Ebro
Nissan · on record 1994 to 2025
The Nissan Ebro is a van, so its place in the register reflects working or specialist vehicle use rather than the ordinary passenger car market. Nissan's commercial range has served delivery, trade and conversion users, with some chassis also adapted as minibuses, campers or specialist bodies. A Ebro can remain useful well beyond its first operator, so body condition, continued purpose and specialist support increasingly determine whether it stays in service.
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
2025 census
0.2% of the peak fleet remains licensed
peak 514 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.
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, 2017 to 2025.
| Failure reason | Failures | Share of all tests |
|---|---|---|
| Significant brake effort recorded with no brake applied indicating a binding brake | 7 | 41.2% |
| A direction indicator lamp missing, inoperative | 4 | 23.5% |
| A lamp missing, inoperative | 4 | 23.5% |
| The aim of a headlamp is not within limits laid down in the requirements | 4 | 23.5% |
| Headlamp reflector or lens seriously defective or missing | 4 | 23.5% |
| Brakes imbalance across an axle such that the braking effort from any wheel is less than 70% of the maximum effort recorded from the other wheel on the same axle. | 3 | 17.6% |
| The aim of a headlamp is not within limits laid down in the requirements | 2 | 11.8% |
| Front or rear fog lamp switch inoperative or not operating in accordance with the requirements | 2 | 11.8% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2017 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.
Where the Ebro 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 |
|---|---|---|
| TN | 1 | 100% |
How this record was calculated
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.