Driving rare vehicles

[gordonsalive]

We do drive some pretty rare motors around here, porsches? ferraris? lambos? NAH!! check the figures below (pinched it from the general gassing forum!)

[PipeNslippers]

gordonsalive said:

We do drive some pretty rare motors around here, porsches? ferraris? lambos? NAH!! check the figures below (pinched it from the general gassing forum!)

Great post..

They are rare, but I am also surprised by how many have lasted the journey...

[DonkeyApple]

That's quite an attrition rate when you look at the 2000 Q4 Chimp numbers to Q4 2010, 4100 down to 2800. Looks to be about 25% gone? And seems to be a similar decline across the other models.

[slimtater]

It looks like Q1 and Q4 are the winter months. Perhaps the variance (reduction) in these periods is down to vehicles being SORN'd?

[Barkychoc]

Interesting - although my V8S was registered as a 290S when I bought it - I changed the keeper to me and the V5 came back as a V8S

[extremekiter]

Great post buddy! Thats why my Sag is treated better than my wife!

J for joke!

Justyn

[astonman]

T350Ts seem rarer than Sagaris? Or are there a massive number of unlicensed cars?Actually when you look at the numbers the figure is always low.Have the usual production figures quoted on various posts got it wrong?

[V8 GRF]

SORN figures need adding to those numbers to give the survival rate at any one time and paints a better picture.

[bartesque]

Theres a few TVRs over here in the Channel islands which dont appear on those figures once exported

[Targarama]

Yes, quite a few recent model TVRs have gone abroad in the last year or two.

[900T-R]

I can confirm that there are several times more T-cars over here than the # of cars sold and registered new.

Cerberas, too

[V8 GRF]

astonman said:

T350Ts seem rarer than Sagaris? Or are there a massive number of unlicensed cars?Actually when you look at the numbers the figure is always low.Have the usual production figures quoted on various posts got it wrong?

That number is probably refering to genuine 'Targa' models I guess the closed T350 is one of the missing models?

[garreth64]

The T and the C are both listed separately. The Tuscan is all listed 3 times.

[NCE 61]

garreth64 said:

The Tuscan is all listed 3 times.

MK1, MK2 & MK2S woud tie up with the dates shown. You have to assume MK1 Tuscan S were just registered as Tuscans.

[V8 GRF]

garreth64 said:

The T and the C are both listed separately. The Tuscan is all listed 3 times.

Doh so it is... I was right about it being model specific though

[DonkeyApple]

I'm not fully convinced of this data though.

During Q2 & 3, high season of last year there wer only 12/14 Sags on British roads?

[V8 GRF]

DonkeyApple said:

I'm not fully convinced of this data though.

During Q2 & 3, high season of last year there wer only 12/14 Sags on British roads?

You're reading the wrong table, that's the number of cars on SORN not taxed.

The top table is the taxed cars.

[DonkeyApple]

V8 GRF said:

DonkeyApple said:

I'm not fully convinced of this data though.

During Q2 & 3, high season of last year there wer only 12/14 Sags on British roads?

You're reading the wrong table, that's the number of cars on SORN not taxed.

The top table is the taxed cars.

Thanks for pointing out the blatantly obvious again

However, I refuse to believe that only a few Wedgies were SORN. I've been in that forum and got the impression that nearly all of them were non runners.

[900T-R]

DonkeyApple said:

However, I refuse to believe that only a few Wedgies were SORN. I've been in that forum and got the impression that nearly all of them were non runners.

Must be the eternal optimism of their owners - 'I'll leave it taxed, I'm sure I'll have it sorted by next weekend. Or the weekend after that, at worst..."

[DonkeyApple]

900T-R said:

DonkeyApple said:

However, I refuse to believe that only a few Wedgies were SORN. I've been in that forum and got the impression that nearly all of them were non runners.

Must be the eternal optimism of their owners - 'I'll leave it taxed, I'm sure I'll have it sorted by next weekend. Or the weekend after that, at worst..."

I don't think they bought them to drive them, I have a suspicion that many Wedgies are like James Caan in Misery.