Guess How May Gti's Are Left In The Uk?

[AJA_GTi 0]

Based on an interesting question by 'alfer' in another thread I emailed the government vehicle statistics people and amazingly got a quick reply and spreadsheet with data from September 2009.

 

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for your enquiry.

Please find attached an excel spreadsheet which should provide you with the total number of registered and SORN’d (Statuary Off-Road Notification) vehicles in Great Britain which are Peugeot 205 GTI’s.

If you would like any further information on this Make and Model, I would recommend that you get in touch with DVLA’s business agents whom should be able to undertake any analysis that you may require. Their contact details can be viewed using the web link below:

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/actio...emId=1082032477

Please note that they normally charge for such requests.

Please do not hesitate to contact me should you require any further information.

Best wishes,

Osman Beg

Vehicles Licensing Statistics

Statistics Travel

Department for Transport

Great Minster House

Phone No: 020 7944 3556

 

Spreadsheet:

 

Currently licensed vehicles as end of September 2009

 

 

Make Model Total

PEUGEOT 205 GTI 3,954

PEUGEOT 205 GTI AUTO 5

PEUGEOT 205 GTI CABRIO AUTO 1

 

 

 

Currently SORN'd vehicles as end of September 2009

 

 

Make Model Total

PEUGEOT 205 GTI 3,059

PEUGEOT 205 GTI AUTO 1

PEUGEOT 205 GTI CABRIO AUTO 1

 

SO LOOK AFTER YOUR 205 GTI'S FOLKS THERE AINT MANY LEFT NOW!!!

 

(sorry if this is common knowledge or a repost)

 

Andy

[welshpug 1,657]

pretty much 50/50 on the road or off the road!

[DrSarty 90 1 Cars]

Do people SORN their track only cars?

[wildejon 7]

News to me. Maybe I'll turn into Baz and own a few more...

The prospect of never owning one scares me!

[AJA_GTi 0]

Do people SORN their track only cars?

 

Thats what I thought as there must be a lot that are track/ rally only about...

[welshpug 1,657]

Do people SORN their track only cars?

 

 

you have to, or the DVLA will send you a fine

 

unless they were off the road well before sorn came into effect, then they'll be off the radar so to speak.

 

Rally cars all have to be road legal, i.e taxed (and MOT'd) unless of course they are historic and tax free, but they still need to display a current disc and the SORN rules still apply to them.

Edited March 9, 2010 by welshpug

[DrSarty 90 1 Cars]

Well this forum has 4,896 members, although not all in this country.

 

With the track-only cars SORN'd I think WE have a lot of these covered. Several of us have a couple...

[MrG 3]

I sorn mine over the winter and retax it ready for the new year in or around end of March. Normally 6 mths and then its tucked away again.

 

But there must also be quite a number that are untaxed/unsorned.

 

Interesting to see how few auto GTI's are running/sorned. I reckon most of that lot have been on ebay over the past year or so!

[AJA_GTi 0]

Estimated UK population is currently circa 62,000,000 so if you are running a GTi at the moment you are 1 in 15,500 people!!

 

GOD I LOVE STATISTICS!!!

[Batfink 201]

hmmm

This makes me think I should be keeping my sorrento.

[kate205gti 4]

PEUGEOT 205 GTI 3,058 hopefully next month! mines been SORN'd for 18 months now

[harley 0]

Gives me a sense of pride knowing that I own one and that it gets used every day.

[martyn180 9]

in psooc torque mag, they had a breakdown of colours/engine sizes as well think it was last quarter mag.

Will dig out think there is even 10,000cc version apparently regsitered!!

May be a psooc commitee member may allow it to be posted up in this thread as well.

[Baz 421]

I've gotten rid of a few in the last week, but gained another!

 

I too can't ever not see me having one at least in my life tbh!

[badj 0]

Well this forum has 4,896 members, although not all in this country.

 

With the track-only cars SORN'd I think WE have a lot of these covered. Several of us have a couple...

 

Not all of us own a GTi registered model though

I'd guess at 20% of those members are owners of a lower spec model, and bearing in mind any inactive users might have sold them to other members or scrapped them since

 

Statistically speaking

Edited March 9, 2010 by badj

[Tesstuff 222]

Not all of us own a GTi registered model though

I'd guess at 20% of those members are owners of a lower spec model,

 

...and 0.1% of us own a higher model seeing as the Gentry cost more than a Gti new

[RHULPUG 0]

...and 0.1% of us own a higher model seeing as the Gentry cost more than a Gti new

 

Agreed that it's certainly a 'higher' model now with the extra 16valves!

[Pugnut 9 1 Cars]

wow, they are pretty rare up here nowadays, but i didn't think it was that low

 

mines been sorned for 6 years !!

[mikebullock84 0]

67% of the general public dont believe in statistics!

[MerlinGTI 3]

Interesting!

[mr_exe 1]

I sorn mine over the winter and retax it ready for the new year in or around end of March. Normally 6 mths and then its tucked away again.

 

Thats what I do except I get a years tax and send back what I don't use for a refund, so at the moment ours is one of sorned ones, but it will hitting the roads again at the end of the month.

[Jrod 7]

Mines been taxed for 4 months with no engine.

[AJA_GTi 0]

...and 0.1% of us own a higher model seeing as the Gentry cost more than a Gti new

 

Smarty pants

[steve@cornwall 100]

I guess THE 205 auto cabrio is nosmans!

[Cameron 16]

Nice work getting the statistics, really interesting!