Viper
Chrysler · on record 1994 to 2025
The Chrysler Viper label refers to the V10 powered American sports car more commonly sold under Dodge branding in later years. Early European and UK records can use Chrysler as the make, reflecting group marketing conventions. It is a low, rear wheel drive 2 seat performance car with little emphasis on refinement. Rarity, huge engine character and strong enthusiast demand give surviving Vipers far greater preservation prospects than ordinary Chrysler models.
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
8
licensed vehicles
2025 census
2025 census
14.8% of the peak fleet remains licensed
36
declared SORN
total surviving
peak 54 in 2000 · −2 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
At the average decline recorded over the latest five years, the licensed fleet would reach zero around 2029.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| A ball joint dust cover missing or excessively damaged, deteriorated or insecure to the extent that it would no longer prevent the ingress of dirt etc | 17 | 3.8% |
| A suspension joint dust cover severely deteriorated | 13 | 2.9% |
| A ball joint dust cover missing or excessively damaged, deteriorated or insecure to the extent that it would no longer prevent the ingress of dirt etc | 8 | 1.8% |
| A suspension joint dust cover severely deteriorated | 6 | 1.4% |
| Amalgamation of failures for all headlamp testers | 6 | 1.4% |
| An obligatory lamp shows a light other than red to the rear and white to the front (or yellow if a front position lamp is incorporated in a yellow headlamp) | 5 | 1.1% |
| A stop lamp inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating | 5 | 1.1% |
| A coil spring incomplete, cracked or fractured | 5 | 1.1% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2005 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.
Where the Viper 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DA | 2 | 50% |
| SS | 1 | 100% |
| LA | 1 | 100% |
| ST | 1 | 100% |
| PO | 1 | 100% |
| EX | 1 | 100% |
| GU | 1 | 100% |
| TW | 1 | 100% |
| WR | 1 | 100% |
| BA | 1 | 100% |
| SL | 1 | 100% |
| G | 1 | 100% |
| BD | 1 | 100% |
| KT | 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 DEFINITIONCHRYSLER VIPER
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.