L200

Mitsubishi · on record 1994 to 2025

The Mitsubishi L200 is a pickup, so its place in the register reflects working or specialist vehicle use rather than the ordinary passenger car market. The L200 is Mitsubishi's established 1 tonne pickup, widely used for work, towing and leisure in single and double cab forms. A L200 can remain useful well beyond its first operator, so body condition, continued purpose and specialist support increasingly determine whether it stays in service.

DECLINING

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

78,567 licensed vehicles
2025 census

71.2% of the peak fleet remains licensed

26,766

declared SORN

total surviving

peak 110,393 in 2020 · −7,436 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

At the average decline recorded over the latest five years, the licensed fleet would reach zero around 2035.

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, 2005 to 2025.

Pass rate by year

Failure reason	Failures	Share of all tests
Brake pipe damaged or excessively corroded	41,156	3.5%
A rigid brake pipe excessively chafed, corroded or damaged	39,176	3.3%
A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources	26,432	2.2%
Windscreen or window damaged or seriously discoloured but not adversely affecting driver's view	21,572	1.8%
A lamp missing, inoperative	20,607	1.8%
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	19,025	1.6%
An obligatory rear fog lamp missing, or a front or rear fog lamp inoperative	18,659	1.6%
A cracked or fractured leaf, or one which is permanently distorted due to damage or so deteriorated that it is seriously weakened	17,005	1.4%

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

Where the L200 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
EX	2,476	73%
SA	2,119	79%
LL	1,840	78%
SY	1,776	78%
GL	1,640	75%
AB	1,619	74%
PE	1,409	79%
S	1,321	82%
YO	1,306	75%
NE	1,179	84%
OX	1,174	79%
PL	1,158	73%
CF	1,149	77%
TN	1,143	81%
NR	1,141	79%
B	1,137	83%
HR	1,128	77%
IV	1,083	78%
TA	1,041	76%
NG	1,032	81%
DL	1,028	80%
DN	980	81%
NN	942	80%
PO	924	75%
BS	924	77%
IP	922	77%
CV	909	83%
NP	873	80%
CA	869	78%
LE	868	80%
ST	864	79%
ME	840	84%
TD	816	82%
DE	801	84%
KY	794	76%
SN	766	79%
DG	761	78%
WR	750	78%
BH	748	79%
GU	731	78%
G	721	83%
DY	721	78%
BA	719	74%
LA	702	79%
SO	700	79%
RG	698	80%
CO	691	80%
EH	688	79%
PR	681	81%
CM	678	84%
BN	662	74%
TQ	661	71%
PH	635	75%
KA	623	76%
CH	621	79%
DT	598	77%
TR	578	71%
LN	575	76%
DD	574	72%
RH	570	79%
MK	559	84%
BD	546	82%
TS	533	81%
LS	531	80%
HU	521	75%
BB	517	85%
PA	512	81%
LD	512	75%
WF	509	83%
CW	495	80%
SP	491	75%
HP	473	84%
CB	469	82%
CT	461	78%
WA	452	85%
SK	445	77%
SG	443	83%
WS	432	80%
WV	419	79%
ML	384	79%
TF	383	77%
FK	376	78%
DH	359	82%
M	358	86%
SS	352	86%
KW	330	79%
L	326	82%
OL	297	84%
HG	267	78%
SL	265	89%
HX	262	79%
HD	258	79%
BL	257	81%
LU	232	89%
WN	227	79%
KT	222	82%
DA	220	90%
RM	217	90%
HS	200	81%
FY	183	79%
ZE	178	81%
EN	169	89%
SR	144	77%
TW	139	88%
AL	130	84%
CR	126	91%
UB	123	92%
WD	122	75%
E	116	90%
SE	100	90%
NW	89	84%
N	86	91%
BR	74	86%
HA	73	88%
IG	50	94%
SM	40	88%
SW	37	89%
W	15	87%

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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 DEFINITIONMITSUBISHI L200

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.