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F150

Ford · on record 2002 to 2025

The F150 is recorded under Ford, but it is a pickup whose ownership pattern is governed by commercial or specialist use. This Ford is a load carrying pickup rather than a conventional passenger car, combining an open cargo bed with working vehicle engineering and, on many versions, multi seat cab accommodation. Later life for the F150 depends strongly on whether its working or specialist role still justifies maintenance once normal fleet replacement would have removed an equivalent vehicle.

GROWING

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

193 licensed vehicles
2025 census

100.0% of the peak fleet remains licensed

82
declared SORN
 
total surviving

peak 193 in 2025  ·  +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 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.

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, 2005 to 2025.

 
Pass rate by year
Failure reason Failures Share of all tests
A mandatory rear fog lamp inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating 238 1.9%
A direction indicator shows light of an incorrect colour 166 1.4%
A rigid brake pipe excessively chafed, corroded or damaged 154 1.3%
A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources 149 1.2%
Windscreen or window damaged or seriously discoloured but not adversely affecting driver's view 139 1.1%
The calculated parking brake efficiency is too low 127 1.0%
An obligatory rear fog lamp missing, or a front or rear fog lamp inoperative 126 1.0%
A suspension joint dust cover severely deteriorated 114 0.9%

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

Where the F150 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
CM 35 83%
IP 28 82%
PE 25 76%
NN 21 71%
RG 18 72%
TN 17 82%
NR 15 67%
B 15 93%
DE 15 73%
CF 13 85%
CT 13 85%
S 12 100%
MK 12 67%
CO 12 92%
SS 12 92%
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How this record was calculated

LATEST CENSUS2025
POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual
HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013
MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2025
FAMILY DEFINITIONFORD F150
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.