LTD
Ford · on record 1994 to 2025
The Ford Ltd is a large American Ford saloon name used across several generations, with British registrations mainly representing imports rather than normal UK dealer cars. The Ltd appealed to private and company buyers seeking greater comfort, status and long distance ability than the marque's smaller mainstream models. Older Ltd examples increasingly depend on values, specialist servicing and owner commitment, because complex luxury cars are preserved on very different terms from ordinary family transport.
STABLE
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
16
licensed vehicles
2025 census
2025 census
88.9% of the peak fleet remains licensed
8
declared SORN
total surviving
peak 18 in 2019 · 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, 2005 to 2024.
Pass rate by year
| Failure reason | Failures | Share of all tests |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 6 | 3.8% |
| 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 | 3.2% |
| An obligatory lamp missing, insecure, obviously incorrectly positioned or does not face to the front or rear as appropriate | 4 | 2.5% |
| Little or no braking effort is recorded from the brake on any wheel, indicating clearly that the brake is not functioning correctly | 4 | 2.5% |
| The windscreen washers do not provide enough liquid to clear the windscreen in conjunction with the wiper(s) | 4 | 2.5% |
| A direction indicator shows light of an incorrect colour | 4 | 2.5% |
| Lamp emitted colour, position or intensity not in accordance with the requirements | 4 | 2.5% |
| Deliberate modification which significantly reduces the original strength, excessive corrosion, severe distortion, a fracture or an inadequate repair of a load bearing member or its supporting structure or panelling within 30 cms of a seat belt ancho | 3 | 1.9% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2005 to 2024. Advisories are excluded.
Where the LTD 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 |
|---|---|---|
| HU | 6 | 100% |
How this record was calculated
LATEST CENSUS2025
POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual
HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013
MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2024
FAMILY DEFINITIONFORD LTD
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.