Sprint

Alfa Romeo · on record 1994 to 2025

The Alfa Romeo Sprint was a compact 3 door coupe developed from the Alfasud, sharing its front wheel drive layout and boxer engines beneath a lower Giugiaro styled body. It offered practical rear seating while giving the small Alfa range a much more sporting appearance. Production continued into the Alfa 33 era, and surviving Sprints now appeal strongly to enthusiasts of the marque's distinctive flat 4 engine period.

GROWING

Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.

95 licensed vehicles
2025 census

7.3% of the peak fleet remains licensed PEAK PREDATES RECORDS

147

declared SORN

total surviving

peak 1,296 in 1994 · +3 vehicles a year, five year trend

Population history

Licensed and SORN vehicles at each census. The filters below apply to the family population, MOT and registration figures. They do not alter the generation history above.

Licensed SORN Latest census observation SOURCE DVLA VEH0120 / VEH0220

Inside the surviving fleet

AutoCensus parses every DVLA variant description, so the fleet can be read by fuel and specification rather than as one number.

First registrations by year

When surviving examples first joined the British fleet.

Recent UK first registrations

This family is no longer sold new. These figures are imports and historic vehicles joining the British register for the first time.

MOT reliability

DVSA test results for this family, 2005 to 2025.

Pass rate by year

Failure reason	Failures	Share of all tests
The windscreen washers do not provide enough liquid to clear the windscreen in conjunction with the wiper(s)	18	3.0%
Deliberate modification which significantly reduces the original strength, excessive corrosion, severe distortion, a fracture or an inadequate repair of a load bearing member or its supporting structure or supporting panelling within 30cm of any sub-	14	2.3%
Emissions levels exceed default limits	14	2.3%
Windscreen washers not working or not providing sufficient fluid to clear the windscreen	14	2.3%
A battery insecure but not likely to fall from carrier	13	2.2%
The calculated parking brake efficiency is too low	12	2.0%
A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot severely deteriorated	12	2.0%
The strength or continuity of the load bearing structure within 30cm of any sub-frame, spring or suspension component mounting (a 'prescribed area') is significantly reduced or inadequately repaired	12	2.0%

Counted across every recorded test, 2005 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.

Where the Sprint remains

Based on MOT test locations, 2025. Test location is a proxy: a vehicle is counted where it was last tested, not where it is kept.

Postcode area	Vehicles tested	Pass rate
G	4	50%
SO	2	50%
PE	2	100%
SY	2	50%
IP	2	50%
NG	2	50%
KT	2	50%
RG	2	100%
W	1	100%
DG	1	100%

How this record was calculated

LATEST CENSUS2025

POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual

HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013

MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2025

FAMILY DEFINITIONALFA ROMEO SPRINT

PROCESSED20 Sep 2026

Full methodology

Population history combines DVLA VEH0120 Q4 census observations through 2013 with the annual VEH0220 census from 2014 onward. Figures before 2014 cover Great Britain only. Historical VEH0120 is used only when its overlapping UK observations reconcile to the current canonical family definition. Vehicles are grouped into this family using the DVLA GenModel together with durable routing rules for known inconsistencies.

Variant figures are parsed from raw DVLA model descriptions and the original string is always retained. Configuration is only assigned where the model description explicitly identifies it; a blank configuration is not treated as a two door Wrangler. Blank transmission fields are shown as manual because DVLA records the field for automatic vehicles.

MOT figures count tests, not vehicles, and geographic figures count each vehicle at its most recent test location. The decline projection is a straight line fitted to the latest five years and is illustrative only.