Topolino
Fiat · on record 2025 to 2025
Topolino has two very different meanings in Fiat history. It was the affectionate name given to the tiny original Fiat 500 launched in 1936, but Fiat revived the name in the 2020s for a very small electric quadricycle intended for short urban journeys rather than conventional car use. A register entry carrying only Topolino therefore needs period and vehicle details to interpret correctly, because the same word can describe either an important historic car or a modern light electric vehicle.
STABLE
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
1
licensed vehicles
2025 census
2025 census
100.0% of the peak fleet remains licensed
0
declared SORN
total surviving
peak 1 in 2025 · 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.
Licensed
SORN
Latest census observation
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.
Pass rate by year
| Failure reason | Failures | Share of all tests |
|---|---|---|
| An obligatory headlamp inoperative, excessively damaged or deteriorated or has a product on the lens or light source so that the light output is well below that required to illuminate the road ahead | 3 | 4.8% |
| Excessive play in king pin and/or bush such that it is likely to adversely affect the steering of the vehicle | 2 | 3.2% |
| A leak in any part of a braking system | 2 | 3.2% |
| The calculated parking brake efficiency is too low | 2 | 3.2% |
| A stop lamp inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating | 2 | 3.2% |
| A direction indicator inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating | 2 | 3.2% |
| A driver†s or front passenger's door cannot be opened from both inside and outside the vehicle using the relevant control in each case | 2 | 3.2% |
| A rear registration plate lamp with any lamp not working | 2 | 3.2% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2006 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.
Where the Topolino 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 |
|---|---|---|
| GU | 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 DEFINITIONFIAT TOPOLINO
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.