25v6turbo Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Q2 2017 figures have just been released and I wanted to ask a question.The Renault Safrane V6 RXE is showing 2 taxed with 11 SORN,but when you look at the years 1993 is 0,1994 is 1(mine)and 1995 is 0.So shouldn,t that be 1 taxed not 2?not sure how the figures came to 2,nothing under new regs either,odd?? oldcars 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatharris Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 The figures on that site are about as reliable as the man down the pub. Cavcraft, D Spares & Tyres and doubleyeller 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacquer Peel Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 More reliable than the man down the pub but you're relying on the DVLA and new car dealer input here. flat4alfa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
25v6turbo Posted October 3, 2017 Author Share Posted October 3, 2017 Yep DVLA input.....just noticed there is a V6 RT registered in 2005!,strange as they old sold them for a year in the U.K 93/94. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 As efficient as Parker's Guide. Eddie Honda 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcars Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Only 136 Shuma's like mine left now. That its it up to just over scrap value at a guess. Love how rare my old car is getting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Yep DVLA input.....just noticed there is a V6 RT registered in 2005!,strange as they old sold them for a year in the U.K 93/94.I don't know how exactly it works, but maybe it was an import? I guess strictly speaking it's a new registration for the DVLA. Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSdriver Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Yep DVLA input.....just noticed there is a V6 RT registered in 2005!,strange as they old sold them for a year in the U.K 93/94.That'll be an imported used car so probably LHD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 It's just a database dump, there's zero human checking going off so if the data says 0+1=2 then that's what the site says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 I wish there was a similar site here in Australia, all we have to go on is club registers and word of mouth! egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Is it entirely composed from DVLA records or is there any kind of organised updating assistance? When I got my first ever computerised logbook (for a Mk1 Austin Mini) it proclaimed it to be an Austin A30 Seven. Didn't bother to update it as I had already wrapped it around a bus shelter by then (terminal understeer and inexperience) but I wonder if somebody claims to have the "only" Allegro 1300DL Auto left just because its the only one so described by DVLA? Registration records don't normally go into such detail, surely, so are some people making specific updates to DVLA? With regard to V5 accuracy I once saw a reference to somebody getting a logbook back for a chain-drive Scammell showing it as a "2 axle Moped" but that's probably an extreme case...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMC Rebel Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 None of my AMCs appear at all in any form on HML - not does my Chevrolet - this is despite all of them being on the DVLA site and having been registered here (UK) and in the country from brand new. It's not the "fault" of HML but the figures are very unreliable - not least because of a lack of rigour when the data was being entered in the first place. mercrocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisbon_road Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Since the advent of the 'New' Vauxhall Viva, the data is much harder to interpret for Vauxhall Viva searches. People just don't think of stuff like that when they launch a new car, do they? mercrocker, egg and AMC Rebel 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 When I got my first ever computerised logbook (for a Mk1 Austin Mini) it proclaimed it to be an Austin A30 Seven. I wonder if somebody claims to have the "only" Allegro 1300DL Auto left just because its the only one so described by DVLA? For many years the supplying dealer wrote what he wanted on the day onto the registration form and it went into the database as his model definition. Sir Snipes, colnerov and mercrocker 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisbon_road Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 You can download the data yourself if you want to play with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Always remember there is the 'model missing' category which if analysed would probably explain a lot of the inaccuracies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 The raw data is freely available here if you want to process it yourself: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vehicles-statistics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayW Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Yep DVLA input.....just noticed there is a V6 RT registered in 2005!,strange as they old sold them for a year in the U.K 93/94.New registrations include imports made in that year I believe. So it is possible to see a new registration of a long forgotten model. But otherwise the figures are about as reliable as an MP's promise. My Jaguar XJ6 Sovereign 4.0 LWB is simply registered as a "Jaguar" - that's it, nothing else, even though the is a correct category for the full moniker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMC Rebel Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Is it entirely composed from DVLA records or is there any kind of organised updating assistance? When I got my first ever computerised logbook (for a Mk1 Austin Mini) it proclaimed it to be an Austin A30 Seven. Didn't bother to update it as I had already wrapped it around a bus shelter by then (terminal understeer and inexperience) but I wonder if somebody claims to have the "only" Allegro 1300DL Auto left just because its the only one so described by DVLA? Registration records don't normally go into such detail, surely, so are some people making specific updates to DVLA? With regard to V5 accuracy I once saw a reference to somebody getting a logbook back for a chain-drive Scammell showing it as a "2 axle Moped" but that's probably an extreme case......My Ma’s 1960 Mini was an Austin Seven - said so on the back as did all the early ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Mine was a Seven too.....Wasn't no A30, though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheggers Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 If you torture data hard enough it will tell you anything you want to hear Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk pshome and Eddie Honda 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren t claim Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 I'm pretty happy that at least the DVLA are making an effort by sharing what data they have. Cheggers and flat4alfa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 It will give you an indication of numbers e.g. there are more MGB’s than Vauxhall Victors about, but I would take the individual model numbers with more than a pinch of salt. The newer cars are probably more accurate as things like model, spec etc run off the VIN plate rather than a bored salesman typing something on a Friday afternoon before he goes to the pub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltox Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 The raw data is freely available here if you want to process it yourself: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vehicles-statisticsInteresting* stuff - I might download a couple of years worth and stick it in Splunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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