300C

Chrysler · on record 2004 to 2025

The Chrysler 300C was a large rear wheel drive saloon and estate sold in Britain with striking square styling, diesel or V8 petrol engines and generous equipment. It offered an American alternative to German executive cars, while the estate shared roots with the Dodge Magnum. The diesel made it viable for long distance users, and V8 versions developed enthusiast appeal that helps preserve them more strongly than ordinary luxury saloons.

DECLINING

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

3,654 licensed vehicles
2025 census

44.0% of the peak fleet remains licensed

1,813

declared SORN

total surviving

peak 8,305 in 2014 · −544 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

At the average decline recorded over the latest five years, the licensed fleet would reach zero around 2031.

Illustrative projection only; vehicle populations rarely decline linearly. Late fleets typically flatten as surviving examples enter preservation.

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.

New registrations

Vehicles first registered each year. A fleet still being sold shows here; a finished one shows only imports.

MOT reliability

DVSA test results for this family, 2006 to 2024.

Pass rate by year

Failure reason	Failures	Share of all tests
The calculated parking brake efficiency is too low	34	15.9%
A low braking effort is recorded from the parking brake on any wheel, indicating clearly that the brake is not functioning correctly	27	12.6%
Excessive play in a ball joint	13	6.1%
An obligatory lamp inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating	9	4.2%
Any deliberate modification, excessive corrosion, damage, cracks or inadequate repair of a load bearing body or chassis member which seriously affects its strength within 30cm of the body mountings	9	4.2%
Amalgamation of failures for all headlamp testers	8	3.7%
A rear registration plate lamp with any lamp not working	8	3.7%
A mandatory rear fog lamp inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating	5	2.3%

Counted across every recorded test, 2006 to 2024. Advisories are excluded.

Where the 300C remains

Based on MOT test locations, 2024. 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
PO	1	100%

How this record was calculated

LATEST CENSUS2025

POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual

HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013

MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2024

FAMILY DEFINITIONCHRYSLER 300C

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.