1300

Honda · on record 1994 to 2025

The Honda 1300 was an early front drive family car from the late 1960s, unusual for its air cooled engine and technically ambitious design before the Civic established Honda's mainstream car business. The 1300 appealed mainly to buyers seeking a more sporting or distinctive choice than the maker's ordinary range. As the 1300 ages, condition, continued usefulness and the strength of owner interest increasingly determine which examples remain rather than its original position in the new car market.

GROWING

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

5 licensed vehicles
2025 census

13.9% of the peak fleet remains licensed PEAK PREDATES RECORDS

declared SORN

total surviving

peak 36 in 1994 · +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 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.

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, 2006 to 2025.

Pass rate by year

Failure reason	Failures	Share of all tests
Headlamp reflector or lens slightly defective	4	33.3%
Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen	2	16.7%
A wiper blade insecure, missing or in such a condition that it does not clear the windscreen effectively to give the driver an adequate view of the road (through the windscreen) to the left and right sides of the vehicle, as well as to the front	2	16.7%
A suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn	2	16.7%
A suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc	2	16.7%
The grooves of the tread pattern are not at least 1.6mm throughout a continuous band comprising the central three-quarters of the breadth of tread, and round the entire outer circumference of the tyre	2	16.7%
A flexible brake hose excessively chafed, damaged or deteriorated	2	16.7%
Windscreen washers not working or not providing sufficient fluid to clear the windscreen	2	16.7%

Counted across every recorded test, 2006 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.

Where the 1300 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
BN	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 DEFINITIONHONDA 1300

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.