1100
Fiat · on record 1994 to 2025
The Fiat 1100 was one of the marque's central postwar family cars, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, when compact four door saloons were bringing car ownership to a much wider public. The 1100 combined modest dimensions with practical seating, simple mechanicals and numerous saloon, estate and sporting derivatives. Surviving British examples are now mainly enthusiast cars, valued for their place in everyday Italian motoring history rather than for rarity alone.
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
2025 census
90.5% of the peak fleet remains licensed
peak 21 in 2021 · −0 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.
At the average decline recorded over the latest five years, the licensed fleet would reach zero around 2072.
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 2025.
| Failure reason | Failures | Share of all tests |
|---|---|---|
| Indicator or hazard warning switch does not operate in accordance with the requirements | 4 | 5.7% |
| Vehicle structure corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is seriously reduced | 3 | 4.3% |
| Windscreen washers not working or not providing sufficient fluid to clear the windscreen | 3 | 4.3% |
| A lamp missing, inoperative | 3 | 4.3% |
| Indicator or hazard warning switch inoperative | 3 | 4.3% |
| Significant brake effort recorded with no brake applied indicating a binding brake | 3 | 4.3% |
| Service brake efficiency below minimum requirement | 3 | 4.3% |
| Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen | 3 | 4.3% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2006 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.
Where the 1100 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 |
|---|---|---|
| TQ | 2 | 50% |
| CF | 1 | 100% |
| WA | 1 | 100% |
| SN | 1 | 100% |
How this record was calculated
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.