but all the sorn’ed ones aren’t adding to the number of them actually on the road though.

[MRA]

Have I missed something here ? I thought the 30k minis on the road didn't include Sorned ? so that means any mini sorned is a potential road going Mini in time, but all these figures miss out on the Minis that have not been in the sorn system as they have been off the road for a long time....