Interesting Fact

[Mat.T]

Some ones just posted this on retro-rides :

Interestingly over a quarter of all K10 micra's sold are still road-registered

Not bad considering like most small cars of this age they are treated as disposable goods.

The rest of the post:

There's a piece about this in in this morning's 'Metro'....
Here's some stats:

Morris Marina (71-80) 807,000 sold - 745 still on the road
Cortina Mk4/5 (76-82) 1065682 sold - 2010 still going
Renault 18 (79-86) 131241 sold - 317 left
Renault 5 S1 (72-83) 216199 sold - 499 left
Skoda Estelle (77-92) 102105 sold - 612 left
Cavalier Mk2 (81-89) 807624 sold - 6343 remaining
Metro (80-94) 1370000 sold - 21468 left (about 21467 too many )
Montego (84-95) 436000 sold - 8988 remaining
Maestro (83-95) 440000 sold - 11574 left
Uno Mk1 (83-89) 190000 sold - 5179 remaining.

Interestingly over a quarter of all K10 micra's sold are still road-registered, and best surviavl rate is of the Porsche 924 (76-87) of which 3534 out of 5252 are still out there. Oh and the 1952-55 Bentley R-type continental... of 102 sold in the UK, only 2 are unaccounted for!

Interesting reading!

 

[pietro]

Amazing info... where can I find out about other cars and how come I do not see Micra listed?

 

[wilsonian]

thats pretty good going

 

[Ems]

yeah, how many k10's are still registered!! A quarter doesn't mean much to us i'm afraid!!!

 

[Arnold]

Pretty interesting stuff

 

[Mat.T]

yeah, how many k10's are still registered!! A quarter doesn't mean much to us i'm afraid!!!

rubbish a 1/4 means loads, after all look at the survival rate of the Uno and metro well under 1%, i think 25% is pretty good going.

if you really want to know the numbers email:
Mu'azu Aguye
Department for Transport (DfT)
Statistics Roads 1
Zone 2/16
Great Minster House
LONDON
SW1P 4DR
Tel: (020) 7944 3077
GTN (3533) 3077
E-mail: mu'azu.aguye(at)dft(dot)gsi(dot)gov(dot)uk

edit just found this:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006400372,00.html

Nissan sold more than 340,000 Mark I Micras between 1983 and 1992 — and 96,000 are still on the road.

 

[micra man]

Thats a great survival rate compared to some of the other similar cars. Just shows what Japanese engineering can do, although I have noticed there seems to be less and less all of the time that you see on the road.

 

[D4R73N]

Year, i wonder how many of those renault 18's work...lol

 

[bobsp16]

Amazing info... where can I find out about other cars and how come I do not see Micra listed?

u taking the the #### pieman

 

[D4R73N]

u taking the the #### pieman

Apears to be a pretty neutral comment to me mate

 

[Turtle]

anyone know how many of the different micra types are left...

SS, GSX or even ST for example

Im sure someone said these figures somewhere, i cant find them!

 

[Ems]

I don't think anyones done those sort of figures!!!! I may b wrong tho!!!

 

[Ed]

Search for ST on the MSC as I found out the figures ages ago. Apparently there were 11 in total in the UK and at that time 5 road registered.

Ed

 

[Antony]

yeah...and who in the club owns his own fair share of ST's?????????

lol

 

[Slim]

ST's aren't rare. As far as i'm aware, my '87 Toyota Carina GT-R is the only one in the UK, and probably europe as well.