Spacerunner

Mitsubishi · on record 1996 to 2025

The Mitsubishi Spacerunner is an alternative registration spelling of Mitsubishi's Space Runner compact MPV, preserving the same practical family model under compressed wording. Buyers placed the Spacerunner toward the more expensive end of the range, where cabin quality, refinement and status mattered as much as basic transport. Older Spacerunner examples increasingly depend on values, specialist servicing and owner commitment, because complex luxury cars are preserved on very different terms from ordinary family transport.

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED

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

8 licensed vehicles
2025 census

1.5% of the peak fleet remains licensed

declared SORN

total surviving

peak 552 in 2000 · −4 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 2026.

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 2014.

Pass rate by year

Failure reason	Failures	Share of all tests
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	4	10.5%
A brake lining or pad insecure or less than 1.5mm thick at any point	3	7.9%
A rear registration plate lamp with any lamp not working	3	7.9%
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	5.3%
The beam image kick up is to the offside	2	5.3%
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	1	2.6%
An obligatory mirror or indirect vision device missing or insecure.	1	2.6%
Evidence of severe brake grabbing or judder as the service brake is applied	1	2.6%

Counted across every recorded test, 2005 to 2014. Advisories are excluded.

Where the Spacerunner remains

Based on MOT test locations, 2014. 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
RG	1	100%

How this record was calculated

LATEST CENSUS2025

POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual

HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013

MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2014

FAMILY DEFINITIONMITSUBISHI SPACERUNNER

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.