11
Renault · on record 1994 to 2025
The Renault 11 was the hatchback companion to the Renault 9, giving the early 1980s compact family range a more practical 5 door body. The 11 appealed mainly to buyers seeking a more sporting or distinctive choice than the maker's ordinary range. The 11 has a stronger enthusiast pull than an ordinary car of its age, so originality, specialist support and condition increasingly influence which examples remain.
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
2025 census
0.1% of the peak fleet remains licensed
peak 64,954 in 1994 · −1 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 2090.
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.
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.
| Failure reason | Failures | Share of all tests |
|---|---|---|
| Leaking brake pipe or connection on a hydraulic system | 3 | 9.7% |
| Amalgamation of failures for all headlamp testers | 2 | 6.5% |
| A brake disc or drum in such a condition that it is seriously weakened or insecure | 2 | 6.5% |
| A low braking effort is recorded from the parking brake on any wheel, indicating clearly that the brake is not functioning correctly | 2 | 6.5% |
| Flexible brake hose slightly damaged, chafed or twisted | 2 | 6.5% |
| A direction indicator missing, insecure, obviously incorrectly positioned or does not face to the front, rear or side as appropriate | 2 | 6.5% |
| Windscreen washers not working or not providing sufficient fluid to clear the windscreen | 1 | 3.2% |
| Significant braking effort recorded on a road wheel, even though the brake is not applied, indicating that a brake is binding | 1 | 3.2% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2006 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.
Where the 11 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 |
|---|---|---|
| IP | 1 | 100% |
| CW | 1 | 100% |
| CM | 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.